These are the projects I recommend building instead of just buying something off the shelf.

If you're considering PuppeteerSharp for PDF generation, here's the version of the story that doesn't show up in the "getting started" docs.

A recreation of the classic Visual Basic 6 IDE and language in C# using Avalonia. This is a fun, toy project with no commercial intent. All rights to the Visual Basic name, icons, and graphics belong ...

This repository contains an quickstart project for Microsoft Azure Service Fabric. The quickstart project contains a single application with multiple services demonstrating the basic concepts of ...

After a focus in .NET 9 around intelligent app development, subsequent releases have shifted attention back to core platform work. Coders are still complaining, though, with operational friction a ...

Microsoft has released version 10 of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio 2026. Both are available immediately and offer bug fixes as well as new features for developers. The releases focus on ...

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Microsoft and GitHub have made GitHub Copilot app modernization available for both .NET and Java applications, offering developers an AI-powered path to upgrade legacy codebases and migrate them to ...

With the availability of the .NET MAUI 9 version in .NET 9.0, Microsoft has expanded the range of functions of the UI framework and also worked on the stability of the framework and the generated apps ...