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This week on The Upload: .NET apps capture memory dumps when things go wrong, we break down the challenges of moving time data between PostgreSQL and SQL Server, and AI agents get stronger isolation and durable memory with Microsoft Foundry and Azure Blob Storage.
πŸŽ₯ msft.it/63325aYdZN

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🚨 Production app frozen?
Use C# to monitor ThreadPool health, detect saturation, and automatically capture memory dumps for post-mortem debugging. πŸ’ΎπŸ”Ž

Stop guessing. Start investigating.
πŸ“– Read: msft.it/6187aWM29

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Discover the emerging classifier revolution with Jevβ€”a new take on LLMs that ditches generation for lightning-fast categorization. Dive into the latest model releases, practical strategies for iterative AI dev, and why specialized models are reshaping how we work with AI. 🎧 msft.it/63329aYn5c

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πŸ€– Chatbots wait. Agents act.

Microsoft Foundry Routines are now GA πŸš€ βœ… Scheduled + event-driven triggers βœ… GitHub & Teams integrations βœ… Managed identity βœ… Long-running workflows via reminders

Build agents that work while you sleep. 😎

πŸ“– msft.it/63324aYVCY

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πŸ’₯ Prod app hanging? Don't guess... dump. 🧡
Learn how to capture a memory dump, inspect Parallel Stacks in Visual Studio, spot ThreadPool saturation, and use GitHub Copilot to accelerate root-cause analysis. πŸ€–βš™οΈ
Read: msft.it/63326ac0o8

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Performance improvements in .NET 11, automatic zone placement for Azure VM Scale Sets, Microsoft’s multicloud database SDK, critical .NET security updates, and the latest production-ready capabilities in Microsoft Foundry.

Episode 6 of The Upload ➑️ msft.it/63328alt5E

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Rocky Lhotka discusses RockBot, his own variant of the OpenClaw/Hermes type personal assistant and why he built RockBot as a set of containers behind the Kubernetes orchestrator. 🎧 msft.it/63323aWML1

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🚨 Production app frozen?
Use C# to monitor ThreadPool health, detect saturation, and automatically capture memory dumps for post-mortem debugging. πŸ’ΎπŸ”Ž

Stop guessing. Start investigating.
πŸ“– Read: msft.it/63322aWM4i

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〰️ HAPPENING TODAY at 10AM PT 〰️
Blazor Community Standup

Learn about the new Blazor AI Components to build agent-centric apps where AI agents actively participate in the user experience, driving workflows, taking actions, and helping users get work done.

πŸŽ₯ ➑️ msft.it/63327aW3Pv

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πŸ€– AI wrote the PR. Who owns the code?
Live from Codegarden, OSS leaders discuss AI-assisted contributions, trust, reviews, testing, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and a simple rule:
βœ… If you commit it, it's your responsibility.
🎧 msft.it/63321acEvP

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πŸ€– AG-UI now has a first class .NET SDK!

Stream agent lifecycle events, tool calls, state updates & multi-agent workflows using a standard protocol. Less custom event parsing. More interoperable AI apps. ⚑

πŸ“– Read: msft.it/6187altTH

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πŸ” Supply-chain PSA for .NET teams: Microsoft is updating the NuGet author-signing certificate. If you use trusted signer policies or dotnet nuget verify, add the new fingerprint now or risk NU3034 validation failures after the transition. πŸš€
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πŸ” Supply-chain PSA for .NET teams: Microsoft is updating the NuGet author-signing certificate. If you use trusted signer policies or dotnet nuget verify, add the new fingerprint now or risk NU3034 validation failures after the transition. πŸš€ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/microsoft-author-signing-certificate-update-2026/
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πŸ€– Blazor goes agentic! πŸš€

New Blazor AI components help you build chat UIs, stream responses, manage conversations, and create AI-powered experiences using familiar .NET patterns. 🧠⚑

Build smarter apps with less boilerplate.

πŸ“– Read: msft.it/63324altVK

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πŸ€– AG-UI now has a SDK!

Stream agent lifecycle events, tool calls, state updates & multi-agent workflows using a standard protocol. Less custom event parsing. More interoperable AI apps. ⚑

πŸ“– Read: msft.it/63321altrS

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πŸ“± Foldable phones are cool. Supporting them? That's the real challenge. πŸ˜…
James & Frank break down iPhone Duo development: dual-screen layouts, safe area handling, keyboard behavior, UI adaptation, and why native controls win. πŸš€
🎧 msft.it/63322agnXG

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〰️ HAPPENING TODAY AT 11AM PT 〰️
Join the GnollHack! team for the next .NET MAUI Community Standup!

Explore how the team uses #dotNETMAUI to bring a deep, traditional roguelike experience to Android, iOS, and Windows.

Bring your questions and join us live! msft.it/63324acxYe

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〰️ HAPPENING TODAY 〰️
Let's Learn GitHub Copilot SDK - .NET Edition

Join this beginner-friendly livestream to learn how to build agentic applications with the GitHub Copilot SDK for .NET, without implementing the agent loop yourself.

See you LIVE here at 9AM PT ➑️ msft.it/63321agbPU

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〰️ HAPPENING TOMORROW 〰️
Let's Learn GitHub Copilot SDK - .NET Edition
Join this beginner-friendly livestream to learn how to build agentic applications with the GitHub Copilot SDK for .NET, without implementing the agent loop yourself.

See you LIVE here at 9AM PT ➑️ msft.it/63326a5C8A

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In today's One Dev Question, Amanda Silver discusses the many ways Microsoft engages with open source, from community-driven documentation to contributions to foundational technologies like Kubernetes, Apache projects, and the Linux kernel. πŸŽ₯ msft.it/63323a57t3

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