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dotInsights | April 2026
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Welcome to dotInsights by JetBrains! This newsletter is the home for recent .NET and software development related information.
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Here’s the latest from the developer community.
- 7 Testing Myths Every Software Developer Should STOP Believing 🎥 – Emily Bache
- From 3 Worktrees to N: How AI Agents Changed My Parallel Development Workflow on Windows – Laurent Kempé
- records ToString and inheritence – Steven Giesel
- Coding isn’t the hard part… 🎥 – CodeOpinion by Derek Comartin
- 5 UX Tips for .NET MAUI Developers – Leomaris Reyes
- I Don’t Know If I’d Recommend Software Development Anymore 🎥 – Gui Ferreira
- Splitting the NetEscapades.EnumGenerators packages: the road to a stable release – Andrew Lock
- Daniel Ward: AI Agents – Episode 393 – Jeffrey Palermo hosts Daniel Ward
- Behavioural Inference: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Probabilistic Systems – Scott Galloway
- Creating case-sensitive folders on Windows using C# – Gérald Barré
- AI Benefits – But at What Cost? – Steve Smith
- A Primer on Using Agent Skills 🎥 – The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News
- How C# Strings Silently Kill Your SQL Server Indexes in Dapper – Kevin Griffin
- How to Implement Prototype Pattern in C#: Step-by-Step Guide – Nick Constantino
- Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 8: Interior pointers and Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 9: Frozen segments and new allocation strategy – Kevin Gosse
- How To Containerize A Twilio App With Docker – Dylan Frankcom
- Building a Real-time Audio Processing App with SKSL Shaders in .NET MAUI – Nick Kovalsky
- How to Create Fillable PDF Forms in C# for Server-Side .NET Apps – Arun Kumar Chandrakesan
- C# class types explained with examples – David Grace
- Regular Expression Performance: Supercharge Your Match Counting – David McCarter
- CoreSync – A .NET library that provides data synchronization between databases – Adolfo Marinucci
- Software Craftsmanship in the Age of AI – Tim O’Reilly
- Validation Options in Wolverine – Jeremy D. Miller
- How to Organize Minimal APIs – Assis Zang
- When NOT to use the repository pattern in EF Core – Ali Hamza Ansari
- # 14 New Features: A Developer Guide for .NET 10 – Dirk Strauss
- What’s the EXACT Technical Gap That Separates AI SUCCESS From AI FAILURE? – Dave Farley and Steve Smith at Modern Software Engineering
- What 81,000 people want from AI – Anthropic
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🗞️ JetBrains News
What’s going on at JetBrains? Check it out here:
🎉 dotUltimate 2026.1 Release Party 🎉
🎉 ReSharper for Visual Studio Code, Cursor, and Compatible Editors Is Out 🎉
More JetBrains news…
- ReSharper 2026.1 Release Candidate Released!
- Rider 2026.1 Release Candidate Is Out!
- Rider 2026.1: More AI Choice, Stronger .NET Tooling, and Expanded Game Dev Support
- ReSharper 2026.1: Built-in Performance Monitoring, Expansion to VS Code, and Faster Everyday Workflows
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