dotInsights | September 2026

Did you know? Fun fact: The C# compiler (Roslyn) is open source and written in C#. It exposes APIs to analyze and generate code.

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Here’s the latest from the developer community.

Azure Service Bus: Count your filters – Daniel Marbach

.NET 11 Performance Edition – Steven Giesel

Automatic CSRF protection based on Fetch Metadata headers – Andrew Lock

Decoupling in Software Architecture Moves Complexity – Derek Comartin

Hosting the .NET Aspire Dashboard as a Standalone Container in Azure Web Apps – Maarten Balliauw

2play ^ !2play [It Takes Two] Part 1 – Stefan Pölz and Eva Ditzelmüller

3 Claude Code Skills I Wish I’d Found Sooner – Gui Ferreira

Understanding .NET 11 Automatic CSRF Protection: A Guide for Identity Developers – Khalid Abuhakmeh

What Is a .NET Obfuscator and How Does It Protect Your Code? – Hannah Son

4 Rating Card UI Ideas in .NET MAUI – Leomaris Reyes

What If the Biggest Bottleneck Behind AI’s 10× Promise Is the Human Engineer? – Kristina Valjak

AI UX Patterns for User Trust and AI UX Patterns for User Clarity – Kathryn Grayson Nanz

How to Import and Export CSV Files Using Blazor – Kristina Ismail

Parsing IP addresses in C# at crazy speeds – Daniel Lemire

How I Work With 5 Coding Agents Simultaneously – Michael Shpilt

Building Long-Term Trust with Digital Signatures and Timestamps in C# .NET – Bjoern Meyer

ASP.NET Core Authentication – The Dirty Details 🎥 – Chris Klug

Local AI Models for Cross-Platform .NET with Uno Platform – Sam Basu

Modern C# URI Handling: Absolute, Relative, Query & Fragment URLs – Sebastian Nilsson

Implement BFF using Auth0, Angular and ASP.NET Core – Damien Bod

Consuming MCP Servers from .NET: When Your App Becomes the Client – Juan Gómez

General Performance: Object Initializers – Readability Versus Performance – David McCarter

Pipeline Pattern in C#: A Modern .NET Guide – Nick Cosentino

Top 10 Ways to Reduce .NET Memory Usage in Kubernetes – Steve Smith

Coding Agent Horror Stories: The Command You Already Approved – Ajeet Singh RainaDocumentDB in .NET Orleans – Allan Ritchie

Scaffold: Modern App UI in .NET MAUI – Alberto Aldegheri

Adding Full-Text Search to Blazor WebAssembly with Pagefind – David Pine

☕ Coffee Break

Take a break to catch some fun social posts.

Have you been in a meeting filled with corporate-speak like this? 🤣

The final copy meets the rough draft…

🗞️ JetBrains News

What’s going on at JetBrains? Check it out here:

Register Now for JetBrains GameDev Day 2026

JetBrains .NET Day Online 2026: Save the Date and Submit a Talk

The Rider 2026.3 Early Access Program Is Open

Rider 2026.2.1 and ReSharper 2026.2.1 Are Here!

Rider Hands AI Agents The Keys To Its Refactoring Engine For Safer, Faster, And Cheaper Results

The Ultimate .NET Workflow for Cursor, Antigravity, and AI-First Editors – Isaac Levin

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