Dotnet on Michael S. Collier

Removing Magic Strings from Your .NET Aspire Project

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 03:28:59 +0000

If you’re building modern .NET Aspire apps, you’re probably familiar with how service names and resource identifiers are often passed around as string literals, things like "apiservice" or "storage".

Navigating Microsoft's AI Landscape: From Microsoft.Extensions.AI to Semantic Kernel

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

It seems increasingly clear that Semantic Kernel is where Microsoft is investing for building modern, robust AI applications. In fact, Microsoft has stated as much: “Semantic Kernel (is) central to Microsoft’s enterprise AI story”.

In typical Microsoft fashion, they offer several seemingly competing options for developers to choose from, such as AutoGen, Microsoft.Extensions.AI, and probably a few others I’m forgetting right now. This variety doesn’t make it any easier for .NET developers to figure out where to get started and where to focus their upskilling efforts.

Dotnet Run App

Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Have you ever had a moment of inspiration, an idea you wanted to test in C#, but didn’t want to spin up a full project just to run a few lines of code? Same here.

Well, with .NET 10 Preview 4, that pain is going away. Say hello to the new dotnet run app.cs feature.

It’s like C# finally took a page from Python and JavaScript, languages that have long made it easy to run a file with a single command. Now C# joins the party. 🎉