After years of working with C# in enterprise environments, I’ve seen developers struggle with the same question: when should I use a record instead of a class? The answer isn’t as straightforward as the documentation suggests. In this article, I’ll share my perspective on records—battle-tested patterns, surprising gotchas, and the decision framework I use in […]
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Case Study: Enterprise Healthcare Integration – Building a HIPAA-Compliant Patient-Provider Platform
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Learn about Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF), the unified open-source SDK for building production-ready AI agents. This comprehensive guide covers the architecture, key features, and how MAF combines the best of Semantic Kernel and AutoGen for enterprise agentic AI development.
Read more →The IDE Wars Are Over: How Visual Studio 2025 and Modern Developer Tools Changed Everything
🎓 AUTHORITY NOTE Based on 20+ years using every major IDE from Visual Studio .NET 2003 to today’s AI-powered tools. This represents hands-on experience leading teams through multiple IDE migrations and tool standardizations. Executive Summary Remember when developers would argue passionately about whether Visual Studio, VS Code, JetBrains, or Vim was the “right” choice? Those […]
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