Ginny Caughey
@gcaughey.bsky.social
Experienced entrepreneur and Windows Development MVP: enterprise software by day, consumer software by night. Also @gcaughey on Twitter.
Remove Is Not Uninstall | by Howard Kapustein devblogs.microsoft.com/insidemsix/r... #windowsdev #msix #packaging #softwaredev #architecture
Remove Is Not Uninstall - Inside MSIX
Removing an MSIX package isn't the same as uninstalling it. Learn how deregistration and destaging really work.
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It's always a great feeling to be recognized for your efforts. Thanks to everyone who vouched for me again this year! 💗
File-based WinUI apps with Microsoft.UI.Reactor | by Morten Nielsen buff.ly/P3MG3SE #windowsdev #csharp #winui #windowsappsdk #dotnet
dotMorten | File-based WinUI apps with Microsoft.UI.Reactor
dotMorten - .NET Ramblings, XAML hacking and some GIS endeavors - One of the things I've been wanting to try for a while was whether Reactor could work nicely with .N
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Congrats @unixterminal! You'll represent us well as a .NET Foundation Board of Directors member. opavote.com/results/5109...
2026 .NET Foundation Board of Directors | OpaVote
See election results for 2026 .NET Foundation Board of Directors.
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The SqlClient roadmap is out 👇 buff.ly/PMrnu3E Worth checking if you care about: - connection pooling behavior - auth flows (Entra ID, MSI, etc.) - perf + reliability at scale Early feedback here can actually influence design decisions. #dotnet #sqlserver
SqlClient/roadmap.md at main · dotnet/SqlClient
Microsoft.Data.SqlClient provides database connectivity to SQL Server for .NET applications. - dotnet/SqlClient
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May the 4th be with you! But today is also Melanoma Monday so check those spots!
Real-world, anyone? It's great to see this type of session at MS Build this year: build.microsoft.com Beyond REST: .NET Apps That Talk to Hardware Most app demos stop at REST APIs. This live demo talks to real hardware.
Microsoft Build, June 2-3, 2026 / San Francisco and online
Go deep on real code and real systems with the teams building and scaling AI at Microsoft Build, June 2–3, 2026, in San Francisco and online.
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How long was TSA line at ATL this morning with Precheck and Sky Priority? About 2 hours or 4000 steps for a positive slant.
I'll be back in person at Microsoft Build again this year. I hope to see some of my old friends again even though this year's conference is more "intimate" and only 2 days long.
his morning I can only read new O365 mail from my work account on my iPhone and not on my Windows PC. Mail worked great. Outlook (new) and Outlook (pwa) not so much. Why, Microsoft, why?
Conversion of big solution's data access to Dapper done except for final testing. Thanks, Gemini, for the help!
Visual Studio's Copilot auto-completion is more accurate today. Does that mean I'm writing more boring code that usual?
I built a web app with the GitHub Copilot SDK to make analyzing log files easier. It'll summarize them, provide a root cause analysis, and also link any GitHub issues they could be related to ✨ Check out the GitHub Copilot SDK here: github.com/github/copil...
@larsklint ‘s farm in country Victoria was hit by the recent bushfires. There’s a Gofundme to help him and the family get back on their feet: https://gofund.me/e40fc8d09
As a very long-time techie myself, I'm really enjoying @karaswisher.bsky.social's "tech love story" Burn Book. It's on Amazon here: www.amazon.com/s?k=kara+swi...
Amazon.com : kara swisher burn book
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Either I got dumber over the holidays, or Visual Studio Copilot got smarter while I was away.
Re-upping one of my favorite product design resolutions this year: Don't add features nobody asked for as default behavior or as hard to disable no matter how hard marketing tries to bully me about this.
On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me 🦙🍐🎄 A Llama in a #FluentUI #XAML Tree… 🦙🍐🎄 Happy Holidays! We're back for a classic twist to preview the upcoming 2026 #XAMLStudio v2 w/ #12DaysOfXAML! Now with a new Fluent coat 🧥! #WindowsDev 🦙🍐🎄
At the Microsoft MVP summit, @kclemson.bsky.social, Raymond Chen and I did a talk consisting of stories from the past 40 or so years of Microsoft history. Unfortunately ir wasn't recorded. This fall, we recreated it on video to be shared, and I'm so happy we did.
100 Years of Microsoft Stories
YouTube video by Microsoft Developer
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Interested in working in .NET Tooling? My team is hiring for a few roles. This is a great to impact the .NET ecosystem, work with devs all across Microsoft and help drive the .NET platform forward. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
6 million patient interaction summaries were generated by AI by Epic medical software last year. In the demo simulation, a mobile device (phone?) recorded the patient conversation and transmitted it to the Epic app for summarization and suggested tasks.
