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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