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Jun 30, 2026

Claude Skills for .NET: Teach AI to Build Features Your Way

Stop pasting the same instructions into every AI session. Learn how to create Claude skills for .NET (also works for Codex, Copilot and Cursor) - reusable, on-demand instruction packs that teach AI your project's conventions. Create modules, services, features in Verticali Slices, Clean Architecture and N-Layered Architecture. How to crete endpoints, where to put application code, repositories, entitites, event consumers and publishers, gRPC, GraphQL. Plus the official .NET skills published by Microsoft.

Jun 23, 2026

10 Tools That Will Make Developers More Productive in 2026

Discover the 10 tools .NET developers, architects, and tech leads actually use in 2026 to ship faster, write better code, and cut hours of manual work. AI coding agents, IDE, documentation, diagrams, meeting notes, slide generation, fast typing with voice and check English grammar. With pricing breakdowns for every budget.

Jun 16, 2026

EF Core in Clean Architecture the Pragmatic Way

A focused guide to using EF Core in Clean Architecture without repositories. Learn why the Dependency Rule still holds when your Application layer uses DbContext directly, how to keep your handlers small, how to reuse queries, and how to test without mocking. And when a Repository actually makes sense.

Jun 9, 2026

How to Structure Production Apps with Vertical Slice Architecture in .NET in 2026

A practical guide to structuring vertical slices in .NET projects. Learn the file-per-concern slice layout, manual handlers without MediatR, Minimal APIs via IApiEndpoint, Result<T>, FluentValidation, inter-module events, and PublicApi boundaries used in a production Modular Monolith template.

Jun 2, 2026

40 Lessons I Learned in 12 Years as a .NET Developer

After 12 years of building .NET applications, I have learned 40 hard-earned lessons about writing code, designing systems, and shipping software. From clean code and architecture trade-offs to code reviews, technical debt, CI/CD, and team practices, this post shares the most important takeaways every .NET developer, technical lead, and software architect should know.

May 26, 2026

Building File-Based Apps in .NET: A Complete Guide With Multi-File Support

Learn how to build file-based apps in .NET 10 and .NET 11 Preview 3. This guide covers single-file C# scripts, multi-file apps with the #:include directive, including SDK, including project files and building a CLI health-check tool, creating Minimal APIs with EF Core and SQLite, and converting scripts to full projects.

May 19, 2026

Getting Started With Dapr for Building Cloud-Native Microservices in .NET

Learn what Dapr is, how the sidecar architecture works, understand building blocks and components, and set up Dapr with .NET Aspire for your .NET microservices. Code examples in .NET to publish events with Dapr to a message queue (RabbitMQ, Kafka), how to consume events from a message queue with Dapr, how to send HTTP requests to REST services with Dapr (service invocation) and state management.

May 12, 2026

How to Build Production-Ready Projects With Claude Code

Learn a proven 10-step workflow for building production-ready software with AI assistance. Includes detailed prompts for requirements analysis, architecture design, finding functional and non-functional requirements, backend and frontend implementation, code review, and deployment automation.

May 5, 2026

The Real Cost of Returning the Identity Value in EF Core

Learn why EF Core SaveChanges becomes slow when inserting thousands of rows when returning identity values and how BulkInsert and BulkInsertOptimized from Entity Framework Extensions deliver up to 23x faster performance in SQL Server.

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