Category Archives: Essentials

Joe Dluzen: Durable Azure Functions

I’m happy to announce the start of a new series on creating APIs with C# and .NET—beginning with a series of posts, videos, and podcasts on Azure Functions and Durable Functions. You can find the video here, and the podcast … Continue reading

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James Montemagno on Vibe Coding

James is welcomed back to Yet Another Podcast, this time to talk about Vibe Coding with Microsoft’s AI tools. Video https://developer.microsoft.com/blog/complete-beginners-guide-to-vibe-coding-an-app-in-5-minutes https://jamesmontemagno.github.io/podstats https://www.vscodepodcast.com https://www.vscodepodcast.com/6

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Lance McCarthy on CoPilot & MCP

Lance takes us through what MCP is, why it is important, and how to work with it. Video You can reach Lance here:https://bsky.app/profile/lance.bostonhttps://twitter.com/l_anceMHttps://dvlup.com

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What a fortnight! VS2026 and iOS26

In the past short while, we’ve seen the release of Visual Studio 2026 and iOS-26. They both have great improvements, though if I had to choose, the one that is making the biggest impact on me is, of course, Visual … Continue reading

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Visual Studio 2026! with Mads Kristensen

Visual Studio 2026 is here. Mads takes us through the highlights View this podcast on YouTube

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Celebrating 15 years of Yet Another Podcast

Today we are celebrating 15 years of commercial-free podcasting on . NET-related issues. Thank you for your ongoing interest and support. Stay tuned for a very special podcast on Visual Studio coming sometime next week.

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Richie Bonilla and Forage AI Email

Forage is an AI email assistant that sorts your mail into categories, provides a summary once or twice a day (your choice) and summarizes newsletters into bullet points. I talk with Richie Bonilla (CEO and co-founder)* about his startup, what … Continue reading

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144,000 users

My site says we just crossed 144,000 users. I’m stunned.

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Turn the tables: 2016

Episode 50: The Technical Journey of Jesse Liberty   Episode 51: The Technical Wisdom of Jesse Liberty

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API – Functions Part 3: Routing

In the previous part of this series, we looked at creating our first API. But how do you determine which API is being invoked? This is accomplished with routing. If you have a Products class your entry (end point) might look … Continue reading

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API Part 2 – Creating An Azure Function

This is part 2 in our series on .NET APIs with C# – Functions. Find Part 1 here. In this part we’ll talk about how you build an Azure Function. Functions are another way of interacting with an API. Here … Continue reading

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James Montemagno on blending .NET application development

A fascinating discussion of building .Net MAUI applications with Blazor and JavaScript libraries. James’ enthusiasm is catching and he doesn’t disappoint in this interview. .NET Beginner Videos: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/videos Microsoft Learn Training: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/dotnet/ Workshops: http://github.com/dotnet-presentations .NET 10 – Next Page: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/next Bluesky: http://bsky.app/profile/james.montemagno.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@jamesmontemagno     … Continue reading

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