DeeDee Walsh

Okay folks, if your projects rely on .NET 7, it's time for a wake up call. Microsoft just dropped the news that .NET 7 is reaching its end of support …

The European Union isn't messing around when it comes to AI regulation. The AI Act just landed a couple weeks ago and it's laying down the law about how we …

Visual Basic: Unraveling the Versions Visual Basic, a programming language born at Microsoft (side note: I was a VB 1.0 product manager. BEST.JOB.EVER.), has transformed A LOT over the years …

The ink's barely dry on Broadcom's acquisition of VMware and already the virtualization landscape is shifting pretty dramatically. Price hikes, product cuts, licensing restrictions and uncertainty about the future make …

ICYMI - .NET 9 is here, and it's looking pretty sharp (I was going to make C# joke but decided against it). This release brings a bunch of good stuff …

What I’ve learned from 12 years of code migrations This is my twelfth year (!) of working on code migrations. And let me tell you, I've seen things. There's a …

As a former Visual Basic product manager (Microsoft alum: 1991-2012 🙂), it pains me to say this... But C# is the crown prince of .NET programming languages. And don't take …

.NET Core, once the shiny new kid on the block, has taken an interesting journey in the world of software development. Its evolution has been marked by leaps and bounds, …

Back in 2021, Mauricio Rojas wrote a post, "Can I use WCF in .NET Core .NET6" which was obviously very interesting to lots of .NET developers. While the original post …

Microsoft released .NET 8 in November 2023, and it was MASSIVE. The last long-term support (LTS) version of .NET - .NET 6 was equally earth-shattering. However, the differences between NET …