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A hands-on look at Visual Studio 2026 Insiders after two months of daily use: Fluent UI refresh, faster F5, Mermaid in Markdown/Copilot, Copilot MCP and BYO model, GitHub workflows in-IDE, profiling with BenchmarkDotNet + Profiler Agent, Podman support, and Code Coverage in Community/Pro.
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Chat, Function Calling, Structured Outputs, Streaming, and Assistants End-to-end guide to Azure OpenAI for .NET developers: chat/completions, streaming, function calling, structured outputs (JSON Schema), and Assistants with the Microsoft Agent Framework.
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Master the Options Pattern in .NET for type-safe configuration management with validation, change notifications, and dependency injection integration.
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Master Dependency Injection (DI) and Inversion of Control (IoC) in .NET 9 - core principles for creating flexible, testable, and maintainable C# applications.
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The Strangler Fig pattern, named by Martin Fowler in 2004, incrementally replaces a legacy system by growing a new application around its edges. How it works, when to use it, and how to run the migration without a big-bang rewrite.
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Learn the Facade Design Pattern with practical examples including a comprehensive financial system implementation that simplifies complex subsystems.
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Learn the Strategy Design Pattern with theoretical and concrete examples including a payment processing system implementation.
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Learn the State Design Pattern with theoretical and concrete examples including an audio player implementation.
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