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Did you know? C# allows you to define custom operators for your own types by overloading built-in operators (like +, -, ==, etc.). This is not something most developers use often, and it can make your code behave like native types, which is a powerful but underutilized feature. Welcome to dotInsights by JetBrains! This newsletter is the home for recent .NET and software development related information. 🔗 Links Here’s the latest from the developer community. ...

In this post I explore the new .NET AI Chat Web App template (currently in preview) to create a chat application and take a brief look at everything it provides. In the next post I then customize the app so that instead of ingesting PDFs, it ingests the contents of a website and uses that data to answer questions in the chat. Getting started with the new .NET AI Chat Web App template The .NET AI Chat Web App is a new template that shows how to get started building a chat style application backed by a large language model (LLM). Chat apps are one of the most prolific use cases for AI (obviously heavily popularised by ChatGPT), and while they’re not always the best way to “add AI” to your app, they can have their uses. ...

A rainy weekend, but good one nonetheless. I’m back up to Sunnyvale this week for a handful of customer meetings. [blog] Survey Says: Tech Spending Slows Slightly, AI Tops CXO Priority List. I always read these Battery Ventures reports on enterprise tech spending. There’s good stuff in here. [blog] Zero to One: Learning Agentic Patterns. So good. Philipp explores seven AI agent patterns and provides digestible code examples for each. ...

Top Links AI Repo of the Week: GitHub Copilot Adventures (Dan Wahlin) INotifyPodcastChanged Episode #3 – Getting started in WinDev with Jeremy Sinclair (Joseph Finney & Tamás Deme) The AI Travel Agents – A robust enterprise application (hosted on ACA) that leverages MCP and multiple LamaIndex AI agents to enhance travel agency operations (Azure Samples) Copilot ask, edit, and agent modes: What they do and when to use them (Ashley Willis) Use Windows AI in Your WPF Application (Thomas Claudius Huber) Does .NET Documentation get ads? Aka: Is Copilot in the docs something useful? (Steven Giesel) – As someone on the inside, I can tell you that we don’t intend Copilot tips to be ads… just like we don’t intend docs that explain how to build a .NET app with Visual Studio as an ad for VS, when you could be doing the same thing with another tool like Rider. If you think any of the tips or instructions in the docs are distracting or not useful, please submit an issue using the feedback tools on each page. ...

Did you have a busy week? Most of us have a lot going on. Take a breather this weekend and make sure you do whatever recharges you! [blog] Fine-tune an LLM: Why, when, and how. This can feel like an intimidating topic, but these folks have made a very readable guide to some key ideas. [article] Mark Zuckerberg ‘predicts’ AI will write most of Meta’s code within 12 to 18 months. I dunno. A weird message for your engineers to hear! ...

Top Links Packaging and Publishing a .NET MAUI Library with GitHub Actions (Sweeky Satpathy & David Ortinau) Azure AI Foundry: Your GPS for the changing AI landscape (Jessica Hawk) There’s a Linux File Explorer built into Visual Studio!?! (Sinem Akinci) Announcing PostSharp 2025.1 and Announcing Metalama 2025.1: Going Open Source! (Gael Fraiteur) Modernizing Project Files with AI: A Success Story from the .NET Team (Cathy Sullivan, Mukund Raghav Sharma & Jackson Schuster) The Hanselminutes Podcast – Making SNES ROMS with C# and Matthew Shapiro’s DotnetSnes (Scott Hanselman) One year of Phi: Small language models making big leaps in AI (Weizhu Chen & Ece Kamar) ...

It’s gonna be May. A third of the year is over. How are you feeling about your goals for the year? On track? Way behind? Needing a reset? It’s always a good time to reassess and start doing what matters most. [blog] How to Build an MCP Server in 5 Lines of Python. We’ve barely had a chance to do “MCP Servers the hard way” before these simple options popped up. Gradio, FTW. ...