It is insane how quickly Text Grab can take a jpeg of a table and get it into Excel. apps.microsoft.com/store/detail... #Productivity #OCR #Data #WinApp #WindowsApps #OpenSource #IndieDev

My new Yatzy - Classic Dice Game is ready for beta testing. Download it, play it and send me feedback or write reviews. Download: apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P1J4... #Yahtzee #XAML #UWP #GameDev

Out now: The Microsoft Fluent UI #Blazor library v5 RC5! This is the last RC before the final ships in September. New AreaChart, master/detail in DataGrid, Overflow overhaul and much more... See v5.fluentui-blazor.net. Packages are on NuGet.

Testing our unit tests with mutation testing ... or, to use the actual lingo: killing the mutants - and letting none survive - safeguards the effectiveness of our test suites with "Stryker" for #dotnet. on: 2026-08-08 at: 16:00 UTC via: www.youtube.com/live/F4nb5RW... #CSharp live coding included!

Let none survive! - How to test our unit tests with mutation testing

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Traydio (previously Trdo) 2.0 is coming along well! I'm adding a new VLC library that can be used along side the native library, changing the UI from a flyout to a window and adding almost all of the open issue requests!

Year 14 as a Microsoft MVP! And this time I get to wear two badges: .NET and Windows Development. Still having fun, still building, still sharing. #MVPBuzz

Building a new game: Yahtzee 🎲 The full logic is mostly working. The UI still needs a ton of love, but wow… this is fun to make. #windows #xaml #uwp #csharp #gamedev #yahtzee

Blogged: Improvements to reading Process outputs - Exploring the .NET 11 preview - Part 5 andrewlock.net/exploring-th... In this post I show some of the improvements to the Process API in .NET 11 for running processes and reading their outputs without risk of deadlock #dotnet

MAUI startup feels slow? Do not optimize from vibes. Add timestamps around: 1. App/process start 2. App constructor 3. first page + viewmodel creation 4. first data call 5. first frame after navigation Then fix the biggest gap, not the loudest guess.

Had a great time on MVP Unplugged talking about how to use the AI features of SQL 2025 to build my Burrito Bot! #sqlserver www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Hg...

Nothing to see here. Just the #WinUI 3 gallery... running in the browser! @platform.uno

I published part 10 of my "Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C#" series: minidump.net/writing-a-ne... This time, I implemented support for finalization, which reveals some intricacies of the .NET runtime.

Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C#  - Part 10: Finalizers

Using NativeAOT to write a .NET GC in C#. In this part, we add support for finalization.

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Let's dig into the new cDAC way to access .NET runtime internals :^) chrisnas.github.io/posts/2026-0... Happy reading!

Reading CLR internals the cDAC way: contracts instead of the DAC

Why .NET is replacing the DAC with the cDAC data contracts, how they work locally / over a process / from a dump, and how to map the GitHub .md contracts to C# - with a from-scratch !eeheap as a worki...

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Object-oriented design rests on four core principles. Understanding them is one thing; applying them correctly is what leads to maintainable software. #csharp #dotnet #softwareengineering

Every developer has a side project. Mine became... writing a book. Just published The Side Project, about a dev whose innocent youth football app gets hijacked by organized crime. Check it out: books2read.com/u/bP2nll

T-SQL Analyzer now supports live analysis in SSMS and Visual Studio 🎉 Catch issues earlier, improve performance, and streamline your database development workflow. Read more 👇 buff.ly/VyYoTsg #SQLServer #TSQL #DevTools #DatabaseDevelopment

Updated: T-SQL Analyzer live analysis now in SSMS and Visual Studio

The T-SQL Analyzer extensions for Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio have been significantly updated. Here's what's new.

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File-based #WinUI apps with Microsoft.UI.Reactor: xaml.dev/post/file-ba...

Playing around with some custom DirectX rendering inside Microsoft.UI.Reactor and ended up with some fun 360° samples. All 100% C# code in #WinUI. No XAML, no C++.

The latest Text Grab release brings Paragraph Detection and new modes: Spreadsheet and Markdown! I've got some great things cooking too... joefinapps.com/2026/06/16/s... #windev #windows #native #winapp #dotnet #indiedev

Blogged: Building your first Microsoft.UI.Reactor App xaml.dev/post/your-fi... #WinUI

C# Inline Arrays aren’t limited to single dimension. Turn them into jagged structures and you get multi‑dimensional layouts with zero heap allocations. My Sudoku board? 81 bytes of pure stack memory. #csharp #dotnet

C# Inline Arrays aren’t limited to single dimension. Turn them into jagged structures and you get multi‑dimensional layouts with zero heap allocations. My Sudoku board? 81 bytes of pure stack memory. #csharp #dotnet

Project templates are now available for Microsoft.UI.Reactor. Run 'dotnet new install Microsoft.UI.Reactor.ProjectTemplates' to install, then 'dotnet new reactorapp' to build your first project. #winui

My #MSBuild thoughts on announcements blog.victoriaholt.co.uk/2026/06/micr... #datagovernance #aigovernance #responsibleai

Microsoft Build 2026: The Moment Governance Became the Bottleneck, Not Innovation

If last year’s narrative was about what AI can do , Microsoft Build 2026 marked a noticeable shift: the conversation has moved firmly to wha...

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Happy to share my latest OSS project: PropertyThrowGenerator 🎉 Add clean, compile‑time validated properties to your C# classes with simple attributes - And it works great with MVVM too. Blog: www.reflectionit.nl/blog/2026/in... #csharp #sourcegenerator #mvvm @dot.net

Happy to share my latest OSS project: PropertyThrowGenerator 🎉 Add clean, compile‑time validated properties to your C# classes with simple attributes - And it works great with MVVM too. Blog: www.reflectionit.nl/blog/2026/in... #csharp #sourcegenerator #mvvm @dot.net

If you're getting started with Microsoft Reactor, there's a full website here with docs: microsoft.github.io/microsoft-ui... #winui

You can now create a WinUI app as a single file-based app!

Breaking news: There's a new way to create #WinUI desktop apps without xaml using declarative, component-based C# framework! Check out the repo: github.com/microsoft/mi...

GitHub - microsoft/microsoft-ui-reactor: Reactor is an experimental set of extensions to WinUI

Reactor is an experimental set of extensions to WinUI - microsoft/microsoft-ui-reactor

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An initial release as been published on GitHub! Draw or click around a similarity map to find the icon you're looking for! github.com/TheJoeFin/Wi... #windev #windows #native #winapp #dotnet #indiedev

GitHub - TheJoeFin/Win-Icon-Finder

Contribute to TheJoeFin/Win-Icon-Finder development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Joe Finney@thejoefin.com · 3mo ago

New app for finding Fluent Icons by drawing! Blog post on how I built this with the WinApp Skill coming soon! #WinDev #Windows #IndieDev #WinUI