Matthew D. Groves

I like it, except... you would need one for every OS, or else no cross-platform support?

Creating Your Own MSBuild SDK - It's Easier Than You Think! An MSBuild SDK is basically a NuGet package that automatically imports .props and .targets files into your project. That's it. That's the whole thing.

#CSAdvent post 1 for December 25, 2025!

"Creating Your Own MSBuild SDK - It's Easier Than You Think!" by @codingwithcalvin.net

codingwithcalvin.net/creating-you...

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#CSAdvent post 2 for December 25, 2025!

"String Interning" by @flash0ver.bsky.social

github.com/Flash0ver/do...

#dotnet #csharp

Santa's AI Chat App - Building a Festive Chat Application with RAG and .NET Templates In this blog post, we explore how to build a Santa Chat application using AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with the latest Microsoft.Extensions.AI project templates. Discover how to leverag...

#CSAdvent post 2 for December 23, 2025!

"Santa's AI Chat App" by @kylemcmaster.com

blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/santas...

#dotnet #csharp

The .NET Cross-Platform Showdown: MAUI vs Uno vs Avalonia (And Why Avalonia Won) I've been writing .NET code since the first beta. Over three decades of professional development,...

#CSAdvent post 1 for December 23, 2025!

"The .NET Cross-Platform Showdown: MAUI/WinUI vs Uno vs Avalonia (And Why Avalonia Won)" by @biozal.bsky.social

dev.to/biozal/the-n...

#dotnet #csharp

Api Versioning - A deep dive

#CSAdvent post 2 for December 22, 2025!

"Api Versioning - A deep dive" by @irina.codes

irina.codes/api-versioni...

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#CSAdvent post 2 for December 21, 2025!

"Over the River and Through the Woods" by @timpurdum.dev

timpurdum.dev/post/2025/12...

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#CSAdvent post 1 for December 21, 2025!

"Functional Programming with C# -The Mondas Were Here the Whole Time!" by Simon Painter (www.linkedin.com/in/simon-pai...)

www.thecodepainter.co.uk/blog/2025122...

#dotnet #csharp

Bringing the DOOM to Uno Platform Let's answer the most pressing question in software development: Can Uno Platform run DOOM?

#CSAdvent post 2 for December 20, 2025!

"Bringing the DOOM to Uno Platform" by Martin Zikmund (www.linkedin.com/in/mzikmund/)

mzikmund.dev/blog/bringin...

#dotnet #csharp @platform.uno

Getting Started with Couchbase Enterprise Analytics SDK Introduction Couchbase Enterprise Analytics is a new server from Couchbase that specializes in complex queries on data from multiple sources. It’s not an operational database, but a highly scalable…

#CSAdvent post 1 for December 20, 2025!

"Getting Started with Couchbase Enterprise Analytics SDK" by Jeff Morris (www.linkedin.com/in/jeffscott...)

jeffrymorris.net/2025/12/20/g...

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#CSAdvent post 2 for December 19, 2025!

"Agent orchestration with Microsoft Agent Framework" by @thesoccerdev.bsky.social

www.thesoccerdev.com/agent-orches...

#dotnet #csharp

Building an AI-Powered Form Assistant with Blazor Create an AI assistant that guides users through completing RMA forms using natural language, JSON schema validation and real-time form binding in Blazor.

#CSAdvent post 1 for December 19, 2025!

"Building an AI-Powered Form Assistant with Blazor" by @edcharbeneau.bsky.social

www.telerik.com/blogs/buildi...

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[C# Tip] How to create and access custom C# Attributes by using Reflection In C#, Attributes are a handy mechanism to attach metadata to your classes, methods, properties, etc. In this article, we will see how to create custom Attributes and access them at runtime using Refl...

#CSAdvent post 2 for December 18, 2025!

"How to create and access custom C# Attributes by using Reflection" by @bellonedavide.bsky.social

www.code4it.dev/csharptips/c...

#dotnet #csharp

From Spec to Santa: My C#‑Powered Christmas Story Generator Experiment In this article, I will explain how I built a website to generate Christmas Stories my almost 5-year-old daughter using C# and AI related technologies (GitHub Spec Kit, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft.Exten...

#CSAdvent post 1 for December 18, 2025!

"From Spec to Santa: My C#‑Powered Christmas Story Generator Experiment" by @techwatching.bsky.social

techwatching.dev/posts/christ...

#dotnet #csharp

From Spec to Santa: My C#‑Powered Christmas Story Generator Experiment In this article, I will explain how I built a website to generate Christmas Stories my almost 5-year-old daughter using C# and AI related technologies (GitHub Spec Kit, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft.Exten...

And here is my C# Advent post 👉 techwatching.dev/posts/christ...
Or how I created a Christmas story generator using GitHub Spec Kit.
@csadvent.christmas #aspire #dotnet #github

EF Core 10 Turns PostgreSQL into a Hybrid Relational-Document DB - Trailhead Technology Partners Discover how EF Core 10 and PostgreSQL JSONB make it easy to model flexible, schema-evolving data in a hybrid relational–document db.

#CSAdvent post 2 for December 16, 2025!

"EF Core 10 Turns PostgreSQL into a Hybrid Relational-Document DB" by Stefan Mitic (trailheadtechnology.com/author/stefa...)

trailheadtechnology.com/ef-core-10-t...

#dotnet #csharp

Manufacturing Certainty: Load Testing with Azure Load Testing - Trailhead Technology Partners Load testing using Azure Load Test prevents significant production issues and bolsters the confidence of technology-driven businesses.

#CSAdvent post 1 for December 16, 2025!

"Manufacturing Certainty: Load Testing with Azure Load Testing" by Andy Wilson (www.linkedin.com/in/andy-wils...)

trailheadtechnology.com/manufacturin...

#dotnet #csharp

Also, today is a DOUBLE @trailheadtech.bsky.social day. Trailhead overall has been a great #csadvent partner through the life of #csadvent, so this is a special shoutout to them.

Over halfway through #csadvent this year, and it's been going great! Due mainly to:

1. Contributors getting their (excellent) entries in on time
2. Great behind-the-scenes work by @codingwithcalvin.net

Thank you!

#CSAdvent post 2 for December 15, 2025!

"TUnit: The New Sheriff in Town for .NET Testing" by Vladan Petrovic (www.linkedin.com/in/vladan-pe...)

trailheadtechnology.com/tunit-the-ne...

#dotnet #csharp

Sentiment Analysis in C#: Azure AI Language or LLMs - Trailhead Technology Partners Explore the shift from traditional sentiment analysis to LLMs in C#, using Azure AI and OpenAI for improved accuracy and nuanced insights.

#CSAdvent post 1 for December 15, 2025!

"Sentiment Analysis in C#: Azure AI Language or LLMs" by @rodrigojuarez.com

trailheadtechnology.com/sentiment-an...

#dotnet #csharp

#CSAdvent post 2 for December 14, 2025!

"Dynamically Changing Decimal & Thousand Separators At Runtime" by Conrad Akunga (www.linkedin.com/in/conrad-ak...)

www.conradakunga.com/blog/dynamic...

#dotnet #csharp

16 Tips for Writing AI-Ready C# Code 16 practical tips for optimizing your C# codebase to work seamlessly with AI coding assistants like Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code, covering foundational practices, structural patterns, and C# langu...

#CSAdvent post 1 for December 14, 2025!

"16 Tips for Writing AI-Ready C# Code" by Matt Eland (www.linkedin.com/in/matteland/)

accessibleai.dev/post/writing...

#dotnet #csharp

#CSAdvent post 2 for December 13, 2025!

"C# Advent 2025 - Extension Members by @barretblake.dev

barretblake.dev/posts/develo...

#dotnet #csharp

Sending Holiday Cheer in .NET with Scriban and MailKit - Trailhead Technology Partners See how you can use the Scriban scripting language and engine to template emails and send them with MailKit in .NET.

#CSAdvent post 1 for December 13, 2025!

"Sending Holiday Cheer in .NET with Scriban and MailKit" by John Waters (www.linkedin.com/in/john-wate...)

trailheadtechnology.com/sending-holi...

#dotnet #csharp

Modern .NET with Uno Platform & AI A look at modern .NET development with Uno Platform & AI

#CSAdvent post 1 for December 12, 2025!

"Modern .NET with Uno Platform & AI" by @samidip.bsky.social

platform.uno/blog/modern-...

#dotnet #csharp

#CSAdvent post 2 for December 12, 2025!

"Getting Started with the Aspire CLI" by @chris-ayers.com

chris-ayers.com/2025/12/11/a...

#dotnet #csharp

Sending sweet treats with Google Pub/Sub | Poornima Nayar A simple guide to Google Pub/Sub messaging with .NET —publishers, subscribers and retries

#CSAdvent post 2 for December 11, 2025!

"Sending sweet treats with Google Pub/Sub" by @poornimanayar.bsky.social

poornimanayar.co.uk/blog/sending...

#dotnet #csharp

2 code a Roslyn Source Generator - C# Advent Calendar 2025 YouTube video by FlashOWare

#CSAdvent post 1 for December 11, 2025!

"2 code a Roslyn Source Generator" by @flashoware.bsky.social (live stream starts at 18:00 UTC, December 11th)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB37...

#dotnet #csharp

Create your MCP Server using Azure Functions With the growing number of frameworks and tools for creating MCP servers, especially within the .NET technology stack, Azure Functions emerges as a valuable new option. As is customary with Azure Func...

#CSAdvent post 2 for December 10, 2025!

"Create your MCP Server using Azure Functions" by @jorgelevy.net

www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/crea...

#dotnet #csharp