Remember when developers would argue passionately about whether Visual Studio, VS Code, JetBrains, or Vim was the “right” choice? Those debates feel almost quaint now. After two decades of watching IDE evolution—from the heavyweight Visual Studio 2003 that could barely run on 512MB of RAM to today’s AI-powered development environments—I can confidently say we’ve entered… Continue reading
Tag: .NET
The Evolution of .NET: Why Modern C# Development Feels Like a Different Language
If you’ve been writing C# for more than a decade, you’ve witnessed something remarkable: the language you learned in the early 2000s bears only a superficial resemblance to what we write today. This isn’t just about new syntax sugar or additional libraries—it’s a fundamental shift in how we think about building applications. After twenty years… Continue reading
The .NET Renaissance: How C# 13 and .NET 9 Are Redefining What Modern Development Looks Like
After two decades of building enterprise applications on the Microsoft stack, I’ve witnessed every major evolution of .NET—from the original Framework through the tumultuous transition to Core, and now to the unified platform that .NET 9 represents. What strikes me most about this release isn’t any single feature, but rather how it crystallizes Microsoft’s vision… Continue reading
Building Production AI Applications with .NET 8 and C# 12
When .NET 8 and C# 12 were released, I was skeptical. After 15 years building enterprise applications, I’d seen framework updates come and go. But this release changed everything for AI development. Let me show you how to build production AI applications with .NET 8 and C# 12—using actual C# code, not Python wrappers. Figure… Continue reading
Introducing Monocross – A cross-platform MVC pattern for mobile development in .NET/C# and Mono
I am evaluating different cross platform mobile development solutions. This is just a quick introduction to a framework I came across. What is cross platform mobile applications? A mobile application developed in such a way that it will work or run on most of the mobile platforms such as Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Blackberry etc.… Continue reading