Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching

Aspire 9.4 is here with a CLI and interactive dashboard features - .NET Blog Aspire 9.4 is packed with new features, integrations, and improvements

🎉 A new version of Aspire just shipped, 9.4 and it's one of the biggest releases yet. Very proud of what the team was able to accomplish.

📣 Blog post - devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/annou...

📝 What's new - learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet...

#dotnet #aspire

29.07.2025 18:51 — 👍 58 🔁 15 💬 4 📌 3

I was expecting much more. Maybe you should cross post on other platforms or even host you own blog with a RSS feed 😉 although we might be not that many still using RSS feeds nowadays.

28.07.2025 17:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Nice article as always. I would be curious to know how many views your articles on Aspire get.

28.07.2025 17:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Aspire: A Modern DevOps Toolchain When we first launched Aspire, we knew we were trying to change how developers build distributed applications. But over time, something…

Aspire: A Modern DevOps Toolchain

medium.com/@davidfowl/a...

#aspire #dotnet

28.07.2025 15:11 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Aspire Roadmap (2025 → 2026) · dotnet aspire · Discussion #10644 Hi everyone 💫 We’ve had so much fun building, learning, and Aspirifying with you over the last year. As many of you have noticed, there are lots of exciting things in the works, and we figured it…

Aspire Roadmap (2025 → 2026) | by Maddy Montaquila, David Fowler & the .NET Aspire team.

buff.ly/iyoFga4

#aspire #cloudnative #ai #dotnet #dashboard #telemetry #dotnetaspire #roadmap

24.07.2025 19:01 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Bake a cake in the shape of an animal, each year a different animal.

20.07.2025 06:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Upcoming deprecation of GitHub Command Palette feature preview - GitHub Changelog Starting August 6, 2025, the command palette feature preview will be deprecated and will no longer be available on GitHub. If you currently use the command palette, make sure to…

I'm sad to see the future deprecation of GitHub Command Palette (github.blog/changelog/20...). Usage might be low, but I think the feature brings a lot of value, people are just not aware of it. #github @github.com

17.07.2025 07:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

L'annuaire thématique de la grappe numérique Vous trouverez ci-dessous, classées par thèmes, les 32 communautés de la grappe. Agilité Agile Bordeaux : www.

Hier je parlais de la grappe numérique qui regroupe tout un tas de communautés tech bordelaises. Voici l'annuaire 👉 L'annuaire thématique de la grappe numérique
www.linkedin.com/pulse/lannua...

#grappenumerique #bordeauxtech

04.07.2025 09:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Post LinkedIn annonçant le 1er post de la grappe du numérique

Pour les Bordelais·es dans la tech, laissez-moi vous introduire la grappe numérique qui regroupe une trentaine de communautés du numérique bordelais.

Elle vient de lancer sa page LinkedIn pour regrouper les communications autour du numérique à Bordeaux, n'hésitez pas à la suivre. dripl.ink/4hCQC

02.07.2025 19:49 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Roadmap to v4 · Nuxt Blog We have some exciting news about the roadmap to Nuxt 4, including a new timeline and what to expect in the next few weeks.

we are delighted to announce that nuxt v4 alpha ships TODAY! 🎉

... and we're aiming for a stable release of v4 by the end of the month.

(nuxt v5 will come later this year once nitro v3 is ready)

👉 you can read the full article at nuxt.com/blog/roadma...

02.06.2025 19:57 — 👍 171 🔁 45 💬 5 📌 8

📢 Le prochain meetup c'est demain, le 3 juin avec pas mal de .NET au programme !

☑️ On parlera Tests avec Guillaume Saint Etienne

🔢 On discutera gRPC avec Antoine Delmaere et Xavier Noya

💡 Inscrivez-vous sur meetup.

02.06.2025 11:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Yes exactly!

31.05.2025 17:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Introducing Copilot Spaces: A new way to work with code and context - GitHub Changelog Today’s engineering teams struggle with fragmented knowledge. Having critical context scattered across code, documentation, and inside of team members’ heads can make it hard to get up to speed in…

🚀 New product from GitHub: Copilot Spaces 👉 a place to share context (documentation, code) to others in your organization and let them get the answers from Copilot.

➡️ github.blog/changelog/20...

#github #copilot #githubcopilot #copilotspaces

31.05.2025 14:34 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

dotnet run on an App.cs file

Small but nice addition coming to .NET 10: the ability to run a standalone C# file without project file. Very handy for demos, quick experimentations and new learners.

#dotnet

31.05.2025 14:10 — 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

3- pour avoir une réponse potentiellement plus pertinente que celle de l'IA (les solutions proposées par l'IA peuvent fonctionner sans pour autant respecter les bonnes pratiques)

4- parce qu'on n'a pas arrêté d'écrire de la doc quand tout le monde n'utilisait plus que les moteurs de recherche

22.05.2025 06:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

1- pour soi-même (comme pas mal de personnes l'ont déjà dit)

2- pour celles et ceux qui préfèrent une réponse humaine (même si j'utilise beaucoup les assistants de code, ça ne m'empêche pas de lire des articles et de suivre les flux RSS des blogs qui m'intéressent 😉)

22.05.2025 06:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Windows Advanced settings is here! We restructured the For Developers page and added new features such as File Explorer with version control 🚀

Easily view your Git information directly in columns within File Explorer! 🔥

19.05.2025 16:26 — 👍 136 🔁 42 💬 11 📌 10

Agent mode has arrived in preview for Visual Studio - Visual Studio Blog Agent mode is now in public preview in Visual Studio 17.14, enabling GitHub Copilot to autonomously plan, edit, iterate, and invoke tools to complete coding tasks from a single natural language prompt...

devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

14.05.2025 05:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GitHub Copilot Agent Mode is available in latest versions of Visual Studio. As well as Next Edit Suggestion, MCP Server support, automatic doc generation with ///.
And now VS will be released monthly for more frequent Copilot updates

@visualstudio.com @github.com #copilot #agentmode #visualstudio

14.05.2025 05:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Agent mode is now available in public preview for all users in Visual Studio 17.14. Agent mode lets you define tasks using natural language, with Copilot autonomously planning, editing your codebase, invoking tools, & iterating to resolve issues. Check it out. https://msft.it/63320SZGLa

13.05.2025 22:00 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

A thumbnail with a dark background and the VS Code logo that reads “What’s new in Visual Studio Code April Update [1.100] -Performance improvements in chat -Auto-attach instructions to chat -Reuse prompts for common tasks -Smarter chat responses with GitHub, extensions, and notebook tools -Identify staged changes in editor -Improved multi-window support -Quick create for Python Environments -Image and Streamable HTTP support for MCP servers”

💯 v1.100 of VS Code is here! And we’ve got some great updates for you, like:

- Smarter chat responses with new tools
- Improved multi-window support
- Image and Streamable HTTP support for MCP servers

…and so much more. aka.ms/VSCodeRelease

Here are some of the highlights… 🧵

08.05.2025 17:17 — 👍 108 🔁 23 💬 4 📌 5

Pulumi using one of the supported languages (TypeScript, C#, Go, Python, Java, etc)

06.05.2025 15:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

GitHub - james-gould/azure-keyvault-emulator: A fully featured emulator for Azure Key Vault with .NET Aspire support. A fully featured emulator for Azure Key Vault with .NET Aspire support. - james-gould/azure-keyvault-emulator

💡TIL there was an Azure Key Vault emulator 👉 github.com/james-gould/... #azure #dotnet

02.05.2025 20:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🐣 Le CFP de BDX I/O 2025 est ouvert ! 🎉
Tu as jusqu’au 29 juin 23h59 pour proposer ton talk 🗣️
Tech, retours d’expérience, idées originales : on veut tout !

👉 conference-hall.io/bdx-i-o-2025
#BDXIO #CFP #CallForPapers #TechConference

22.04.2025 08:02 — 👍 24 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 1

It took a bit longer than we'd hoped, but here we go - the .NET Aspire Community Toolkit 9.4 release is out, with support for Aspire 9.2! github.com/CommunityToo...

#dotnet #aspire

20.04.2025 08:21 — 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

Understanding and mitigating security risks in MCP implementations | Microsoft Community Hub Introducing any new technology can introduce new security challenges or exacerbate existing security risks. In this blog post, we’re going to look at some of...

Great blog on security considerations for those playing with MCP:
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microso...

16.04.2025 22:34 — 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0

Pulumi + Azure Series: A Developer’s Perspective We live in an era where news and data are everywhere — instantly available, constantly updated, and often overwhelming. In software circles, every tool has its own fan base, community, stack of blog posts, and even full-blown evangelists. Yet somehow, Pulumi has always felt a bit underappreciated to me. Maybe it’s because it’s not as widely adopted as Terraform, or maybe because it’s relatively young. Either way, I’ve felt a growing urge to share how genuinely powerful it is — especially when combined with Azure, the cloud I work with the most. Pulumi isn’t limited to Azure, of course. It has great support for AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and many other providers. But for this series, we’ll be focusing on real-world scenarios in Azure, because that’s where I’ve spent most of my time, and where Pulumi has truly helped me streamline and modernize how I build infrastructure. ## 💻 Why This Series Matters (Especially if You’re a Dev) Infrastructure is part of our jobs now — even if you don’t have “DevOps” in your title. Pulumi lets you stay in your language, use your tools, and build infrastructure as if you’re coding features — not writing declarations. Some time ago, I wrote an article about .NET Aspire and how it’s expanding a developer’s responsibilities into the infrastructure space: .NET Aspire: Bridging the Gap Between Application and Infrastructure. Aspire makes it clear: developers are no longer just writing APIs or frontends — they’re owning how those pieces run in the real world. Things like service discovery, environment configuration, diagnostics, and containerization are now just normal dev tasks. But even outside of Aspire or .NET, this shift is happening everywhere. Developers today often need to spin up queues, databases, storage accounts, or set up secure communication between microservices. And let’s be honest — waiting on another team to provision these, or managing them manually through the Azure Portal, is not scalable or fun. With Pulumi, you can own those pieces with the same tools and patterns you already use: * You can write infra using TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, or your team’s stack. * You can commit it to Git, test it, refactor it, and review it like any other code. * You don’t need to switch between a DSL like Bicep or write giant YAML files. That’s a big deal. Pulumi doesn’t ask you to become an infrastructure engineer overnight. It just lets you take ownership of the parts that are closest to your applications — things like: * Your app’s hosting environment (App Service, Function, Container App) * Connected services (Redis, CosmosDB, Storage) * Communication and messaging layers (Kafka, Event Hubs, Service Bus, SignalR) * Identity and secrets * It’s about bringing infrastructure closer to the people who understand the app best — you. ## 🔧 What You Can Expect from This Series Here’s a glimpse of what’s coming: * How to set up your first Pulumi project with Azure Deploying real-world infrastructure (App Services, Functions, Storage, AKS, etc.) * Writing reusable Pulumi components for Azure * Managing environments and secrets with Pulumi configs * CI/CD pipelines and automation for IaC * Tips, gotchas, and Pulumi tricks I’ve learned along the way Whether you’re new to Pulumi or just curious about a different approach to Azure infrastructure, I hope this series will help you see what’s possible when you combine real code with cloud automation. Let’s get started 🚀 👉 Next up: Pulumi + Azure: Setting Up Your First Project

20.04.2025 18:46 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

GitHub Copilot Highlights in Visual Studio 17.14 Preview 3 (Available Now) - Visual Studio Blog Explore the latest GitHub Copilot updates in Visual Studio 17.14 Preview 3, including a guided walkthrough, next edit suggestions, adaptive paste, and new AI model support.

🤖 Lots of nice new features around GitHub Copilot in the latest preview Visual Studio 👉 devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

#githubcopilot #visualstudio #github

17.04.2025 10:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Build MCP Remote Servers with Azure Functions - .NET Blog Build AI-powered tools quickly using Azure Functions to create remote MCP servers that seamlessly integrate with GitHub Copilot and other LLM-based applications.

📑 Nice post about using Azure Functions to build MCP Servers: devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/build...
#azure #mcp #azurefunctions #dotnet

17.04.2025 09:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New in Pulumi: AI, Components, Azure V3 & More

✨Latest Monthly Pulumi Newsletter 👉 info.pulumi.com/new-in-pulum...

🤖 Pulumi Model Context Protocol 👉 Generate code or provision infra directly from AI Coding assistants
👩‍💻 Pulumi Components 👉 Reusable building blocks that work across languages (including YAML)
☁️ Azure Native V3

#pulumi #azure

15.04.2025 18:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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