Mitch's Blog

Recently, when setting up CI/CD for a .NET MAUI project, I had a heck of a time getting what should have been a simple command to build, nothing like a bit of debugging issues to waste an afternooon. So I thought I'd spare everyone the hassle and share my experience hoping it helps you out!

Blazor provides a number of helpful utilities to manage content and flows within your application, but at times you may encounter conflicts, especially when individual pages need to override items set at the Layout or even app level. A great example of this is SEO inclusions. Sections are your friend for this situation. Let's dive in!

Agents are all the rage today, but what happens when we start using multiple agents together? Can we improve the overall accuracy of our results? Can we reduce the total time to develop a feature? Let's dig in and find out!

Humanizer is a great open source library for taking things that aren't human friendly and making them human friendly, and it has amazing support for different locales and such. However, the default installation package includes a LOT of languages, and many times individuals are overwhelmed with the clutter that happens with it. Lets explore some procedures that you can use to trim this down.

A few months ago I discussed some basic configuration elements for the then "freshly released" Copilot Coding Agents. A lot has happened in the last 4-6 months, and I thought it would be worthwhile to revisit things a bit and show how to get started with your projects.

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.

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?

I'm an avid supporter of Open Source software; I maintain multiple projects, contribute to others, and sponsor developers across numerous projects I use or care about. However, there has been a recent trend in license changes with open source software that create a unique and real risk to companies and development teams that could go unnoticed and result in a catastrophic impact on organizations. Let's explore how we select, integrate, and manage the usage of third-party solutions.

There are many discussions regarding the cadence of upgrades and the burden of keeping up to date with the .NET releases, but that is all a topic for another day. Today, I want to take a moment and talk about the unsung heroes of constant updates: improved performance!