dotInsights | November 2025

Rachel Appel

Did you know? C# includes a feature called “expression-bodied members“, which allows you to define one-line methods, properties, constructors, and destructors in a very concise way.

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Here’s the latest from the developer community.

• Building the Coolest Console Apps in .NET 🎥 – Nick Chapsas
• POSITIVE ACTIONS Technical Leaders can take to address bad code 🎥 – Emily Bache
• Still Writing Using Statements in Every File? Why?🎥 – Gui Ferreira
• The Real Truth About Event-Driven Architecture 🎥 – CodeOpinion by Derek Comartin
• Using profiler function hooks in .NET with Silhouette – Kevin Gosse
• Say Goodbye to the FontImageExtension in .NET MAU – Leomaris Reyes
• Passkeys in .NET 10 Blazor Apps with ASP.NET Identity – Maarten Balliauw
•  Create Stunning Nutrition Dashboards in WPF with Multi-Layer Pie Chart – Priyadharshini Periyasamy
• Cleaning Up .NET on Your Desktop: From Command Line to Visuals – Lex Li
• Preparing for the .NET 10 GC (DATAS) – Maoni Stephens
• Mastering the C# Dispose Pattern – Ivan Kahl
• How .NET Garbage Collector works (and when you should care) – Ali Hamza Ansari
• Restricting Access to an Action Method in ASP.NET Core MVC – Ricardo Peres
• The Ultimate All-in-One Document Viewer Plugin for JetBrains IDE – Suvetha Venkatesan
• Intentionally Human: Product Managers in the AI Era – Jeremy Daly
• Postgres as a Distributed Cache Unlocks Speed and Simplicity for Modern .NET Workloads – Jared Meade
• Using SignalR with Wolverine 5.0 – Jeremy D. Miller
• Add request logging to a database in an ASP.NET Core Web API – David Grace

🔦 From our .NET Guide

Each month we feature tutorials or tips from our .NET Guide.

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☕ Coffee Break

Take a break to catch some fun social posts.

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🗞️ JetBrains News

What’s going on at JetBrains? Check it out here:

• How BoldSign Modernized Development at Scale With JetBrains dotUltimate
• Taming the Billion Dollar Mistake: Maarten Balliauw’s Guide to C# Nullable Reference Types
• Simplifying Distributed Systems: Jason Taylor Shows How .NET Aspire Makes the Complex Feel Effortless
• ReSharper and Rider 2025.2.4: Another Set of Updates Released
• Coming to Rider 2025.3: ASP.NET and Database Issue Detection In The Monitoring Tool Window
• ReSharper Is Now on the Open VSX Registry
• Calling All Non-Commercial JetBrains Rider Users: Tell Us Your Stories!
• 9 ReSharper Features Every .NET Developer Should Know

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