Author Archives: Jesse Liberty
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
Posted in Essentials, iOS, iPhone, Visual Studio
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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
Posted in Azure, C#, CoPilot, Learning, Microsoft, Programming, Tools and Utilities, Visual Studio, Visual Studio
Tagged YapCast
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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
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.
Posted in Essentials
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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
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.
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
CoPilot Agents
Prepare to have your mind blown. Copilot Agents are powerful AI tools for Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. Used to CoPilot? — you ain’t seen nothing yet! James Montemagno and Burke Holland of Microsoft discuss how to get it, … Continue reading
Mike Kistler (Microsoft) on OpenAPI
OpenAPI is the framework of choice for documenting APIs OpenAPI support in ASP.NET Core API appshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/overview?view=aspnetcore-9.0 Generate OpenAPI documents at build-timehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/aspnetcore-openapi?view=aspnetcore-9.0&tabs=visual-studio%2Cvisual-studio-code#generate-openapi-documents-at-build-time The project file property to set the directory where the OpenAPI should be saved is “OpenApiDocumentsDirectory” and it is documented here:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/aspnetcore-openapi?view=aspnetcore-9.0&tabs=visual-studio%2Cvisual-studio-code#modifying-the-output-directory-of-the-generated-open-api-file This section contains … Continue reading
Claude
There’s a new AI kid on the block (https://claude.ai) and he is very powerful for programming and many other things. At the risk of being obnoxious, here is what he said about me:Jesse Liberty is a well-known software developer, author, … Continue reading
Posted in AI
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APIs with C# – Part 4 Options
NET provides support for passing options via environment variables, appsettings.json, and XML files. as well as command line arguments. In short, each higher level overrides the settings in lower levels. To add options: Create a public class and name it … Continue reading
Posted in APIs
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