Mitchel Sellers

With the first preview of .NET 11 released, I'm excited to hear your thoughts! What's your favorite improvement? Share in the comments below! 👇✨ #DotNet11 #DeveloperCommunity #TechUpdates #Programming

Submitted my session ideas for #kcdc26! Looking forward to another great year of this great event, hope to be speaking there as well! #mvpbuzz

Episode 006 - Customer Horror Stories - The Lost Domain Customer Horror Stories – The Lost Domain Tech Vault with Mitchel Sellers featuring special guest Laurie Barrett from The Social Bark Losing access to your own website domain… it sounds like something that should never happen. Yet, it’s one of the most terrifying — and surprisingly common — situations businesses face. In this episode of The Tech Vault, Mitchel Sellers is joined by Laurie Barrett, owner of The Social Bark, to explore shocking real-world domain mishaps. From expired registrations and vanishing DNS records to unauthorized ownership and digital hostage situations… these stories are ones every business leader should hear. 🎯 What you’ll learn: How critical your domain truly is to your business identity Real stories about how domains get lost — and the fallout Best practices to ensure YOU stay in control Steps to recover a lost domain and prevent future risk Whether your company is small or scaling fast, this episode will help you avoid becoming the next horror story. 🛠️ Stay informed. Stay secure. Stay in control. 🔗 Learn More & Connect IowaComputerGurus: www.iowacomputergurus.com Mitchel Sellers: www.mitchelsellers.com The Social Bark: www.thesocialbark.com #websitedomain #websitesetup #ownership #technology #digitalsecurity

What happens when you lose your domain? 😱
Join Me + guest Laurie Barrett from The Social Bark as we unpack real customer horror stories and how to avoid becoming the next one!
Watch now: youtu.be/dSDtk_w1Sj8 #ilearnedfromthat #domainsecurity #whatnottodo

What's your favorite #dotnet #ai feature that has been released this year? Why?

Episode 006 - Customer Horror Stories - The Lost Domain Customer Horror Stories – The Lost Domain Tech Vault with Mitchel Sellers featuring special guest Laurie Barrett from The Social Bark Losing access to your own website domain… it sounds like something that should never happen. Yet, it’s one of the most terrifying — and surprisingly common — situations businesses face. In this episode of The Tech Vault, Mitchel Sellers is joined by Laurie Barrett, owner of The Social Bark, to explore shocking real-world domain mishaps. From expired registrations and vanishing DNS records to unauthorized ownership and digital hostage situations… these stories are ones every business leader should hear. 🎯 What you’ll learn: How critical your domain truly is to your business identity Real stories about how domains get lost — and the fallout Best practices to ensure YOU stay in control Steps to recover a lost domain and prevent future risk Whether your company is small or scaling fast, this episode will help you avoid becoming the next horror story. 🛠️ Stay informed. Stay secure. Stay in control. 🔗 Learn More & Connect IowaComputerGurus: www.iowacomputergurus.com Mitchel Sellers: www.mitchelsellers.com The Social Bark: www.thesocialbark.com #websitedomain #websitesetup #ownership #technology #digitalsecurity

A vanished domain. A frantic business owner. A nightmare that could happen to YOU.
New Tech Vault episode with Laurie Barrett!
See the full story 👇https://youtu.be/dSDtk_w1Sj8 #techsecurity #domains #businessownership

Arbitrary SQL, Migrations & Idempotent Scripting I'm a huge fan of Entity Framework Migrations, using them for almost all client projects. In a given week, I will see dozens of changes deploy to production successfully across our portfolio of projects. However, there is always that "one task" that results in a failure and each time it happens it triggers an update to our internal training and review processes, and it has to do with repeatable scripting and the use of the "idempotent" flag. I thought I'd share our experiences with everyone, to help prevent issues for others.

Entity Framework is awesome, but idepotent scripting can sometimes trip up development teams. Learn from my mistakes with some best practices tips for custom migration activities for #efcore migrations mitchelsellers.com/blog/article... #mvpbuzz #learnfromme

Arbitrary SQL, Migrations & Idempotent Scripting I'm a huge fan of Entity Framework Migrations, using them for almost all client projects. In a given week, I will see dozens of changes deploy to production successfully across our portfolio of projects. However, there is always that "one task" that results in a failure and each time it happens it triggers an update to our internal training and review processes, and it has to do with repeatable scripting and the use of the "idempotent" flag. I thought I'd share our experiences with everyone, to help prevent issues for others.

Entity Framework is awesome, but idepotent scripting can sometimes trip up development teams. Learn from my mistakes with some best practices tips for custom migration activities for #efcore migrations mitchelsellers.com/blog/article... #mvpbuzz #learnfromme

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Join me on August 28th, at 6:15 Central for my virtual presentation for the Tulsa Developers Association on API Documentation with .NET 9.0! bit.ly/41gOHs #mvpbuzz hope to see you there

I love getting conference feedback, its even better when it is positive! ""The information about Maui was very interesting and Mitch's enthusiasm was infectious!!" from my .NET MAUI Blazor training at @DevUpConf

Excited to be speaking at #DevUp2025 this week! I have a 1/2 day .NET MAUI Blazor Training session, a conference talk about API Documentation, and a final talk about reducing boilerplate code with API Consumers! Hope to see you there!

Using the Visual Studio Memory Usage Tool Microsoft MVP Mitchel Sellers shows how to use the Visual Studio Memory Usage tool to monitor your app's memory use and find the root causes of memory issues. ⌚ Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 02:35 Overview of memory profiling 13:35 Demo comparing good and bad code techniques and their effect on memory 16:50 Using the Diagnostic Tools window 17:55 Viewing the Process Memory chart 18:25 Viewing Events, Counters, Memory Usage and CPU Usage 21:00 Taking a baseline Snapshot and viewing the Garbage Collection Heap 22:30 Executing bad and good code techniques and seeing the results 26:10 Viewing dead objects 32:45 Discussion of memory and performance profiling 34:25 Wrap-up 🔗 Learn more about this tool at: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/profiling/memory-usage-without-debugging2 Check out Mitchel's GitHub repo at: https://github.com/mitchelsellers/memorydiagnosisexample 🎙️ Featuring: Leslie Richardson and Mitchel Sellers #visualstudio #debugging

I had a great time as a guest on #VisualStudioToolbox talking about Memory Profiling & diagnostics within Visual Studio! www.youtube.com/watch #mvpbuzz

Honored to be renewed into the #microsoftmvp community for my 17th year! It is a great honor. Congrats to all others new and renewed! #mvpbuzz

Injecting Organization Knowledge Into GitHub Copilot Agents With the recent preview release of GitHub CoPilot Agents, the importance of proper instructions for the agents is as important as it ever has been. But how do I effectively manage this when we have limits on the prompting depth and what items it has access to?

GitHub Copilot Agents are new, exciting, and greatly powerful! Providing accurate and detailed instructional prompts is critical to successful outcomes. Let's explore some concepts to make this happen mitchelsellers.com/blog/article... #github #copilot #mvpbuzz #ai

Well #msbuild2025 is over for me. It was great. So much new stuff so many new things to blog about. #mvpbuxz

Using the Visual Studio Memory Usage Tool Microsoft MVP Mitchel Sellers shows how to use the Visual Studio Memory Usage tool to monitor your app's memory use and find the root causes of memory issues. ⌚ Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 02:35 Overview of memory profiling 13:35 Demo comparing good and bad code techniques and their effect on memory 16:50 Using the Diagnostic Tools window 17:55 Viewing the Process Memory chart 18:25 Viewing Events, Counters, Memory Usage and CPU Usage 21:00 Taking a baseline Snapshot and viewing the Garbage Collection Heap 22:30 Executing bad and good code techniques and seeing the results 26:10 Viewing dead objects 32:45 Discussion of memory and performance profiling 34:25 Wrap-up 🔗 Learn more about this tool at: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/profiling/memory-usage-without-debugging2 Check out Mitchel's GitHub repo at: https://github.com/mitchelsellers/memorydiagnosisexample 🎙️ Featuring: Leslie Richardson and Mitchel Sellers #visualstudio #debugging

I had a great time as a guest on #VisualStudioToolbox talking about Memory Profiling & diagnostics within Visual Studio! www.youtube.com/watch... #mvpbuzz

Do I have anyone in my network that is familiar with ReSpawn that would like to help with a small Open Source Project enhancement? if so, reach out to me, I'd love to chat.

Come see me Saturday at 1:15 PM @ #OrlandoCodeCamp to hear me talk about .NET 9 API Documentation with Swagger and more! Hope to see you there!

Finished submitting my 2025 #MicrosoftMVP Renewal Application! One of these years I'll have that information better prepared, or even loaded BEFORE the time that I need it #mvpbuzz

Had a great time at #vslive in Las Vegas this week, speaking about Productive Distributed Team management and configuration. It was a great event at a great location. I look forward to future events this year #mvpbuzz #technology

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I’m honored to be a judge for the 2025 #ImagineCup Minimum Viable Product round and witness students build startups with AI and Microsoft technologies. The future of innovation is in their hands and I’m excited to see what comes next! ✨Learn more: https://aka.ms/2025ImagineCup

Limiting risk of software license changes and open-source software. 🚀
👉 Read the full article here: https://mitchelsellers.com/blog/article/limiting-risk-with-open-source-consumption

#OpenSource #RiskManagement #SoftwareDevelopment #TechTips

I'm a huge supporter of #opensource, but I will stay that swapping of licenses on packages without notification or other pathways really make me question our usage, or support, of certain libraries. Starting today I am stopping usage of a library due to a sneaky license change.

Its that time of year! Submitting session topics to my favorite events of the year! Hope to see folks at events this year #kcdc #devup #vslive #mvpbuzz Which events are you looking forward to?

Ok, I'll give in and share here too! Maybe #aviation posts, maybe #dotnetcore posts, or all of the above! For now, here is an airplane picture from earlier tonight #flying #cirruslife