Blazor, EF Core, and AI updates
This issue spans Blazor’s future, EF Core 10 query filters, API versioning, messaging patterns, and .NET AI development for 2026.
Jasen's top three picks
- 1 What Is a Lambda Expression (and Why C# Feels Incomplete Without It)
medium.com
A friendly refresher on lambdas, with enough context to help newer C# devs and a reminder for the rest of us.
- 2 Blazor Community Standup - Planning the future of Blazor in .NET 11
youtube.com
A good platform check-in: Blazor’s future, MAUI on Linux via Avalonia, and VS Code agent skills all hint at where tooling is going.
- 3 .NET MAUI Community Standup - Run .NET MAUI on Linux with Avalonia
youtube.com
A solid EF Core 10 update if you use query filters for soft delete or multi-tenancy.
Editor's note
I kept this one deliberately mixed: UI, data access, architecture, and AI all show up side by side. The Blazor future discussion and the EF Core 10 query filter update are especially worth a look if you’re tracking where the platform is heading. I also liked the message-ordering piece for turning a real distributed-systems problem into practical design steps.
Today's articles
What Is a Lambda Expression (and Why C# Feels Incomplete Without It)
medium.com
A Lambda Expression is a syntax in C# (and many modern languages) that allows us to write short, readable, function-like expressions.
Topics: C#
Read articleBlazor Community Standup - Planning the future of Blazor in .NET 11
youtube.com
How can you swap two non-adjacent blocks of memory using only forward iterators?
Topics: Blazor
Read article.NET MAUI Community Standup - Run .NET MAUI on Linux with Avalonia
youtube.com
NDepend with Patrick Smacchia: Scaling .NET Code Quality
Read articleWhy Serious Engineering Teams Are Reconsidering .NET in 2025
medium.com
For years, .NET lived in a strange place within the developer community. It was widely used but rarely discussed. Popular, yet often…
Topics: .NET Core
Read articleNamed Global Query Filters Were Updated in EF Core 10
antondevtips.com
Explore Named Query Filters in EF Core 10: apply multiple filters to entities for soft deletion and multi-tenancy. Learn best practices with real-world code examples.
Read articleA New Year, Same Curiosity — Let’s Keep Connecting the Dots ✨
medium.com
A new year always feels like a reset button.
Topics: .NET Core
Read articleThe Power of Immutable Structs and Ref Structs in C#
medium.com
A struct in C# is a value type that holds data directly in memory (typically on the stack), unlike reference types like classes, which…
Topics: C#
Read articleSolving Message Ordering from First Principles
milanjovanovic.tech
Per-aggregate ordering is what we really want. But queues with competing consumers make it surprisingly easy to break. This article shows how the “fix” naturally evolves into a saga.
Topics: CQRS Design Patterns
Read articleIntroducing Agent Skills in VS Code
youtube.com
Agent Skills: https://agentskills.io Unlock the power of Agent Skills in VS Code!
Topics: GitHub Copilot Visual Studio Code
Read articleGenerative AI with Large Language Models in C# in 2026
devblogs.microsoft.com
A practical introduction to modern AI for .NET developers. The post Generative AI with Large Language Models in C# in 2026 appeared first on .NET Blog.
Topics: C# OpenAI Semantic Kernel
Read articleImplementing API Versioning in .NET
medium.com
Versioning is one of those topics every backend engineer knows is important, yet it’s surprisingly easy to postpone until the system…
Read articleSemantic Reranking with Azure SQL, SQL Server 2025 and Cohere Rerank models
devblogs.microsoft.com
Supporting re‑ranking has been one of the most common requests lately. While not always essential, it can be a valuable addition to a solution when you want to improve the precision of your results. U...
Topics: Azure OpenTelemetry SQL Server
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