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David Pine

@davidpine.net

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💜 Loving husband & father. 🤓 Building http://aspire.dev @Microsoft. 🏫 @oreillymedia and @dometrain author. 🔥 #blazor #dotnet #csharp #aspire #aspnet #signalr

🏅 6x Google Developer Expert—Web
🌐 https://davidpine.net
👨🏽‍💻 https://github.com/IEvangelist

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David Pine

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Nice! @aspire.dev is now officially represented on the #starlight's showcase:

#aspire 💜 #community

starlight.astro.build/resources/sh...

November 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM

David Pine

@davidpine.net

🤓 I asked @GitHubCopilot to review a PR. It suggested a change. I told it to go ahead and apply it. Then it opened a PR back to me—complete with a gorgeous auto-generated visual of the update. This isn't coding anymore… it's collaboration. 🤯 #AIwon

A visual comparison of before and after GitHub Copilot made some changes in a PR.

November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM

David Pine

@davidpine.net

🤔 Have any websites that you want to deploy to #Netlify, I wrote an #aspire hosting integration for you... @aspire.dev

AppHost.cs code that publishes an NpmResource as a Netlify site.

October 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM

David Pine

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I put #GitHub #Copilot + #context7 to the test in #VSCode. 🚀

In 60 mins, I went from a blank #NextJs starter to a polished Netflix clone ("Nextflix") using The Movie DB API + tmdb-ts.

What once took teams weeks, AI helped me build solo. 🤯

🔗 github.com/IEvangelist/...

Netflix-inspired streaming app landing page showing TRON: Ares as the featured movie. The hero section displays the TRON: Ares title, PG-13 rating, release year 2025, and a 6.7 star rating. Description reads: A highly sophisticated Program called Ares is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind's first encounter with AI beings. Play and More Info buttons are visible. The background features a stylized digital cityscape with a glowing yellow light cycle moving through geometric buildings, evoking a futuristic and adventurous mood. Navigation links for TV Shows, Movies, Search, New and Popular, and My List appear at the top, with a dark theme and neon accents. The emotional tone is energetic and immersive, capturing the excitement of a sci-fi streaming experience.

Four superheroes in blue suits with the number 4 on their chests stand in front of a futuristic blue car on a city street, with tall buildings and a large monument in the background. The movie details modal displays the title The Fantastic 4: First Steps, PG-13 rating, release year 2025, runtime 1 hour 55 minutes, and a 7.2 star rating. Description reads: Against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvels First Family is forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, while defending Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic herald, Silver Surfer. Genres listed are Science Fiction and Adventure. Release date is 7/22/2025. Production credits are Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige Productions. The emotional tone is heroic and adventurous, evoking excitement and anticipation for a superhero film.

October 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM

David Pine

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🤓 File-based apps in C# are insane! I love them...my package.json has a script that is simply `dotnet run file.cs`.

#javascript 💜 #csharp

September 30, 2025 at 4:29 AM

David Pine

@davidpine.net

🤓 Tell me you use #code's — #GitHubCopilot ✨ button near the commit message input textbox (to auto generate a message) without telling me that you do...

I'll go first 🤣:

A generated commit message, that reads "Implement feature X to enhance user experience and fix bug Y in module Z".

September 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM

David Pine

@davidpine.net

It's been super energizing working on the #aspire brand refresh + docs re-platforming. Here's a few sneak peeks! 🤓

✨ Fresh new docs UX
📖 Simplified nav and structure
🎨 Modern themes
🔍 Better discoverability
☑️ Asciinema terminal embeds

Built with 💜 at Microsoft — @aspire.dev

Work in progress Aspire landing/marketing page.

Proposed new Aspire page for creating your fist app.

Conceptual content will be more concisely conveyed with modern flexibility in the new platform.

An all-new Aspire integrations gallery page, with search/filtering, and download counts.

September 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM

David Pine

@davidpine.net

TFW you realize that someone is trolling you... @sebastienros.me poaches backgrounds, uses them on Teams calls, and acts as if nothing is going on. 🤣

August 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM

David Pine

@davidpine.net

The faithful couple sequoia in Yosemite.

June 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM

David Pine

@davidpine.net

🤓 For the first time ever, we’re going deeper—detailing the underlying architecture (specifically, DCP) of #dotnet #aspire:

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet...

.NET Aspire app host architecture diagram.

May 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM

David Pine

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Some of the people responsible for #dotnet #aspire gathered together for a team dinner—via Microsoft Build. 🤓

From bottom left, following clockwise: Jose Perez, Damian Edwards, Stephen Toub, Allistair Matthews, David Fowler, Glenn Condron, Maddy Montaquila, Jeff Fritz, Steve Carroll, David Negstad, Aaron Powell, David Pine, Andy De George, Brady Gaster.

May 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM

David Pine

@davidpine.net

After getting my badge and expert hoodie for Microsoft Build, I spent the day stomping around Seattle with a friend. We visited the #MoPOP and #spaceNeedle. It was a blast!

May 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM

David Pine

@davidpine.net

🙊 Uh oh...AI needs to make sure that it's keeping itself up to date with latest versions, especially for stuff like this.

🙈 .NET 7 was out of support May '24, but is recommended as latest.

🙉 I know, I know...thou shalt not say anything negative about AI.

#dotnet #copilot

January 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM

David Pine

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📢 New article drop: Artificial intelligence (AI) in .NET.

Covering the preview 📦 #MicrosoftExtesnionsAI #nuget package. Explore unified interfaces and implementations for #ollama, #OpenAI, #Azure #OpenAI and #AIInference.

learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/...

An example .NET app using the Ollama chat client, streaming APIs with the unified IChatClient interface and demonstrating tool calling.

December 18, 2024 at 2:00 PM

David Pine

@davidpine.net

🤓 I recently learned that @VisualStudio supports a new Upgrade mode, where you can opt-in to Central Package Management (CPM). This is a lot cleaner in my opinion in terms of version management, and it's now easy to upgrade:

#dotnet #nuget

Visual Studio: Successful Upgrade using the .NET Upgrade Assistant to CPM.

December 17, 2024 at 3:55 AM

David Pine

@davidpine.net

🤓 Micronetes -> Project Tye -> .NET Aspire

Any of this look familiar, it was a dashboard UX that was archived more nearly 5 years ago....

#dotnet #aspire @davidfowl.com

December 13, 2024 at 8:28 PM

David Pine

@davidpine.net

🤓 Hey, look at how easy it is to integrate with .NET Aspire. I was inspired by our guest speaker that joined us On .NET Live to share his #HomeAssistant bits with #Kafka.

#dotnet #aspire

Community Toolkit: .NET Aspire — HomeAssistant hosting integration.

.NET Aspire app host: Consuming the HomeAssistant integration.

.NET Aspire dashboard: Depicting running HomeAssistant persistent container with HTTP health check.

December 10, 2024 at 2:15 PM

David Pine

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🤓 My #AzureCosmosDB Repository-Pattern #nuget package now includes support for #dotnet #aspire—serving as a "client integration" and works with the existing "hosting integration":

IRepository FTW.

www.nuget.org/packages/IEv...

.NET Aspire app host: Program.cs including the standard Azure CosmosDB hosting integration.

An ASP.NET Core Minimal API Program.cs file that includes a package reference to IEvangelist.Azure.CosmosRepository and adds the services.

Endpoint definitions for a fully functioning TODO API, with IRepository<T>.

December 5, 2024 at 1:56 PM

David Pine

@davidpine.net

🤓 TIL about GitHub Receipt: gitreceipt.vercel.app

👀 Here's mine...

#developercommunity #gitReceipt #csharp #typescript #html

🤓 TIL about GitHub Receipt: https://gitreceipt.vercel.app

My GitHub Receipt, that shows 100 repos, 1,448 stars earned, 407 forked repos, 930 followers, top languages of C#, TypeScript and HTML.

December 4, 2024 at 2:44 AM

David Pine

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I wish that in C# I could define a keyword overload so to speak, for the "with" keyword. I'm really keen on using the "with" keyword and syntax to create non-destructive mutations, but I don't want to be limited to records. Nor do I want to write two methods. ☹️ #dotnet #csharp

// GitHub 🤓: @IEvangelist
// X (Twitter) 🧢: @davidpine7
// Bluesky 🦋: @davidpine.bsky.social

// Item isn't a record type, so my Todo type cannot be a record either.
// But I really want to be able to do this:
//
// Todo todo = "🐕 Walk the dog.";
//
// // Imagine time passes and you actually walk the dog.
// // To update the todo, mark it as complete:
//
// todo = todo with { IsCompleted = true };
//
public sealed class Todo(string Title) : Item
{
public bool IsCompleted { get; set; }

public static implicit operator Todo(string title) => new(title)
{
IsCompleted = false
};
}

November 26, 2024 at 4:31 AM

David Pine

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🤣 Not a lot of people noticed the wrong logo being used during the .NET Aspire presentation. It was intended to be the #rustlang, not #rustgameengine logo. But it's so easy to do these things in #dotnet #aspire that @bradygaster.bsky.social made it so!

github.com/bradygaster/...

Screen capture of .NET Aspire running the RUST server - with a game running side-by-side.

Screen capture of .NET Aspire running the RUST server - with a game running side-by-side and a nighttime scene, and messages coming through.

.NET Aspire sample extension method, showing the RUST server code.

November 13, 2024 at 1:57 PM

David Pine

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🤯 Have a scenario in .NET Aspire where you want to take an action when an event occurs in the app host, perhaps specifically to a resource... look no further than, "Eventing in .NET Aspire":

#dotnet @dotnetcnf #aspire

learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspir...

.NET Aspire app host Program.cs file showing "Eventing" APIs.

November 12, 2024 at 8:34 PM

David Pine

@davidpine.net

⚡ With .NET Aspire 9.0, @captainsafia.bsky.social and team worked on getting all the bits in place to deliver an amazing preview of ".NET Aspire Azure Functions integration":

#dotnet #dotnetconf #aspire

learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspir...