Agents can write code all day, but running and iterating on it? Different story🫠

Aspire 13.2 adds structure and a real feedback loop for agents with code, not Markdown.

@maddy.fm is here to share how Aspire gives your agent some bumpers 🎳

🔗 devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/agent...

Using @damienbod.com 's secure ASP.NET Core and Angular BFF template as a starting point, this post shows how to integrate Aspire to improve local development and prepare the application for containerized deployment.

Containerize an ASP.NET Core BFF and Angular frontend using Aspire Using Damien Bowden's secure ASP.NET Core and Angular BFF template as a starting point, this post shows how to integrate Aspire to improve local development and prepare the application for containeriz...

✍️ Blogged: Containerize an ASP.NET Core BFF and Angular frontend using Aspire

#dotNET #Angular #Aspire

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Aspire Conf Keynote starts tomorrow at 9 AM PT

T-minus 24 HOURS 📢 Join us tomorrow on #AspireConf for an action-packed day of live sessions and a keynote welcoming the release of Aspire 13.2! 💫
See you there 👉 aspire.dev/aspireconf/?...

#Python #TypeScript #DotNet #AspireDev

Introducing Angular Testing Library Zoneless To keep up with modern Angular, there's a new zoneless subpackage that helps you write component tests.

✍️ Blogged: Introducing Angular Testing Library Zoneless

To keep up with modern Angular, there's a new zoneless subpackage that helps you write component tests.

timdeschryver.dev/blog/introdu...

#Angular

Copilot and .NET logo. text reads: dotnet/skills Extend your coding agent with more skills

We just shipped .NET Skills for coding agents ⚡
A growing set of reusable skills for .NET that plug into coding agents and work WITH you.
We're starting by sharing the same skills our team built to move faster (and let agents handle the boring parts). 🔗 ift.tt/B6GLaeX
#dotNET

Thanks Logan! ✋

Angular Signal Forms Keeps Improving (v21.2) Taking a quick glance at the new features shipped in Angular Signal Forms. We'll cover provideSignalFormsConfig, focusBoundControl, the Submission API, and the formRoot directive, and why they are use...

✍️ Blogged: Angular Signal Forms Keeps Improving

Taking a quick glance at the new features shipped in Angular Signal Forms.

#Angular

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A minimal way to integrate Aspire into your existing project Did you know that you don't need to rebuild your solution to adopt Aspire? Instead, start small and improve over time. Let's take a look at how to integrate Aspire into your existing project with mini...

✍️ Blogged: A minimal way to integrate Aspire into your existing project

Did you know that you don't need to rebuild your solution to adopt Aspire?

#dotNET #Aspire

timdeschryver.dev/blog/a-minim...

Improve the quality of your Angular component snapshots with Vitest Snapshot testing Angular components in Vitest can be noisy. Learn how to clean up your snapshots with Angular-aware serializers to get reviewable DOM snapshots. This practice can also be applied to pr...

✍️ Blogged: Improve the quality of your Angular component snapshots with Vitest

#Angular #Vitest

timdeschryver.dev/blog/improve...

Using FusionCache's Backplane to synchronize HybridCache instances across multiple instances HybridCache doesn't sync in-memory caches across instances. Discover how FusionCache's backplane solves this with a simple wrapper

✍️ Blogged: Using FusionCache's Backplane to synchronize HybridCache instances across multiple instances

#dotNET

timdeschryver.dev/blog/hybridc...

RFC: Modernize Angular Testing Library with a zoneless subpackage · Issue #562 · testing-library/angular-testing-library First of all, happy new year and my best wishes to you! 🕺💃 TLDR: I want to modernize Angular Testing Library (ATL) History ATL is created to test angular components with the following requisites: f...

It's also a good time to reflect on the current state and start looking into modernizing Angular Testing Library to become zoneless (and to remove -deprecated- functionality).

Your input in this journey is helpful to create a roadmap for this. 👇

github.com/testing-libr...

The new year brings a new version of Angular Testing Library! 🥳

This version (v19) is compatible with Angular v21.

#Angular

github.com/testing-libr...

Bonne année Henri🕺

Top .NET Blog Posts of 2025 - .NET Blog Let's look back at the most-read .NET blog posts published in 2025, from .NET 10 to AI, performance, and developer tooling.

Top .NET Blog Posts of 2025

Announcing NgRx 21: Celebrating a 10 Year Journey with a fresh new look and @ngrx/signals/events Announcing NgRx 21: Celebrating a 10 Year Journey with a fresh new look and @ngrx/signals/events

📢 Announcing NgRx 21: Celebrating a 10 Year Journey with a fresh new look and ngrx/signals/events

🎊 10 Year Anniversary
🎨 New Documentation Website
⚓ Stable Events Plugin

And more!

✍️ by @timdeschryver.dev

dev.to/ngrx/announc...

I'm glad you found the issue, and thanks for the updates!

You can take a look at the beta branch in that case, this one has been migrated to Vitest 😉 Thanks in advance!

Or wait, the sandbox uses effect, but in a child component... so I guess this doesn't count 😅

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GitHub - testing-library/angular-testing-library: 🐙 Simple and complete Angular testing utilities that encourage good testing practices 🐙 Simple and complete Angular testing utilities that encourage good testing practices - testing-library/angular-testing-library

I thought I had one publicly available, but it seems as if that's not the case... Please open an issue on GitHub to discuss it, ideally you could include a simple reproduction (or edit/add a test case).

github.com/testing-libr...

Named global query filters in Entity Framework Core 10 Entity Framework Core 10 enhances the global query filters feature, allowing you to define multiple filters per entity and selectively disable them by name. This powerful enhancement gives you fine-gr...

✍️ Blogged: Named global query filters in Entity Framework Core 10

#dotNET #EntityFramework

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Using cookies for authentication in an Angular application Learn how to simplify authentication in Angular applications by leveraging secure, cookie-based authentication through a Backend for Frontend (BFF) pattern. This approach eliminates the complexity of ...

✍️ Blogged: Using cookies for authentication in an Angular application

#Angular

timdeschryver.dev/blog/using-c...

Browser Mode | Marmicode Cookbook The evolution of Angular browser testing and how to configure Vitest Browser Mode for both partial and full Playwright-powered testing.

Karma is out of the pantry. 👋

Get ready for @vitest.dev & Browser Mode with #Angular 21

✨ New #testing cookbook chapter explaining why we’re back to the browser — and what actually separates:

👾 emulation,
🌓 "partial" browser mode,
🎭 & "full" browser mode.

cookbook.marmicode.io/angular/test...

Null conditional assignments

Field access in auto properties.

Extension Blocks

Example of showing extension block usage

What's new in C# 14!

Dustin holding it down \o/.

Null conditional assignments,
Inferred type in lambda expressions,
Field Access in auto properties!
Extension Blocks 🥹🥹 !

#dotNETConf

Y'all know what today is !

#dotnetconf

Announcing AnalogJS 2.0 ⚡️ We're excited to announce the 2.0 release of AnalogJS! This release includes many features that help...

🚀 Announcing @analogjs.org 2.0!

📜 Content Resources for @angular.dev
📦 Optimized Installs and Bundling
⚡️ @vite.dev ecosystem upgrades

And more!

dev.to/analogjs/ann...

Write strongly typed Web API integration tests using Kiota and OpenAPI Recently, I discovered Kiota, a tool that generates API clients from OpenAPI specifications, and it has significantly simplified my testing process. In this blog post, I'll share how I use Kiota to cr...

✍️ Blogged: Write strongly typed Web API integration tests using Kiota and OpenAPI

#dotNET #Kiota #OpenAPI

timdeschryver.dev/blog/write-s...

That's often the best way of learning something in my case, hence this post 😅
As mentioned in the post, I find the API nice to work with.

Refactoring a form to a Signal Form I jotted down some notes of my experiences and thoughts while refactoring an existing Angular form to use the new Signal Forms (experimental feature).

✍️ Blogged: Refactoring a form to a Signal Form

I jotted down some notes of my experiences and thoughts while refactoring an existing Angular form to use the new Signal Forms (experimental feature).

#Angular

timdeschryver.dev/blog/refacto...

.NET 10 Release Candidate 2 · dotnet core · Discussion #10122 .NET 10 Release Candidate 2 is now available. This is our second and final release candidate which comes with a go-live support license so you can confidently use this release for your production a...

.NET 10 Release Candidate 2 is now available | by Jon Galloway & the .NET team

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#dotnet #dotnet10 #blazor #aspnetcore #dotnetmaui #csharp