The Modern .NET Show

Strategic Technology Consultation Services
This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Strategic Technology Consultation Services. If you're an SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) leader wondering why your technology investments aren't delivering, or you're facing critical decisions about AI, modernization, or team productivity, let's talk.
Show Notes
"."— Codrina Merigo
Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem.
Today, we are joined by Codina Merigo to talk about the cross section of .NET MAUI and AI, her new book "AI-Enabled Apps with .NET MAUI", and some of the scenarios where you might want to include AI in your applications.
"To get privacy by design nowadays is really impossible. So if you need to really have something disconnected from the internet maybe you'll need a tiny offline model that just, I don't know, does speech-to-text."— Codrina Merigo
Along the way, we discuss the differences between local (on device) AI models and the frontier (online) models, we talk about where models really help with the accessibility of your applications, and we talk about where you can go to get started learning about this new world..
Before we jump in, a quick reminder: if The Modern .NET Show has become part of your learning journey, please consider supporting us through Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee. Every contribution helps us continue bringing you these in-depth conversations with industry experts. You'll find all the links in the show notes.
So let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET.
Full Show Notes
The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/beyond-the-chatbot-ai-enabled-net-maui-apps-with-codrina-merigo/
Useful Links:
Codrina Merigo on: LinkedIn
Bluesky
X (formerly Twitter)
GitHub

AI-Enabled Apps with .NET MAUI
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Music created by Mono Memory Music, licensed to RJJ Software for use in The Modern .NET Show.
Editing and post-production services for this episode were provided by MB Podcast Services.

Strategic Technology Consultation Services
This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Strategic Technology Consultation Services. If you're an SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) leader wondering why your technology investments aren't delivering, or you're facing critical decisions about AI, modernization, or team productivity, let's talk.
Show Notes
"It is providing you a… unified stack, a cloud ready stack for building distributed applications where the configuration… you can say the configuration files that we usually maintain, like YAML files, XML files, json files. So it is generally taken care of those nitty gritties."— Joydip Kanjilal
Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem.
Today, Joydip Kanjilal returned to the show to talk about Aspire and where it fits in the modern enterprise application stack. We also talk about how Aspire isn't just for microservices or nanoservices, it will work quite well with modular monoliths, too. As long as your application code isn't highly coupled.
"Maintaining large scale distributed systems requires deep visibility into… how the services are interacting, how the services are behaving over a period of time. So that helps enterprises to understand how the applications are behaving. If something goes wrong, what went wrong? Why is it that the application is not being able to scale? why is it not… able to handle, more you know, requests in a specific period? What are the security loopholes and everything?"— Joydip Kanjilal
One side note: we recorded this episode shortly before Aspire was rebranded from ".NET Aspire". So if you're listening in wondering, "wait. That's not what it's called," please bear with us because we both used the old branding for half of the episode. Let's hope that the PM for Aspire, Maddy Montaquila, doesn't notice. Sorry Maddy.
Before we jump in, a quick reminder: if The Modern .NET Show has become part of your learning journey, please consider supporting us through Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee. Every contribution helps us continue bringing you these in-depth conversations with industry experts. You'll find all the links in the show notes.
Anyway, without further ado, let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET.
Full Show Notes
The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/aspirifying-the-enterprise-building-modern-apps-with-aspire-with-joydip-kanjilal/
Useful Links:
Joydip's website
Joydip's blog
Joydip's GitHub
Joydip's newsletter
Supporting the show:
Leave a rating or review
Buy the show a coffee
Become a patron
Getting in Touch:
Via the contact page
Joining the Discord
Remember to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or wherever you find your podcasts, this will help the show's audience grow. Or you can just share the show with a friend.
And don't forget to reach out via our Contact page. We're very interested in your opinion of the show, so please get in touch.
You can support the show by making a monthly donation on the show's Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/TheDotNetCorePodcast.
Music created by Mono Memory Music, licensed to RJJ Software for use in The Modern .NET Show.
Editing and post-production services for this episode were provided by MB Podcast Services.

Strategic Technology Consultation Services
This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Strategic Technology Consultation Services. If you're an SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) leader wondering why your technology investments aren't delivering, or you're facing critical decisions about AI, modernization, or team productivity, let's talk.
Show Notes
"A lot of people go to conferences and they do conference-driven development. They come back with all these great ideas. And you know what? I'm guilty. I speak at conferences and I give lots of ideas. But they're ideas and you don't have to take every idea and apply it when you get back to the office."— Chris Woodruff
Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem.
Today, we're joined by Chris Woodruff to talk simplicity, which is his overarching philosophy when it comes to working with code; whether that's developing, architecting, or interacting with decision makers: simplicity matters.
"Simplicity also reflects in cost. Because I've found all these studies that say that most companies that start putting solutions out on the cloud pay a lot more than they should."— Chris Woodruff
Along the way, we talked about how simplicity goes further than the code we write and into how we choose to host our applications, either in the cloud or on prem. Arguably, most of the time, an application which has a simpler architecture will be cheaper to host.
Before we jump in, a quick reminder: if The Modern .NET Show has become part of your learning journey, please consider supporting us through Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee. Every contribution helps us continue bringing you these in-depth conversations with industry experts. You'll find all the links in the show notes.
Anyway, without further ado, let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET.
Full Show Notes
The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/simplicity-first-why-complexity-is-not-sophistication-with-chris-woodruff/
Useful Links:
Chris' blog
Chris on Bluesky
Chris on LinkedIn
Simplicity First
Supporting the show:
Leave a rating or review
Buy the show a coffee
Become a patron
Getting in Touch:
Via the contact page
Joining the Discord
Remember to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or wherever you find your podcasts, this will help the show's audience grow. Or you can just share the show with a friend.
And don't forget to reach out via our Contact page. We're very interested in your opinion of the show, so please get in touch.
You can support the show by making a monthly donation on the show's Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/TheDotNetCorePodcast.
Music created by Mono Memory Music, licensed to RJJ Software for use in The Modern .NET Show.
Editing and post-production services for this episode were provided by MB Podcast Services.

Strategic Technology Consultation Services
This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Strategic Technology Consultation Services. If you're an SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) leader wondering why your technology investments aren't delivering, or you're facing critical decisions about AI, modernization, or team productivity, let's talk.
Show Notes
"The first measurement could be actually someone from the, so-called business, stating that, "oh gosh, this is so slow." That would be like the coarse grained measurement that you can sometimes receive for free"— Szymon Kulec
Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem.
Today, we're joined by Szymon Kulec to talk about systems programming in .NET. But that's just the surface level detail of what we talk about. We do a deep-dive into some of the corners of .NET and C# that a lot of engineers hardly ever get the chance to cover. This is more than your standard, surface level conversation about C# and .NET.
"Maybe sometimes you will actually create a thread. Something that you don't do nowadays in .NET, because you know what you are doing and you want to own the specific thread for or your own specific purpose."— Szymon Kulec
Along the way, we talked about how developers who are using C# and .NET should think about learning the deeper levels of the language and how things work under the covers. Knowing how the JIT works with your code will help you to write more performant code, for sure.
Before we jump in, a quick reminder: if The Modern .NET Show has become part of your learning journey, please consider supporting us through Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee. Every contribution helps us continue bringing you these in-depth conversations with industry experts. You'll find all the links in the show notes.
Anyway, without further ado, let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET.
Full Show Notes
The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/measure-twice-cut-once-benchmarking-hot-paths-and-the-chainsaw-of-unsafe-code-with-szymon-kulec/
Useful Links:
Szymon on LinkedIn
Szymon's blog
Supporting the show:
Leave a rating or review
Buy the show a coffee
Become a patron
Getting in Touch:
Via the contact page
Joining the Discord
Remember to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or wherever you find your podcasts, this will help the show's audience grow. Or you can just share the show with a friend.
And don't forget to reach out via our Contact page. We're very interested in your opinion of the show, so please get in touch.
You can support the show by making a monthly donation on the show's Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/TheDotNetCorePodcast.
Music created by Mono Memory Music, licensed to RJJ Software for use in The Modern .NET Show.
Editing and post-production services for this episode were provided by MB Podcast Services.

Strategic Technology Consultation Services
This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Strategic Technology Consultation Services. If you're an SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) leader wondering why your technology investments aren't delivering, or you're facing critical decisions about AI, modernization, or team productivity, let's talk.
Show Notes
"Artificial intelligence is nothing new. It enables machines to simulate human cognitive functions such as reasoning, learning, problem solving and all using algorithms and vast data data sets to recognise patterns. And then it makes predictions and performs, you know, language processing, image recognition, and all those stuff."— Joydip Kanjilal
Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem.
Today, we're joined by Joydip Kanjilal to talk about GitHub Copilot, agentic workflows for developers, and the benefits (and drawbacks) of having an AI agent help you write code.
Note that I didn't say, "write all the code for you," because an AI agent is simply helping you to be more productive.
"You want to you know, convert, I mean uh migrate a legacy application to a modern-day enterprise application, there will be a lot of redundant code that you will otherwise have to write. So that all that code can be automatically generated by Copilot, provided you have provided the right context."— Joydip Kanjilal
Along the way, we talked about the importance of the context that you give to an AI agent, security best practises (spoiler: you wouldn't give a new junior the keys to teh castle on day one, do the same with your AI agents), and the most important things to remember when using AI agents.
Before we jump in, a quick reminder: if The Modern .NET Show has become part of your learning journey, please consider supporting us through Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee. Every contribution helps us continue bringing you these in-depth conversations with industry experts. You'll find all the links in the show notes.
Anyway, without further ado, let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET.
Full Show Notes
The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/context-is-everything-getting-the-most-from-github-copilot-with-joydip-kanjilal/
Useful Links:
Joydip's website
Joydip's blog
Joydip's GitHub
Supporting the show:
Leave a rating or review
Buy the show a coffee
Become a patron
Getting in Touch:
Via the contact page
Joining the Discord
Remember to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or wherever you find your podcasts, this will help the show's audience grow. Or you can just share the show with a friend.
And don't forget to reach out via our Contact page. We're very interested in your opinion of the show, so please get in touch.
You can support the show by making a monthly donation on the show's Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/TheDotNetCorePodcast.
Music created by Mono Memory Music, licensed to RJJ Software for use in The Modern .NET Show.
Editing and post-production services for this episode were provided by MB Podcast Services.