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EF Core 10.0: Support for Partially Updating JSON Columns with ExecuteUpdate/ExecuteUpdateAsync .NET, ASP.NET Core, Visual Studio, Azure, Jaliya Udagedara

Jaliya Udagedara always publishes excellent content on his blog!

Latest installment: EF Core 10.0: Support for Partially Updating JSON Columns with ExecuteUpdate/ExecuteUpdateAsync

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#dotnet #efcore

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Let's look at the improvements we've made in Search in Visual Studio 2026.
Visual Studio Toolbox walks us through them.
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#VSToolbox #VisualStudio

Introducing Custom Agents for .NET Developers: C# Expert & WinForms Expert - .NET Blog Introducing C# Expert and WinForms Expert: experimental custom agents that help .NET developers write better code with GitHub Copilot.

Introducing Custom Agents for .NET Developers: C# Expert & WinForms Expert

Looking forward to the release of .NET 10, watching #dotnetconf and sharing my session "Let's create an MCP Server from our .NET tool - and improve our SQL scripts with Copilot"
#dotnet #mcp #mvpbuzz

1.5 million installs of my free SQLite Toolbox extension for Visual Studio - unbelievable! If YOU use SQLite with Visual Studio, you should try it out.

SQL Database Project Power Tools - Visual Studio Marketplace Extension for Visual Studio - Tools to enhance the SQL Database Projects developer experience, including Project and Item templates, Import existing databases, create E/R diagrams and much more.

New release of my SQL Project Power Tools extension for enhancing the SQL Projects developer experience in Visual Studio - now with simple schema compare for SDK style projects
#sqlserver #dotnet #visualstudio

Releases · ErikEJ/SqlQueryStress SQL query stress simulator created by Adam Machanic http://dataeducation.com/sqlquerystress-the-source-code/ - ErikEJ/SqlQueryStress

Do you use the SQL Server stress testing tool that I maintain? Make sure to get the latest version, with support for SQL Server 2025 and Fabric SQL database & built-in update check.
#sqlserver #dotnet #performance

Announcing Sponsorship on NuGet.org - .NET Blog Announcing Sponsorship on NuGet.org - An easy way to recognize package maintainers and grow the NuGet community stronger!

Announcing Sponsorship on NuGet.org

Upgrading to Microsoft Agent Framework in Your .NET AI Chat App - .NET Blog Step-by-step review on how to upgrade your .NET AI chat app to Microsoft Agent Framework for better architecture, tool integration, and intelligent reasoning.

Upgrading to Microsoft Agent Framework in Your .NET AI Chat App

Add ability to skip .dacpac deployment by ErikEJ · Pull Request #896 · CommunityToolkit/Aspire if metadata in the target database indicates that the database has already been deployed fixes #860 Smoke tested with: var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args); var server = builde...

Just added the ability to make your Aspire AppHost start much faster with SQL Database Projects by skipping deployment when not needed - .WithSkipWhenDeployed()
#dotnet #dotnetaspire #sqlserver

SQL Database Project Power Pack - Visual Studio Marketplace Extension for Visual Studio - An extension pack that contains 'SQL Database Project Power Tools', 'T-SQL Analyzer' and 'SQL Formatter' to improve the SQL Database Project developer experience.

Level up your SQL Database project experience with the "SQL Database Project Power Pack" - with cross platform & NuGet support, live code analysis & formatting with .editorconfg settings
#visualstudio #sqlserver #dotnet

Add ability to skip .dacpac deployment by ErikEJ · Pull Request #896 · CommunityToolkit/Aspire if metadata in the target database indicates that the database has already been deployed fixes #860 Smoke tested with: var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args); var server = builde...

Just added the ability to make your Aspire AppHost start much faster with SQL Database Projects by skipping deployment when not needed - .WithSkipWhenDeployed()
#dotnet #dotnetaspire #sqlserver

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Just blogged: Reduce SQL Database Project deployment time from minutes to single digit seconds with DacDeploySkip
#dotnet #sqlserver #deployment #devops
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Just blogged: Get a 180% speed increase on large async reads with Microsoft .Data.SqlClient (and EF Core) - here is how to turn it on!
#dotnet #efcore #sqlserver #performance
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If you suffer under slow blob reads with SqlClient, try out 7.0 preview 2!
#dotnet #sqlserver

.NET and .NET Framework October 2025 servicing releases updates - .NET Blog A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for October 2025.

.NET and .NET Framework October 2025 servicing releases updates

Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 2 - .NET Blog .NET 10 Release Candidate 2 focuses on final quality, reliability, and stabilization across the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more.

Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 2

Announcing the .NET Security Group - .NET Blog Learn how to join the .NET Security Group for early access to CVE information and help deliver security patches to your .NET distribution simultaneously with Microsoft.

Announcing the .NET Security Group

Do you deploy your SQL Database Projects with a CD pipeline, and notice that .dacpac deployments take sooo much time - even when nothing changes? Working on a solution (down to milliseconds) - but I need your help to verify it. Please reply or contact me via GitHub if you are interested.

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📣 .NET Conf is on its way!! 🎉
Celebrate and learn about what you can do with .NET 10 at the biggest .NET virtual event in the world!
November 11-13 〰️ Save the date
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#dotNETConf

Preparing for the .NET 10 GC (DATAS) - .NET Blog Learn how DATAS in .NET 10 adapts heap size, what changes to expect versus previous Server Garbage Collection (GC) behavior, and how to decide whether to tune or disable it.

Preparing for the .NET 10 GC (DATAS)

Developer and AI Code Reviewer: Reviewing AI-Generated Code in .NET - .NET Blog Learn how to effectively review AI-generated .NET code with practical strategies for maintaining quality, enforcing standards, and boosting team productivity through thoughtful code review practices.

Developer and AI Code Reviewer: Reviewing AI-Generated Code in .NET

SQL Database Project Power Tools - Visual Studio Marketplace Extension for Visual Studio - Tools to enhance the SQL Database Projects developer experience, including Project and Item templates, Import existing databases, create E/R diagrams and much more.

New release of "SQL Project Power Tools" - new features:
- import of database settings
- support for Microsoft.Build.Sql projects
#sqlserver #visualstudio
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SQLite and SQL Server Compact Toolbox - Visual Studio Marketplace Extension for Visual Studio - SQLite / SQL Server Compact Toolbox extension for Visual Studio. This extension adds several features to help your embedded database development efforts: Scripting of…

New release of SQLite Toolbox for Visual Studio with support for Visual Studio 2026 Insiders - if you use SQLite in Visual Studio you need this (like 1.5 million current users!!)
#dotnet #sqlite #visualstudio

Release notes SQLite & SQL Server Compact Toolbox extension for Visual Studio, SSMS (and stand alone) - ErikEJ/SqlCeToolbox

Do you use SQLite Toolbox with Visual Studio 2026? - please help me confirm that it no longer crashes when adding a new SQLite connection. Download and try the latest daily build:
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Introducing 'SQL Project Power Tools' - create, import, diagram and analyze SQL database projects in Visual Studio In this blog post I will introduce you to a new free and open source Visual Studio extension SQL Project Power Tools, that I maintain.

Introducing 'SQL Project Power Tools' - create, import, diagram and analyze SQL database projects in Visual Studio - a collection of tools to improve developer UX in Visual Studio 2026 and 2022
#dotnet #sqlserver #visualstudio
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Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview): Making AI Agents Simple for Every Developer - .NET Blog Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview) unifies agent creation, orchestration, tooling, hosting, and observability so any .NET developer can ship production AI agents faster.

Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview): Making AI Agents Simple for Every Developer

Not currently, no. Is possible via EF Core Power Tools CLI though. Feel free to create an issue

Introducing 'SQL Project Power Tools' - create, import, diagram and analyze SQL database projects in Visual Studio In this blog post I will introduce you to a new free and open source Visual Studio extension SQL Project Power Tools, that I maintain.

Introducing 'SQL Project Power Tools' - create, import, diagram and analyze SQL database projects in Visual Studio - a collection of tools to improve developer UX in Visual Studio 2026 and 2022
#dotnet #sqlserver #visualstudio
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