DeeDee Walsh

While everyone's talking about the sexy features in .NET 10 - C# 14's extension members, Blazor improvements, and performance boosts - there's a ton of lesser-known features that deserve your …

What's Still Alive, What's on Life Support, and What's Six Feet Under Old, outdated code - the gift that keeps on giving... headaches. If you're managing applications built with Visual …

As someone who spends their days working with VB6 forms, PowerBuilder DataWindows, and Clarion templates, I'll admit that when I first heard about Microsoft's Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, my …

We attended MS Build 2025 and learned a lot about what's most important to Microsoft. In this blog post we outline the highlights. We also wrote more indepth posts about …

Imagine this: you have a legacy application that's old enough to vote, still rocking VB6 (or its younger sibling, WinForms) and you're dreading the rewrite that everyone keeps telling you …

Back in the dark ages of 1991, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and dial-up was king, I was living the dream as a product manager for Visual Basic. Seriously, GREATEST …

2025 Edition Let's talk about what makes a great .NET app in 2025. I've been in the trenches of .NET since the Framework days (I knew Scottgu when he was …

Updated for .NET 10 Previews 2 and 3 The .NET 10 Preview has officially arrived, and with it come a bunch of sweet features - some small but super powerful, …

Did you catch Santiago Arango from GAP at the "Best of .NET Conf" livestream with Jeff Fritz (@csharpfritz)? If not, you missed out on some seriously cool AI live coding …

I keep hearing about the miracle of Agentic AI — the insanely smart artificial intelligence systems that don’t just answer your questions or wait around for instructions. Yup. These AI …