dotInsights | November 2026

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Do You Still Need an IDE If Agents Write Your Code? 🎥 – Kristel Cocoli

Your AI Agent Says It’s Done. Now What? Codex + JetBrains Air in Rider 🎥 – Anastasia Kazakova

Replicating Project Pad UI in .NET MAUI – Leomaris Reyes

Connect Azure Functions to more services with managed connectors – Lily Ma

How to Build Reliable AI Agent Systems for Production – Angie Jones

European Law for .NET Developers: What the GDPR Means for Your Code – Lou Creemers

.NET 11 Just Got Cleaner Call Stacks! – Isaac Levin

TypeSafe Jev .NET SDK 0.7.0: Experimental Images and Bounding Boxes and Building a TypeSafe’s Jev MCP server with .NET – Laurent Kempé

Why every .NET library deserves a proper start – Dennis Doomen

Primary constructors are more than syntactic sugar – Steven Giesel

Stop Modeling Everything as CRUD 🎥 – CodeOpinion by Derek Comartin

Rails to ASP.NET Core: A Developer’s Map – Khalid Abuhakmeh

Stripping extra dependencies in .NET NativeAOT apps using linker substitutions – Andrew Lock

How to Keep Your Architecture Diagrams Accurate 🎥 – Gui Ferreira

Event Sourcing: two ways to enable accept/reject workflows – Urs Enzler

Checking Structured Chat Answers with NLP NLI and Decision Models – Scott Galloway

AI added a vulnerable NuGet package to our .NET app – David Grace

What’s new in ASP.NET Core authentication in .NET 11 – Tore Nestenius

Alan Braz on How Gen AI Changes the Way We Work 🎥 – Technology and Friends by David Giard

Boost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Simplify HTTP Request Handling with HttpRequestExtensions – David McCarter

MongoDB in C#: Connecting, Mapping, and Reading Documents – Nick Cosentino

Promptless AI-First Blazor Apps – Héctor Pérez

.NET 11 runtime async: the runtime takes over await – Gérald Barré

C# 15 Union Types for API Results: Examples, Trade-Offs, and Migration – Arunachalam Kandasamy Raja

Why your AI assistant writes JavaScript-flavored C# (and 8 rules that fix it) – Recs Ventures

What really happens when you let AI design your database schema (everything you should know) – Lukas Vileikis

DuckDB.NET 1.5.6.1: Reading Data Up to 12× Faster – Giorgi Dalakishvili

.NET 11 and the Critter Stack – Jeremy D. Miller

How to Develop Software Engineering Skills in the Age of AI – Ben Linders

Human-in-the-Loop AI Drafts in ASP.NET Core: Approval Queues, Audit Trails, and Safe Sending – Rahmat Afridi

The Ultimate Guide to Modern C♯ 14 and .NET 10 Ecosystem Development – Kunal Chowdhury

XAML SVG Icons – Axialis Engineering team

C# Advent 2026 | Sign-ups are open! – C# Advent

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