Benjamin Abt explains how the .NET SDK's PublishContainer target can build an OCI image for ASP.NET Core services without a Dockerfile and deliver it to a registry, an archive or a local runtime. The article offers a practical rule for when SDK publishing fits and when a Dockerfile still makes sense.
The GitHub Copilot SDK lets you keep GitHub's agent runtime while routing model inference to your own Microsoft Foundry or Azure OpenAI deployment through BYOK. The article walks through a .NET 10 console sample that configures ProviderConfig, authenticates with Microsoft Entra ID or an API key, and sends one prompt.
Nick Cosentino explains how to set up C# code intelligence in Claude Code through the csharp-lsp plugin and where that setup stops being reliable. The article separates the language server, the plugin and the workspace as three layers to verify, and it clarifies what diagnostics and symbol navigation can and cannot prove. It is a practical checklist for .NET developers using Claude Code on C# repositories.
NAudio 3.3.0 preview moves the meta-package to a single net9.0 target and marks Windows-only APIs with [SupportedOSPlatform] instead of a -windows TFM. The library is also fully annotated for nullable reference types. Developers targeting plain netX.0 should know the new package layout and the CA1416 warnings it can produce.
Microsoft has announced the public preview of dotnetup, a toolchain manager that installs, manages and updates .NET SDKs and runtimes in the user account on macOS and Linux. It needs no admin rights, supports side-by-side versions and respects global.json. It is a practical option for local machines and CI workers.
Aspire 13.6 moves dashboard telemetry from memory into SQLite, so logs, traces and metrics survive restarts. A run selector lets you revisit earlier runs of the same app. Default telemetry limits rise to 100,000 entries, and memory use drops in the team's benchmark.