dotInsights | June 2025

Rachel Appel

Did you know? The Original Name of .NET Was “Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS)“. Before Microsoft officially named it “.NET,” the platform was internally referred to as NGWS: Next Generation Windows Services. The name “.NET” was adopted in the late 1990s to emphasize the platform’s focus on web-based development and interoperability, as opposed to being tightly coupled to Windows-specific services.

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Here’s the latest from the developer community.

• Double Dispatch in DDD: When Injecting Dependencies Makes Sense – Derek Comartin
• How to Become a Technical Coach And Carry On Coding in your Developer Career – Emily Bache
• Check Out the DrawingView in .NET MAUI – Leomaris Reyes
• Avoiding reflection in C# in way unsafer ways! – Steven Giesel
• 4 Ways to Culture-Proof Your C# xUnit Tests | Never Break Your Pipeline Again! – Gui Ferreira
• Duende IdentityServer and OTel Metrics, Traces, and Logs in the .NET Aspire Dashboard – Khalid Abuhakmeh
• Using the new AI template to create a chatbot about a website – Andrew Lock
• Evolve your C# Code with AI: A 5 Week Genetic Algorithms Bootcamp for Developers – Chris Woodruff
• Master NoSQL: Scalable Databases for Modern Applications – Frank LaVigne
• Use C# 14 extensions to simplify enum Parsing – Gérald Barré
• Create a Beautiful Photo Gallery Using .NET MAUI Tab View and ListView – Naveenkumar Sanjeevirayan
• The Model Context Protocol: Getting beneath the hype – Karrtik Iyer
• Adding a Blazor Pager to Your Data Display – Héctor Pérez
• ASP.NET Core Pitfalls – Action Constraint Order – Ricardo Peres
• Asynchronous and Parallel Programming in C# – David Ramel
• “ZLinq”, a Zero-Allocation LINQ Library for .NET – Yoshifumi Kawai
• How to Import and Read Form Fields from DOCX Documents in .NET on Linux – Bjoern Meyer
• How to Migrate Users to Auth0: A Technical Guide – David Bolton
• Taming Manifest Sprawl with Aspire – David Fowler
• Song recommendations as an F# Impureim Sandwich – Mark Seemann
• Nullable bool and if statement – Jiří Činčura
• Vibe coding: Your roadmap to becoming an AI developer – Gwen Davis

🔦 From our .NET Guide

Each month we feature tutorials or tips from our .NET Guide.

Refactor expressions to use pattern matching

Use pattern matching on properties in Boolean logic for more readable and efficient code.

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C# Experimental Attribute

Mark a block of code as experimental so other developers are aware of its status.

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🗞️ JetBrains News

What’s going on at JetBrains? Check it out here:

• ReSharper Comes to Microsoft Visual Studio Code: Public Preview Now Open
• JetBrains AI Assistant – Now in Visual Studio Code
• ReSharper 2025.2 EAP 2: First Public Build with Out-of-Process Mode Support
• Rider 2025.2 Early Access Program Is Live!
• ReSharper and Rider 2025.1.2 – Bug Fixes Have Landed!

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