Agent security, EF Core, API hardening
Coverage includes SQL security for agentic AI, EF Core .NET 10 performance fixes, ASP.NET endpoint hardening, MCP servers, and partial failure design.
Jasen's top three picks
- 1 Microsoft SQL Security Across the MAESTRO Stack: Building Secure Agentic AI with Defense-in-Depth
devblogs.microsoft.com
A solid security-oriented look at agentic AI architecture with SQL in the middle; useful if you're sorting out boundaries, identity, and data protection together.
- 2 Getting the Client IP Address in ASP.NET Core
weblog.west-wind.com
Short, practical, and exactly the sort of ASP.NET Core reminder people end up searching for when proxy headers and RemoteIpAddress get fuzzy.
- 3 Creating a Simple MCP Server in .NET
pmichaels.net
Nice hands-on introduction to standing up an MCP server in .NET without overcomplicating the first pass.
Editor's note
I kept this issue intentionally mixed, which is how I think the best daily reads work. The SQL MAESTRO security piece stood out for its practical defense-in-depth view of agentic AI, and the EF Core performance roundup is the kind of production-focused checklist many teams can use immediately. I also liked the partial failure article because it tackles the messy reality of multi-system workflows without pretending everything fits inside a transaction.
Today's articles
Microsoft SQL Security Across the MAESTRO Stack: Building Secure Agentic AI with Defense-in-Depth
devblogs.microsoft.com
Artificial Intelligence is evolving rapidly. What began as simple prompt-and-response systems is now transforming into fully autonomous, agentic AI architectures capable of reasoning, orchestrating to...
Topics: Azure Security SQL Server
Read articleGetting the Client IP Address in ASP.NET Core
weblog.west-wind.com
When I need to pick up the client IP Address in ASP.NET Core I always forget where to find the connection information. It's simple enough: HttpContext?.Connection?.RemoteIpAddress but I never reme...
Topics: ASP.NET Core Web API
Read articleCreating a Simple MCP Server in .NET
pmichaels.net
In my previous post, I covered how to interact with a local LLM from .NET using LM Studio. In this post, I’m going to take that a little…
Read articleWhen Your Use Case Half-Succeeds: Designing for Partial Failure in .NET
milanjovanovic.tech
A use case isn't a transaction. The moment it touches more than one system, you are dealing with partial failure. Here's how I classify side effects and design use cases that fail loudly and recover s...
Topics: C# Design Patterns
Read articleThe Coding Harness Behind GitHub Copilot in VS Code
code.visualstudio.com
What developers actually interact with is the coding harness: the layer that assembles context, exposes tools, runs the agent loop, interprets tool calls, and turns a model's output into something use...
Topics: GitHub Copilot Visual Studio Code
Read article10 EF Core Performance Mistakes (and How to Fix Them) in .NET 10
codewithmukesh.com
10 EF Core performance mistakes that ship to production - N+1 queries, missing projections, lazy loading, AsNoTracking, bulk ops - and how to fix each in .NET 10.
Topics: .NET 10 EF Core Performance
Read articleOn .NET Live: How Coding Standards Supercharge .NET Quality & Performance
dotnettips.com
For the second time, I’m excited to be a guest on On .NET Live on May 18th at 9 AM PST! I’ll be talking about one of my favorite subjects: coding standards and how they can supercharge .NET code quali...
Topics: C# Performance
Read articleBuilding a Agent with Microsoft Agent Framework and Multiple AI Service Providers
medium.com
In this article, we will build a simple Weather Prediction Agent using the Microsoft Agent Framework with support for multiple AI…
Read articleSecuring Swagger, Scalar, and Health Endpoints in ASP.NET
medium.com
🚨 Your API Might Be Secure… But Your Swagger UI Isn’t
Topics: ASP.NET Core Security Web API
Read articleWhy I Like Azure Cosmos DB So Much
cosmin-vladutu.medium.com
Intro
Read articleI Spent 6 Months Treating My .NET API Like a React App. Here’s the Mess I Made
ajaybisht-dev.medium.com
A full-stack confession from someone who should have known better
Topics: Design Patterns Web API
Read article“Frontend Filtering Works… Until Pagination Enters the Chat”
medium.com
Users were searching for orders that definitely existed in our database — but getting empty results.
Topics: Design Patterns Web API
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