Dew Drop - August 5, 2026 (#4726)
Daily curated links for developers: Visual Studio, .NET, AI agents, web security, Azure, and more tech news.
Daily curated links for developers: Visual Studio, .NET, AI agents, web security, Azure, and more tech news.
Daily tech news roundup covering AI, .NET, Windows development, cloud, and DevOps updates.
Series on creating multi-agent systems with Python, LangChain, and migrating to C# and Microsoft Agentic Framework.
Fara 1.5-9B model now fully supported in ElBruno.LocalLLMs for C# local inference with vision capabilities.
An overview of Little Navmap, an open-source flight planner for simulators, with setup instructions and technical details.
A curated roundup of IT/tech news, including .NET debugging, AI agents, Windows updates, and web development trends.
Learn to detect, diagnose, and fix the N+1 query problem in EF Core with practical examples and permanent solutions.
Debunking the myth that Add() in a loop is slower than AddRange() in EF Core, explaining why it applied only to EF6.
Analysis of 5 EF Core performance anti-patterns and how Entity Framework Extensions solves them.
Explores closed class hierarchies in .NET 11 preview, showing how to create them and why they improve exhaustiveness checking.
Explores implementing finalizers in a custom .NET garbage collector, covering CLR internals and finalization mechanics.
Learn how to run Linux containers on WSL using C# with the new Microsoft.WSL.Containers SDK, including setup and code examples.
Explores Richard Gabriel's 'Worse is Better' concept, comparing popular vs superior software technologies with examples like JSON vs XML.
Migrating a C# application to the Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) for agentic AI and multi-agent workflows.
How to add Dependency Injection to a C# agent framework application, improving flexibility and testability.
Learn how to use BulkSynchronize in EF Core to efficiently mirror data in one operation, avoiding common performance pitfalls.
Explores the new StringBuilder.MoveChunks() API in .NET 11 preview, its usage, implementation, and performance benefits for reducing allocations.
Final part of migrating agentic code from Python to C# using Microsoft Agent Framework, implementing workflow executors.
Analysis of Rust vs C++ for building native Iceberg scan operators, focusing on production performance, safety, and interoperability.
How to let AI agents drive a GUI app via a named pipe control channel instead of fragile UI automation.