Blogged: sleep-pc: a .NET Native AOT tool to make Windows sleep after a timeout andrewlock.net/sleep-pc-a-d... In this post I describe a small native AOT .NET tool that I built to force a Windows PC to go to sleep after a timer expires #dotnet

As requested, I published an article about how the UI profiler works: minidump.net/measuring-ui... It allows me to measure the responsiveness of Visual Studio when running with ReSharper, in various conditions. I also made the source code available on github: github.com/kevingosse/U...

.NET STS releases are now supported for 2 years instead of 18 months starting with .NET 9 (the current STS). STS releases now go out-of-support on the same day as the previous LTS release. Upgrading to an STS release will no longer cause you to lose support! devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotne...

Supporting platform-specific .NET 10 tools on old .NET SDKs Exploring the .NET 10 preview - Part 8 andrewlock.net/exploring-do... In this post I look at the advantages, trade-offs, and implications of the new platform-specific .NET tool feature added in .NET 10 and how to support old SDKs #dotnet

Blogged: Packaging self-contained and native AOT .NET tools for NuGet - Exploring the .NET 10 preview - Part 7 andrewlock.net/exploring-do... This post looks at the new support for platform-specific .NET tools that lets you pack tools as self-contained or Native AOT packages #dotnet

If you're using github.com/VerifyTests/..., e.g. to protect your library's public API, also check out plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/17240... created by Mathias Koch.

Great post! Something I think missed (because it is not correctly documented😀) is `dotnet tool install --allow-roll-forward`. You can use this when installing a tool to force it to allow roll forward, even if the tool itself doesn't. Unfortunately I can't recall which SDK introduced it.

Blogged: Using and authoring .NET tools andrewlock.net/using-and-au... In this post I describe some of the complexities around authoring .NET tools, specifically around supporting multiple .NET runtimes and testing in CI #dotnet

Blogged: Fixing an old .NET Core native library loading issue on Alpine andrewlock.net/fixing-an-ol... In this post I walk through the process of solving a native library loading issue on alpine with an old .NET runtime, showing the steps we took and the solution #dotnet

Running .NET in the browser without Blazor by @andrewlock.bsky.social andrewlock.net/running-dotn... #aspnetcore #blazor

Blogged: Converting an xUnit test project to TUnit andrewlock.net/converting-a... In this post I discuss the new TUnit testing framework, why I ported one of my libraries to use it instead of xUnit and related issues I had to deal with #dotnet #testing

Blogged: Reset Cookies and force new sign-in using ASP.NET Core Identity damienbod.com/2025/08/18/r... #aspnetcore #identity #iam #cookie #duende #dotnet #net

Redid the way my content engine handled file watchers thanks to this post ( and @maartenballiauw.be, @woodruff.dev , @khalidabuhakmeh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy on @breakpoint.show ). Took the drifter example and tweaked it so that the lifetime of the object is determined by a file watcher.

Andrew Lock explains that .NET 10 preview 6 adds passkey support to ASP.NET Core Identity, enabling passwordless login with WebAuthn in the new Blazor template. via andrewlocknet https://andrewlock.net/exploring-dotnet-10-preview-features-6-passkey-support-for-aspnetcore-identity/

Blogged: Running .NET in the browser without Blazor andrewlock.net/running-dotn... In this post I show how to run .NET in your browser without using Blazor, and instead rely on lower-level abstractions provided by [JSImport] and [JSExport] #dotnet #aspnetcore #wasm #webassembly

A while back, I created "dotnet make" which will invoke your favourite build tool (cake, fake, make, nuke, csproj, fsproj, proj, sln) by convention, regardless of the current working directory in the repository. github.com/patriksvenss...

Blogged: Passkey support for ASP.NET Core identity - Exploring the .NET 10 preview - Part 6 andrewlock.net/exploring-do... In this post I look at the passkey support added to ASP.NET Core Identity and the Web App template, explore how it works, and look at the implementation #dotnet #aspnetcore

Blogged: Issuer and verify credentials using the Swiss Digital identity public beta, ASP.NET Core and .NET Aspire damienbod.com/2025/08/04/i... #aspire #aspnetcore #dotnet #swiyu #e-ID #eid #identity #iam #openid #sd-jwt-vc #vc #did #ssi #OID4VCI #OID4VP

Well, this is insane. I can't access DMs on here unless I "validate my age" with some random company. Who I'm sure won't be a juicy target for a security breach. Or you know, fire up one of dozens of VPNs 🙄

Blogged: Running one-off .NET tools with dnx - Exploring the .NET 10 preview - Part 5 andrewlock.net/exploring-do... In this post I show the new dnx command for running .NET tools without installing them and look at how it works under the hood #dotnet

Just blogged: Migrating to Cake SDK — sharing lessons learned, gotchas, and how to modernize your Cake builds 🍰🔧 www.devlead.se/posts/2025/2... #DotNet #cakebuild #devops

To help reduce the number of UI freezes caused by Resharper, I built an internal tool to measure UI responsiveness. Here, you can see the improvement between the current 2025.1 version (on the left) and the upcoming 2025.2 version (on the right) with out-of-process enabled.

New OSS project: Basic setup to issuer and verify swiyu credentials using the swiyu public beta, ASP.NET Core and Aspire. github.com/swiss-ssi-gr... #aspire #aspnetcore #dotnet #swiyu #e-ID #eid #identity #iam #openid #sd-jwt-vc #vc #did #ssi

As I work on Resharper performance, I learn about limitations of .NET (at least, .NET Framework) that I wasn't aware of. Here, I shaved 1 second of CPU time on startup by... removing a call to Array.Empty<T>.

Blogged: Solving the source generator 'marker attribute' problem in .NET 10 - Exploring the .NET 10 preview - Part 4 andrewlock.net/exploring-do... In this post I discuss a new source generator API AddEmbeddedAttributeDefinition() that makes it easier to embed generated attributes #dotnet #csharp

Urgh, another .NET SDK release, another NuGet audit warning that shouts at me for no good reason 🙄 These audit warning always seem actively hostile to me trying to maintain strong back compat, both in my day job and OSS. Means I just end up turning them all off...

NuGet Package Deletion – Learnings & Prevention #dotnet #nuget github.com/NuGet/Home/d...

The o11ycast I did with @maddymontaquila.net is up. Expect some profanity and (weird for me) some praise about Aspire :D We talked about the massive positive impact that Aspire is having on the .NET community accepting OpenTelemetry as the standard. www.heavybit.com/library/podc...

Blogged: C# 14 extension members; AKA extension everything - Exploring the .NET 10 preview andrewlock.net/exploring-do... In this post I look at the C#14 extension members feature. I show how to convert extension methods to the new syntax and how to add new types of extension #dotnet #csharp

Behind the scenes of dotnet run app.cs by @andrewlock.bsky.social andrewlock.net/exploring-do...

And thanks to @andrewlock.bsky.social for his post on getting HtmlRenderer to work. No way would I have figured that out on my own. andrewlock.net/exploring-th...

I was redoing my blog, yet again, so I threw together a blog post to test it out talking about the Mdazor project I was working on. It's kinda like MDX but with Markdig and Blazor. thirty25.blog/blog/2025/07...

Sneak peak of the new parameter filling experience in the next version of .NET Aspire. Fully code driven and custom to your application. #dotnet #aspire

Critter Stack Futures for the rest of 2025 jeremydmiller.com/2025/07/11/c... RT's and any feedback would be deeply appreciated!

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Blogged: Behind the scenes of dotnet run app.cs - Exploring the .NET 10 preview - Part 2 andrewlock.net/exploring-do... In this post I looks at how the new single-file .NET run experience is implemented inside the .NET SDK, focusing on how the virtual-project file is built. #dotnet #csharp

I really enjoyed participating to the last 2codeOrNot2code, so I'm happy to repeat the experience. This time, we will have some fun with functions, unveiling interesting details about what happens when you call them. If you like to understand how things work, don't miss it!

I just published a blog post about the OpenCLI initiative. I think it's time we had a way to standardize CLI automation! Feedback, suggestions, and thoughts are more than welcome. patriksvensson.se/posts/2025/0...

It's been a ton of work getting here but today I'm excited to announce the official commercial launch of AutoMapper and MediatR! More details here: www.jimmybogard.com/automapper-a... WHEW

Blogged: Implement ASP.NET Core OpenID Connect with Keycloak to implement Level of Authentication (LoA) requirements damienbod.com/2025/07/02/i... #aspnetcore #dotnet #aspire #keycloak #identity #authentication #loa #iam #identity

Blogged: Exploring the features of dotnet run app.cs - Exploring the .NET 10 preview - Part 1 andrewlock.net/exploring-do... In this post I discuss the new single-file .NET run experience, in which you can run a C# file directly, without needing a .csproj project file #dotnet

Did you know about "git absorb"? If not, check out this post by @andrewlock.bsky.social. It's brilliant for those that love a clean history. andrewlock.net/super-chargi...

Blogged: Working with stacked branches in git (Part 2) andrewlock.net/working-with... In this follow up post looking at stacked branches I describe how to handle scenarios such as merging one of the branches in the stack and handling changes to main #dotnet #git

Check it out, folks! Finally ReSharper OoP has been released in our EAP (Early Access Program)! You can be some of the very first developers to try it out. Let us know what you think!

I released v2.0.0 of Silhouette, my library to write .NET profilers in C#. The main change is the addition of IMetadataImport2. There are a few small breaking changes, so I'm embracing semver and bumping the major version number. github.com/kevingosse/S...

Blogged: [Best Practice] Make Application Configuration of ASP.NET Core applications obvious #dotnet #aspnetcore #configuration #bestpractice

Blogged: Working with stacked branches in git (Part 1) andrewlock.net/working-with... In this post I describe why I like to use stacked branches and stacked PRs for larger features, and how I handle making changes to commits in the stack #git #dotnet

Blogged: Handling OpenID Connect error events in ASP.NET Core damienbod.com/2025/06/02/h... #aspnetcore #dotnet #identity #openidconnect #oauth #oidc #iam

Blogged: Converting a Microsoft XNA 3.1 game to MonoGame andrewlock.net/converting-a... In this post I describe how I took a Microsoft XNA 3.1 game from 15 years ago and converted it to use MonoGame on .NET 8 in just a few hours #dotnet #MonoGame @monogame.net

Creating your first sample game with MonoGame | by Andrew Lock. buff.ly/40t9Vnj #gamedev #monogame #dotnet #csharp