- 6/20/2026
- 14 minute read
Signals in Blazor
Signals - more often used in Angular - are a nice way to tell the UI that something has changed. Blazor doesn't have that natively, but how would it look, if it did?
Hey, I'm Steven a .NET Developer in Switzerland. I am a Microsoft MVP. Also, this blog is open source on GitHub.
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- 6/8/2026
- 4 minute read
EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster
If you use AsSplitQuery anywhere in your codebase, EF Core 11 has a present for you: your queries get faster.
- 5/18/2026
- 2 minute read
Zstandard compression in .NET 11
.NET has had DeflateStream, GZipStream, ZLibStream, and BrotliStream for a while now. In .NET 11, a new one joins the party: ZstandardStream. And now we get to say "Zstd" in .NET.
- 5/10/2026
- 3 minute read
BackgroundService exceptions now propagate in .NET 11
Here's a bug that lived in .NET for over four years As in: Reported over 4 years ago. If your BackgroundService threw an exception after its first await, your host would catch it, log a critical message, and then exit cleanly with exit code 0.
So everyone would think it terminated successfully. That got fixed!
- 4/26/2026
- 2 minute read
ConfigurationIgnoreAttribute in .NET 11
Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration has had ConfigurationKeyNameAttribute since .NET 6 which it lets you rename the key a property maps to. But there was never an official way to say "don't bind this property at all." That gap is finally closed in .NET 11 with ConfigurationIgnoreAttribute.
- 4/6/2026
- 12 minute read
Source code generated string enums with exhaustion support
Some time ago (over 4.5 years ago!) I wrote a blog post titled: "A better enumeration - Type safe from start to end". While cool and so - it had some issues. Let's tackle them!
- 3/16/2026
- 3 minute read
records ToString and inheritence
What is the output of that code snippet?
Console.Write(new Derived("Test"));
public abstract record Base(string Key)
{
public override string ToString() => Key;
}
public sealed record DerivedRecord(string Key) : Base(Key);
Probably "Test"?
- 3/6/2026
- 2 minute read
FullJoin in .NET 11 - potentially
We have Join. We have LeftJoin. We have RightJoin. But somehow we still don't have a proper full outer join in LINQ. That might come soon!
- 3/2/2026
- 1 minute read
Tool-Highlight: Handy
I am using a tool called Handy, which is basically nothing else than speech to text. But it does it so well that I thought, okay, let's give it some broader audience.
- 2/23/2026
- 4 minute read
Being stupid is fun: Let's create long exception messages!
Sometimes doing arbitrary stuff feels just good! So let's do that!