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Agent Skills in .NET: Three Ways to Author, One Provider to Run Them | Microsoft Agent Framework Your agents can now draw on skills authored in three different ways – as files on disk, as inline C# code, or as encapsulated classes – and combine them https://hubs.li/Q04nxV-50

Build durable, long-running workflows in .NET with Dapr Workflows and the ABP Framework. This hands-on guide covers orchestrations, activities, timers, retries, external events, and how ABP integrates with Dapr to simplify building resilient distributed applications. #dotnet #dapr #abpframework #opensource https://hubs.li/Q04npGK10

Announcing the first stable release of SkiaSharp v4! A better engine, new capabilities, clean API, modernized and now co-maintained with Uno Platform. Platform Announcement blog: https://hubs.li/Q04n95w30 Stream the event: https://hubs.li/Q04nb5250

Still creating and disposing HttpClient on every request? That “clean” code can quietly destroy performance. Benchmarks reveal that reusing a shared HttpClient is 12,109× faster and reduces allocations by 10×. https://hubs.li/Q04n00Tx0 via David McCarter

SkiaSharp 4 work is almost complete!! Make sure you don't miss the launch day. Save a seat at https://lnkd.in/gqzStU54 Presented to you by Microsoft and Uno Platform teams!

AI coding agents often misuse the libraries you install. They fall back to outdated patterns, ignore newer APIs, or generate code that doesn't fit the intended usage of a package. This post by Sander ten Brinke shows a practical .NET approach to fixing that: ship an Agent Skill inside your NuGet package, and install it automatically into the consumer's repository with buildTransitive. It covers why this matters, alternative approaches, and a concrete implementation you can copy for your own libraries. If you build .NET libraries, this is a great way to make them work better with AI tools! https://hubs.li/Q04mVf8C0 https://hubs.li/Q04mV5nz0

ICYMI - .NET 11 Preview 5 is now available! - .NET Blog Find out about the new features in .NET 11 Preview 5 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, #ASPNETCore, .NET MAUI, C#, Entity Framework Core, and more! https://hubs.li/Q04l-Xb10 #dotnet

Need TikTok metadata in .NET? TiktokExplode v1.2.0 is a .NET library for retrieving TikTok metadata and downloading content through a simple, reliable API. Supports videos, carousels, search, cover images. Now with built-in Dependency Injection support. https://hubs.ly/Q04lFPbf0 #dotnet #csharp #opensource

The virtual TrailBlazor Conference is on June 17th and features an exciting lineup of speakers from Microsoft and the .NET Community! The theme for this year's event is "innovation and creativity in the .NET ecosystem"... so expect to be blown away with insightful talks on Blazor, .NET MAUI, Aspire, Squad, .NET AI Essentials (MEAI, etc...), AI Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), autonomous AI agents for .NET (Rockbot), open‑source self‑hosted bot detection (Stylobot), and building AI-driven applications with Design Systems and Agent Skills. Registration is available at https://hubs.li/Q04lymH60.

Model Context Protocol (MCP): Building and Debugging Your First MCP Server in .NET – Jamie Maguire https://hubs.li/Q04lmz7s0 via @jamie_maguire1 #dotnet