Editor's note
I kept this one nicely mixed on purpose. The EF Core temporal tables piece stands out for its practical audit trail examples, and the AI agent verification article tackles a problem teams are quickly learning they need to solve. There’s also a solid spread of architecture material here, from Orleans and Dapr to event sourcing and a real-world SOLID cleanup story.
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Jasen's take on today's picks
CodeBehind 4.7: A Cleaner MVC Experience and Better WebForms Core Integration
CodeBehind is still an interesting corner of the ecosystem, especially if you care about MVC ergonomics and WebForms-style migration paths.
Track every EF Core record change with temporal tables
Temporal tables remain one of the most useful underused SQL Server features, and this walks through the EF Core side clearly.
What .NET 10 Means for Enterprise Application Development
Enterprise-level .NET 10 coverage tends to be broad; useful if you need the big-picture implications rather than feature minutiae.
Orleans Framework Tutorial: Building Distributed Applications in .NET
A decent entry point into Orleans for anyone evaluating actor-model patterns for stateful distributed systems.
Event Sourcing vs CRUD Applications: A Practical Comparison
Always worth reading these comparisons when they stay practical instead of ideological.
From Pentest to 1.7 Million Downloads, Part 2: The Lessons Nobody Taught Me
More career-and-product lessons than code, but that perspective matters too.
Building Event-Driven Applications with Dapr: A Practical Guide
Good overview of Dapr building blocks for event-driven systems without getting lost in platform branding.
Compose validators, don’t copy them: a reusable FluentValidation kit
I like validator composition whenever teams are fighting duplication and drift across commands.
I opened a file with FILE_ FLAG_ DELETE_ ON_ CLOSE , but now I changed my mind
Classic Raymond Chen: narrow topic, deep platform behavior, very useful if you touch Windows internals.
How SOLID Helped Me Delete Nearly 5,000 Lines of Code
Deleting 5,000 lines is usually a better engineering story than adding 5,000 more.
Hosting AI Agents with Microsoft Agent Framework in .NET Ep - 14, Part 2
Agent hosting details are where many AI demos become real systems, so this is timely.
The Verification Layer Every AI Agent Needs (and How I Built One Twice)
Verification is rapidly becoming a required layer for agentic systems, not a nice-to-have.