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Let's get an update from the team on the latest .NET Aspire previews!

Join us on the .NET Aspire Discord: https://aka.ms/aspire/discord

.NET Aspire documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspire/

.NET Aspire repo: http://github.com/dotnet/aspire

Links: https://www.theurlist.com/aspnet-standup-2024-04-16

Featuring: David Fowler (@davidfowl), Damian Edwards (@damianedwards), Jon Galloway (@jongalloway)

#dotnet #aspire

In this session we will review our newly released quickstart tutorials, which will empower .NET Devs to infuse generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) into your .NET applications. Whether you’re looking to summarize text, build a chat app, create an app to chat about your data, execute a local .NET function, or generate images, these step-by-step tutorials using the Azure OpenAI SDK will set you on the right path. Additionally, we’ll introduce the upcoming Semantic Kernel SDK to further enhance your AI capabilities. Perfect for both beginners and seasoned developers, this session aims to review the new set of quickstarts and provide you with the knowledge to start integrating AI into your .NET projects effectively.

Links: https://www.theurlist.com/aiandnet02

Featuring: Bruno Capuano (@elbruno), Frank Boucher (@fboucheros) , Jordan Matthiesen (@jmatthiesen)

#Beginner #AI #AzureOpenAI #SemanticKernel

Fritz is teaching us to build an application with Blazor, and its time to add Authentication features. We'll step through the basics of the new authentication model in Blazor

Links: https://github.com/csharpfritz/csharp_with_csharpfritz

Featuring: Jeff Fritz (@csharpfritz)

#blazor #web #authentication

📆Welcome to our March .NET Monthly Roundup with Jon Galloway! In just 3 minutes, Jon breaks down the latest news from the month of February 2024 that .NET developers need to know.

🔗All links: https://aka.ms/dnmr-2403

🌟.NET 9 Preview 2

➡️.NET 9 Preview 2 Discussion - https://github.com/dotnet/core/discussions/9217

➡️ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 9 Preview 2 - https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/discussions/54503

➡️ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 9 Preview 2 Release Notes - https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/preview/preview2/aspnetcore.md

➡️EF Core updates in .NET 9 Preview 2 Release Notes - https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/preview/preview2/efcoreanddata.md

➡️.NET Aspire preview 4 - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/aspire/whats-new/preview-4

🧪Smart Components🧪

➡️Introducing .NET Smart Components - AI-powered UI controls - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-dotnet-smart-components/

🤖AI Fun

➡️Get started with .NET 8 and AI using new quickstart tutorials - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/get-started-with-dotnet-ai-quickstarts/

➡️Get Started with Milvus Vector DB in .NET - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/get-started-milvus-vector-db-dotnet/

⚙️Visual Studio and Tools Updates

➡️Unity extension for Visual Studio Code - Now Generally Available - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/unity-extension-for-visual-studio-code-now-generally-available/

➡️A new MSBuild editing experience - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/experimental-msbuild-editor/

⚠️.NET 7 End of Support

➡️.NET 7 will reach End of Support on May 14, 2024 - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-7-end-of-support/

📺Top Video Recommendation

➡️Writing async/await from scratch in C# with Stephen Toub - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-z2Hv-7nxk

Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:18 .NET 9 Preview 2

00:59 Smart Components

01:45 AI Fun

02:20 Visual Studio and Tools Updates

02:30 .NET 7 End of Support

02:27 Top Video Recommendation

#dotnet #blazor #visualstudio

When you seed your app's database for testing, do you use realistic data? Or do you manually enter Mr. Test Userone and Ms. Test Usertwo and call it a day? In this week's episode, community MVP Sander ten Brinke joins us along with Brian Chavez, the developer of Bogus, a library for seeding databases in Entity Framework Core apps. Come learn how to uplevel your data seeding code!

Featuring: Sander ten Brinke (@sandertenbrinke), Brian Chavez (@bchavez)

#ef-core #database

Join us and learn how improvements coming to .NET 9 will make it easier to integrate Blazor Web and Blazor Hybrid!

⌚ Chapters:

00:00 Countdown

03:06 Welcome to ASP.NET Community Standup

04:57 Community Links

10:25 What are hybrid apps and why build them?

12:38 Blazor hybrid apps

14:45 MAUI hybrid apps in .NET 9 (and beyond)

17:05 Reusing UI across native and web

18:08 Blazor Hybrid+Web Solution Template

20:00 Getting started with the repo

https://github.com/BethMassi/HybridSharedUI

22:57 Q&A

27:46 Demo

31:09 Hot demo difficulties

34:26 Demo continues

42:48 .NET 9 Solution Template Proposal

48:22 Summary and Q&A

01:01:20 Wrap

Demo code: https://github.com/BethMassi/HybridSharedUI

MAUI Experiment: https://github.com/Eilon/MauiHybridWebView

Links: https://www.theurlist.com/aspnet-community-standup-2024-04

Featuring: Beth Massi (@BethMassi), Jon Galloway (@jongalloway), Mackinnon Buck (@MackinnonBuck)

#dotnet #blazor #maui #aspnet

We're on a journey to simplify the .NET developer experience. We've made progress in the last few releases of .NET, and want to talk about ideas to further simplify your experience. Join us for updates on Everyday C#, improvements in the SDK, and possible simplifications of project files.

Featuring: Mikayla Hutchinson, Chet Husk (@ChetHusk), Bill Wagner (@BillWagner), Kathleen Dollard (@KathleenDollard)

#CSharp, #dotnet

Join Maddy, David, and special guest Gerald Versluis for a deep dive into testing your .NET MAUI apps, and how the team tests MAUI itself! Jon Dick joins for more on bindings, plus get a sneak peak at Brandon Minnick’s new .NET MAUI course when he joins to say hi!

⏲️ Chapters:

00:00 Countdown

02:55 Welcome to .NET MAUI Community Standup

05:00 Brandon Minnick @TheCodeTraveler

05:45 .NET MAUI - Dometrain Courses

13:10 Making the case for bindings

21:13 DoNET.Platform Slim Bindings with Jon Dick @redth

https://github.com/redth/dotnet.platform.slimbindings

34:32 Apple Privacy Manifest with Gerald Versluis

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/apple-privacy-manifest-support

35:30 MauixUnitTestSample

37:05 Demo

43:57 Types of Tests

45:35 On-device Testing (Using Device Runners)

https://github.com/mattleibow/DeviceRunners

46:25 Demo

51:43 .NET MAUI Tests samples

https://github.com/dotnet/maui-samples

53:18 Demo

1:01:53 Wrap

Community Links:

https://www.theurlist.com/maui-standup-apr2024

https://github.com/redth/dotnet.platform.slimbindings

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/apple-privacy-manifest-support

https://github.com/mattleibow/DeviceRunners

https://github.com/dotnet/maui-samples

.NET MAUI Community PR Reviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERh9Ixz8f_Y

Featuring: Maddy Montaquila (@maddymontaquila), David Ortinau (@davidortinau), Gerald Versluis (@jfversluis), Brandon Minnick (@brminnick),

Jon Dick (@redth)

#mobile #testing #dotnet

Learn about cloud-native app development with .NET! Then, build your first microservice applications with .NET and Kubernetes. Come to learn something new and leave with something that we all built, together, live with experts!

Links: https://aka.ms/letslearn/dotnet/containers

Featuring: Japhlet Nwamu (@japhletnwamu), Lebogang Madise (@LeboMadise)

#AspNetCore #Containers #dotnet

Acknowledgment: This content is presented by our South African team.

C# code generators are tools that automatically create source code based on predefined templates or rules. In this week's episode, community MVP Jason Bock returns to show us lessons he's learned about what works, what doesn't, and what developers should avoid!

Featuring: Jason Bock

#code-generators