Author Archives: Jesse Liberty

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About Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses. His latest book, Building APIs with .NET, is now available wherever you buy your books. Liberty is a Senior SW Engineer for CNH and he was a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a Microsoft MVP.

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Learning AI

Very excited to say that I have purchased 3-4 books in preparation for the Azure AI 900 certification from Microsoft. I will be creating another series here, distilling down what I learn, even while we keep the API series going. … Continue reading

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Azure Functions & Durable Functions

Creating the Project with CoPilot As part of the API tutorials we decided we needed a Database with two tables: Book and Author. Books will join Author and there can be as many authors as we want. Rather than writing … Continue reading

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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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Scott Hunter

Conversation with Scott Hunter (VP Microsoft) about Visual Studio, CoPilot Agents, MCP, Azure, Azure Functions and much more. Watch on YouTube Note: ZenCastr ate Scott’s links, but you can get started at https://learn.microsoft.com

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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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Mads K (Microsoft) on Visual Studio and VSCode

Mads K of Microsoft talks about the targeting of Visual Studio and VSCode. Towards the end, I ask him about a few of his favorite plugins. View this podcast on YouTube

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Jeff Fritz on .NET Aspire and CoPilot Agents

Jeff Fritz (Microsoft) joins me to talk about .NET Aspire, CoPilot Agents and Vibe programming. This is a show not to miss; his enthusiasm is catching and his knowledge is astonishing.

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