Best of Nick Chapsas — January 2025

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    Everything a .NET Developer Needs to Know in 2025

    A detailed guide for .NET developers outlining essential skills and tools for 2025. It emphasizes varying levels of knowledge based on experience from junior to principal levels. Highlights include the importance of version control with Git, the use of modern IDEs like Visual Studio and Rider, new features in .NET 9, and the increasing relevance of AI with tools like ChatGPT. Additional recommendations cover databases, testing frameworks, caching strategies, and architecture paradigms.

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    Why is .NET so Insanely Fast? with Stephen Toub

    Nick engages in a detailed discussion with Stephen Toub, a Partner Software Engineer at Microsoft, about the performance improvements in .NET 9, including the integration of AI and the advancements in Profile Guided Optimization (PGO). They also cover the impact of open-source contributions on .NET's performance and explore the evolution of API usability and performance in .NET Core.

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    The New Way to Seed Your Database in .NET 9

    Learn about the new database seeding approach introduced in .NET 9 using EF Core 99. The post includes a step-by-step guide, highlights the importance of managing the seed process to avoid concurrency issues, and addresses the use of synchronization methods for effective data seeding.

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