.NET MAUI 10.0.120 is out with 213 commits focused on quality. The release fixes BlazorWebView memory leaks and disconnect issues, several CollectionView regressions on iOS and Android, plus Editor, Entry and TimePicker behavior. If you ship MAUI apps with CollectionView or Blazor Hybrid, these fixes are worth checking against your app.
This guide explains how to scale ASP.NET Core SignalR across several servers using either a Redis backplane or Azure SignalR Service. It covers why messages fail to reach clients on other servers, how each option distributes them, and when sticky sessions are still needed. It is a practical starting point for teams moving real-time apps into production.
An overview of the C# 15 features: union types, closed class hierarchies, named break and continue, extension indexers, with-arguments in collection expressions and the revised unsafe model. It shows how each one changes everyday code and where the caveats are.
.NET 11 RC2 adds Process.RunAndCaptureText, which runs an external command, drains stdout and stderr together and returns both strings with the exit code. It removes the deadlock that the classic redirect-and-ReadToEnd pattern can hit on noisy tools. Anyone who shells out to git, ffmpeg or internal CLIs will want to know the new helpers and their timeout behavior.
ServiceStack v10.4 lets typed OrmLite queries reach into complex properties such as x.Address.City or x.Lines.Any(...). The expressions are translated to the native JSON functions of SQLite, PostgreSQL, SQL Server and MySQL, so one query works across all four. This removes the need for Sql.Json() wrappers on complex properties.
Andrew Lock introduces CBOR, a binary serialization format positioned as a more compact alternative to JSON, and shows how to use the System.Formats.Cbor package. The post walks through writing and reading CBOR with CborWriter and CborReader and explains the conformance modes that control the output.
C# 15 adds the closed modifier, which limits derived types of a base class to the same assembly. The compiler then knows the full list of subtypes and can flag switch expressions that miss a case. This helps .NET developers catch new cases at build time instead of finding silent runtime bugs in game logic or domain rules.
A guide to the four built-in rate limiting algorithms in ASP.NET Core: fixed window, sliding window, token bucket and concurrency limiter. It shows how each one behaves under the same traffic and when to pick it for a given endpoint. Useful for any .NET developer who needs to protect an API from abusive or buggy clients.
Ali Hamza Ansari compares the PipeReader overload that .NET 10 adds to System.Text.Json with reading the same large JSON payload from a Stream. He measures execution time, allocated memory and GC collection counts on a file with one million records. The results matter if your high-traffic endpoints deserialize big request bodies.
ServiceStack v10.4 brings typed support to OrmLite for recursive hierarchies, named sub queries, window functions, set operations and keyset paging. These queries used to need hand-written SQL, and now they stay parameterized and composable with your existing filters and joins. The post walks through each feature with examples and the SQL they generate.
Wolverine 6.51 adds a warm-up node role for blue/green deployments. New nodes join the cluster only to rebuild new projection versions in Marten or Polecat, without handling messages or subscriptions. Combined with versioned projections and a side-effect gate, teams can catch up read models before switching traffic. This is a practical path to zero-downtime releases for event-sourced systems.
Shiny.Net.Http is a library that keeps file uploads and downloads running in the background on iOS, Android and other platforms, even when the app is suspended or killed. Its queue survives restarts and supports retries, pause and resume. It is a practical alternative to hand-written retry loops for mobile teams.