The .NET Insider – Issue 10

Your Digest of .NET Updates, Tools, and Insights.

Author

Levan Jintcharadze
May 05, 2025

Deep Dive into .NET Updates.

Introducing the Azure MCP Server

Microsoft announces the public preview of the Azure Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, enabling AI agents to leverage Azure resources like file storage, database querying, and CLI commands. This open-source project aims to streamline AI integration with Azure services.

📝—by Rohit Ganguly

Preview 2 of the .NET AI Template Now Available

The second preview of the .NET AI Chat Web App template introduces support for .NET Aspire and integration with the Qdrant vector database, simplifying the creation of cloud-native AI-powered chat applications.

📝—By Jordan Matthiesen

Build MCP Remote Servers with Azure Functions

This article guides developers on creating remote MCP servers using Azure Functions, facilitating seamless integration with GitHub Copilot and other LLM-based applications. It highlights the use of the Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.Extensions.Mcp NuGet package.

📝—By Matt Soucoup

Building Real‑Time iOS Apps with SignalR: Introducing the Official Swift Client (Public Preview)

Microsoft introduces the official SignalR Swift client in public preview, allowing iOS developers to add real-time features like chat and live dashboards to their apps without relying on community-built solutions.

📝—By Kevin Guo

Introducing the AI Dev Gallery: Your Gateway to Local AI Development with .NET

The AI Dev Gallery is a Windows application that serves as a comprehensive playground for AI development using .NET. It provides interactive local AI samples, easy model downloads, and source code export, all built with .NET AI building blocks.

📝—By Luis Quintanilla | Jon Galloway

Going beyond singleton, scoped, and transient lifetimes—tenant, pooled, and drifter

Andrew Lock investigates experimental dependency injection scopes in .NET, such as tenant, pooled, and drifter lifetimes, providing insights into their implementation and use cases.

📝—By Andrew Lock

Keyset (Cursor) Pagination in .NET using EF Core

This article explores implementing keyset (cursor) pagination in ASP.NET Core using EF Core, offering a more efficient alternative to offset-based pagination for large datasets.

📝—By Nikola Tech

💡Null-Conditional Assignment in C# – A Cleaner Way to Handle Nulls in .NET 10

This article introduces the null-conditional assignment operator in C#, offering a cleaner syntax for handling null values and reducing boilerplate code.

📝—By Arunkumar Gudelli

Understanding GraphQL in .NET: When and why to use it

Ali Hamza Ansari discusses the scenarios where GraphQL is beneficial in .NET applications, providing a step-by-step guide to building a GraphQL API using HotChocolate.

📝—By Ali Hamza Ansari

Observability in ASP.NET Core with OpenTelemetry and Azure Monitor

This article demonstrates integrating OpenTelemetry in ASP.NET Core applications and exporting data to Azure Monitor, enabling comprehensive observability through logs, metrics, and traces.

📝—By Anup Hosur

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