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A secure enterprise chat with React, .NET 10 and Microsoft Foundry

The article targets the common mistake of calling the model straight from the front end with the API key in JavaScript, and instead wires React to a .NET 10 Minimal API that talks to Microsoft Foundry without any keys. It walks through Entra ID authentication, a server-owned system prompt, Server-Sent Events streaming and IP-based rate limiting as the protections that separate a demo from a product.

C# 14 extension members: the shadowing bug the compiler won't warn you about

C# 14's extension member syntax now covers properties and static members, not just methods, yet a type's own member still silently wins over an identically named extension member. The author reproduces this against the .NET 10 SDK with eight tests: the build reports zero warnings and zero errors while every call site quietly switches to new logic.

Mastering Rate Limiting and Resource Governance for MCP Servers at Scale

A production write-up on rate limiting and resource governance for MCP orchestration servers, where a single tenant's burst can exhaust shared LLM token quota and starve everyone else. It compares the common limiter algorithms and lands on per-tenant token buckets with Redis-backed state and quota-aware refill rates.

TermForge: SSH, Docker, and File Management in One .NET App

TermForge is a local web application built with .NET and React that merges SSH sessions, file browser, and Docker management into one unified tool. This project offers a modern solution to the challenges faced when switching between terminals and remote file systems across multiple servers.

.NET 8 and 9 End of Support: A Deployment-First Migration Checklist

Microsoft retires .NET 8 and .NET 9 on November 10, 2026, leaving apps without security patches unless they move to .NET 10. A new deployment-first checklist shows how to inventory what is actually running, retarget with minimal risk and prove the migration with artifact-level testing and a rollback rehearsal.

Mostlylucid.Relevance: SQLite-backed recommendations for .NET apps

Part 5 of Scott Galloway's series packages the recommendation and intervention ideas from earlier parts into Mostlylucid.Relevance, a framework that runs inside the application process and keeps its state in SQLite. It can serve several isolated domains at once, and an optional native package adds an HNSW vector index. The package also ships an AGENTS.md guide describing extension points and invariants for developers and their coding assistants.

Inside Azure SQL Hyperscale: how the Socrates paper split the database

A walkthrough of the 2019 Socrates paper behind Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. The design splits compute, transaction log, page servers and storage into separate tiers, which is why backups, restores and adding replicas no longer scale with database size. Developers running or evaluating Hyperscale get a clear view of the architecture behind it.

Avalonia security incident: CMS breach, packages and customer data unaffected

Avalonia reported that unauthorised access during the 22-23 October 2026 attack was limited to its marketing website CMS. The entry point was an administrator token accidentally embedded in browser-delivered JavaScript. All 39 attempts to publish to its NuGet feeds were rejected, and customers need not reset passwords or replace licence keys.

How to Handle Graceful Shutdown in ASP.NET Core Background Services

This guide covers how ASP.NET Core background services can stop cleanly during shutdown without losing or duplicating work. It walks through cancellation tokens, scoped dependencies, queue acknowledgement order and host shutdown timeouts, with a test checklist for production readiness.

Succeeding with test automation using Bobcat

The Critter Stack team has described the test automation strategy behind Bobcat, its new spec-driven integration testing framework for .NET. The post, written by Jeremy Miller, lays out practices for tests that ship confidence, are cheap to write, run fast, stay reliable and explain their failures. It is a useful reference for .NET teams who want their CI results to be trusted as a merge gate.

OrmLite v10.4 adds typed recursive, window and combined queries

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.