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Right before heading into a short vacation, I wanted to blog about some of our recent releases this past week as the entire CritterStack has been busy lately. Between June 22 and June 29, we shipped three Wolverine releases, three Marten releases, and three Polecat releases — a week heavy on database-backed messaging, …
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MSIX supports making a package available to all users; the formal term is provisioning. Provisioning a package family makes it available to all users, whereas registration makes a package available to a single user. Per-User vs All Users Traditional installers often provide a "per-machine" installation mode …
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Mailbox requirement set 1.16 is now generally available for Outlook add-ins. This release reflects our continued investment in closing the gap between COM/VSTO and web add-ins, with a focus on message and information security. Mail Link to article: …
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Hi everyone! May and June brought so much Kotlin news that I needed a little extra space for this roundup. Kotlin turned 15, Kotlin 2.4.0 arrived with new capabilities for developers on every platform, and I found plenty of ways to learn, experiment, build AI agents and AI-powered applications, and explore useful …
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During my discussion of the evolution of system-windows window and class extra bytes, I noted that even though IDs are typically small integers, people liked to stash pointers there, so we Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260630-00/?p=112488
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Born out of a deep partnership between JetBrains and GitHub, this integration makes Copilot native in the agent picker and delivers a more stable agent experience directly in the IDE you already use every day. From ACP Registry to native experience Copilot was previously accessible via the ACP Registry, but this …
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Visitor pattern best practices in C# for clean double dispatch, extensible element hierarchies, and avoiding common anti-patterns. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/06/30/visitor-pattern-best-practices-in-c-code-organization-and-maintainability
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Every Terraform user eventually has that moment. You run terraform apply, expecting a clean deployment, and Terraform confidently starts building resources in an order that makes… Link to article: https://build5nines.com/terraform-dependency-management-when-ordering-matters-more-than-you-think/
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In this post I describe what a close closed hierarchy is, how to create one, and discuss why you might want to Link to article: https://andrewlock.net/exploring-the-dotnet-11-preview-4-closed-class-hierarchies/
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We're excited to release React Native Windows 0.84.0, aligned with React Native 0.84.1. React Native Windows v0.84 delivers input-handling improvements such as standard click events and imperative focus, theme-aware defaults and robust hit-testing semantics. Link to article: …
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New OpenAI Signals data shows how ChatGPT adoption is growing globally, with users increasing usage, exploring more capabilities, and driving growth across regions and languages. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/how-chatgpt-adoption-has-expanded
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OpenAI engineers used large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fault and a long-standing software bug. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/core-dump-epidemiology-data-infrastructure-bug
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Snapshot Tests are an uncommon type of test that focuses on checking that no regressions were introduced after a code refactoring. Let’s learn how they work and how to use the Verify NuGet library to add them to your test suite. Link to article: https://www.code4it.dev/blog/snapshot-tests-with-verify/
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.NET 8 and .NET 9 will reach end of support on November 10, 2026. After that date, Microsoft will no longer provide servicing updates, security fixes, or technical support for these versions. We recommend upgrading to Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-8-9-end-of-support
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A complete guide to HttpClient retry policy C# patterns in .NET 10 using Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Resilience -- retries, circuit breakers, timeouts, and more. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/06/29/httpclient-resilience-in-net-10-timeout-retry-and-circuit-breaker-with-microsoftextensionshttpresilience
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SkiaSharp has been the backbone of cross-platform 2D graphics in .NET for over a decade. It powers pixel-perfect text, geometry, and image rendering across mobile, desktop, web, and server using the open-source Skia engine, and it sits under .NET MAUI, WebAssembly, WinUI 3, and frameworks like Link to article: …
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A developer I was chatting with recently raised a question I’ve been hearing more and more: Since we can produce code so fast now, does the code actually matter that much? Assuming the code fulfills the requirement through actual user testing, who cares what the code looks like? We’re just sitting at another layer of …
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In this post, we cover best practices for implementing an effective backup strategy for BI assets in Quick Sight. We start by covering the options for selecting the assets to include in your backup, then explain the high-level APIs available for that purpose, and finalize with sample code to help you get started …
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In this post, we show how pairing Amazon Nova 2 Lite with Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 delivers an efficient solution for digitizing scanned documents at scale. We built a two-model pipeline on Amazon Bedrock for digitizing scanned yearbook pages. Amazon Nova 2 Lite handles native multimodal extraction in a single …
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In this post, we show you how PAR built a production-ready multi-tenant LLM analytics system that enforces row-level security through a three-layer architecture: cryptographic request signing with AWS SigV4, semantic validation on Amazon Bedrock, and programmatic data isolation via Split-Plane SQL. We demonstrate how …
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