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Copilot Studio gets faster with .NET 10 on WebAssembly
Microsoft Copilot Studio recently upgraded its .NET WebAssembly engine to .NET 10. The migration was straightforward, simplified deployment, and delivered another round of meaningful performance gains for end users. The post Copilot Studio gets faster with .NET 10 on WebAssembly appeared first on .NET Blog.
The "Double-Booking" Nightmare: Building a Rule-Driven Hostel Allocator with MongoDB Transactions
How I built a transactional hostel allocation engine that eliminates race conditions and double-bookings using MongoDB sessions. Handling logistics for a 500+ person event—like a major hackathon or campus festival—is easy on paper. It becomes significantly harder at 2:00 AM when multiple exhausted teams arrive at the registration desk simultaneously while operators manually juggle room assignments. In this article, I’m pulling back the curtain on the "brain" of Project Morpheus: a transactional
I built a Chrome extension that downloads every image on a page — here's what I learned about Shadow DOM, CSS backgrounds, and Manifest V3
For three years I've kept a folder called _inspiration on my desktop, full of images I "saved as" while researching designs, products, or just browsing. About 60% of the time, "save image as" failed silently — the file would be a 1×1 transparent placeholder, or a low-res thumbnail, or just nothing because the image was a CSS background. I tried the popular image downloader extensions. They missed about half of what I wanted to save. They also bundled analytics. So I built my own, called Image Ha
Top 7 Angular Gantt Chart Libraries in 2026
If you're building an Angular app that needs a serious Gantt chart — for project management, resource scheduling, manufacturing planning, or anything timeline-heavy — you've probably realized that picking the right library is harder than it should be. Most "top 10" articles you'll find online are either thinly disguised marketing for a single product, or so superficial they don't help you decide anything. So I sat down and did the comparison I wish I had found when I started. This post evaluates
Durable Workflows in the Microsoft Agent Framework
Build durable AI agent workflows with the Microsoft Agent Framework. Start with in-process console apps, add durability with the Durable Task runtime, scale with parallel AI agents, and host on Azure Functions for serverless execution. The post Durable Workflows in the Microsoft Agent Framework appeared first on .NET Blog.
Microsoft Agent Framework – Building Blocks for AI Part 3
Build intelligent AI agents in .NET with the Microsoft Agent Framework. Learn how to create agents with tools, multi-turn conversations, memory, and graph-based workflows that bring together the building blocks from Parts 1 and 2. The post Microsoft Agent Framework – Building Blocks for AI Part 3 appeared first on .NET Blog.