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CODE Magazine continues to publish technical “how to” and “overview” articles about current and new technologies, as we have for over 25 years with sample source code, showing new and experienced developers modern techniques for how to build software used inside companies, on mobile devices and deployed to the cloud. Join our audience of software professionals every other month.

DON'T PANIC • I've always been a huge fan of Douglas Adams. In an interview, he once described a stint living in my home state of New Mexico and passing “existential” signs along the road that read, “Gusty Winds May Exist.” To this day, I think of him and crack a wry smile every time I see one of those road signs.

AI-Assisted Development with Gemini • Not too long ago, I wrote an article on AI and developer productivity (https://www.codemag.com/Article/2509021/AI-and-Developer-Productivity). While a lot of what I had written in that article still holds true, technology has improved by leaps and bounds in the past few months. I hear

Hands-on MCP: Building Servers and Clients with Python • Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard developed by Anthropic that defines how AI models communicate with external tools and data sources. If you are new to MCP, CODE Magazine has already published a previous article (https://www.codemag.com/Article/2511071/MCP-Building-the-Bridge-Between-AI-and-the-Real-World) that covers the fundamentals in detail.

Designing Signal-First Form State (Without Recreating Reactive Forms) • Angular's move toward signals has forced many experienced developers to confront an uncomfortable realization: much of what we have historically described as “reactive” UI design was never truly state-driven. It was event-driven, stream-oriented, and often incidental in how state

Building a Distributed Application Using .NET Aspire and Deploying it to Azure • Building distributed applications has historically been difficult because of the many disparate components in the distributed application stack, such as user interface components, services, and data stores that need to be managed, configured, and orchestrated. Thanks to the code-first

Q-Day: Is Your Data Safe? • For your first task at work, you check your emails. There is an urgent email from one of your coworkers, titled “Is our data safe? How are we affected?” The content of it are the articles “Q-Day has come; for the first time a quantum computer managed to factorize large integers

The .NET AI Stack • The best way to build an AI solution is evolving almost as fast as LLMs themselves. ChatGPT was publicly released on November 30, 2022, and like many of us, I tried it for the first time in January 2023. My first attempt at incorporating it into an application came later that summer.

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