by DeeDee Walsh, on Sep 12, 2026, 4:13:56 PM
Why That “Boring” .NET Servicing Drop Matters Most engineers treat monthly runtime servicing posts like terms-of-service agreements: scroll, acknowledge the existence of life and immediately close the tab. Usually, that’s …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Sep 9, 2026, 5:54:27 PM
The real headline of .NET 11 is that the runtime, language, and SDK teams have quietly shipped some of the most pragmatic, blue-collar plumbing fixes in years. Updated Sept 14, …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Sep 5, 2026, 8:06:40 PM
Visual Basic 6 survived Y2K, the dot-com crash, several generations of Windows, the cloud migration wave, and the end of Windows 10 support. Plenty of VB6 applications still run important …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Aug 27, 2026, 9:34:23 AM
GAP analyzes 1,105 inquiries from 120+ countries and publishes the full counts and methodology AUSTIN, Texas, August 27, 2026. GAPVelocity AI, the AI modernization business of Growth Acceleration Partners, today …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Aug 19, 2026, 6:50:24 PM
On July 14, the Polly project announced it was adopting the Open Source Maintenance Fee (OSMF). Polly is the core resilience library that handles retries, circuit breakers, hedging, timeouts, and …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jul 28, 2026, 7:12:37 PM
You’re modernizing. Step one: choose a target platform and prepare to defend it until 2036. When a CTO axes a 400,000-line VB6 monster or a Clinton-era PowerBuilder setup, no one …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jun 24, 2026, 2:49:01 PM
Breaking changes, dependency debt, and where the hours go. Here's a preview for teams planning ahead. With .NET 11 shipping in November 2026 and .NET 8 hitting end-of-life the same …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jun 23, 2026, 12:15:00 AM
On November 10, 2026, both .NET 8 and .NET 9 reach end of support. The same day. That's roughly five months away, and it's a weird situation. Normally, choosing a …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jun 20, 2026, 12:15:00 AM
.NET 11 Preview 5 turns end-of-life and known-CVE status into a build warning. That's an important shift that draws a line between the codebases that participate in modern lifecycle hygiene …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jun 17, 2026, 3:37:43 PM
I watched the full .NET Day Agentic Modernization, and it was fantastic. You should definitely watch it. The GitHub Copilot app modernization agent did legit work: AST-aware project-system migration (packagesconfig …
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