The Modern .NET Show

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"There's so much that we can talk about with. NET 10 and related things like C# 14. So I'm going to try and focus on a few of the highlights that are personal highlights for me So let's start with the language actually, C# 14."— Mark J Price
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 Mark J Price to talk about some of our favourite things in .NET 10 and his new four-part book series on, quite literally, everything .NET. Mark is one of the most prolific authors in the .NET space at the moment, and his new book series is shaping up to be a fantastic resource.
"One of the things that I've always appreciated with Microsoft and their culture is that they have a very strong requirement that thing things are as backwards compatible as possible."— Mark J Price
Along the way, we talked about the recent changes to the STS (aka Standard Term Support) lifecycle for .NET, brining more support to the odd numbered versions of .NET and giving companies more time to migrate from one version to the next. We also covered a very important point when it comes to either STS or LTS towards the end of the episode: essentially, keep your runtimes up to date, folks.
This episode marks the fifth appearance of Mark on the show. Mark has been a wonderful collaborator over the years, and long may that continue. We joke about the fact that Mark deserves an award for the guest with the most episodes, but maybe he does deserve an award. Unless someone out there is willing to beat his record, of course.
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/the-paper-cuts-microsoft-actually-fixes-a-deep-dive-into-net-10-with-mark-j-price/
Useful Links:
Mark's Books: C# 14 and .NET 10 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals
Real-World Web Development with .NET 10
Apps and Services with .NET 10
Tools and Skills for .NET 10

Mark on GitHub
Packt Publishing Discord
.NET Pro newsletter
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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
"The idea is that you get you have some sort of source. It's called usually the single source of truth, which is usually a database. In the case of web caching is the remote server that is the authoritative uh source of truth."— Jody Donetti
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 to talk about FusionCache, caching in general, and what in-memory, distributed, and hybrid caching are. Note: hybrid caching ins't the same as the Microsoft library HybridCache.
"That's the first problem. The second problem is that by using a distributed cache directly, you pay the price of network calls and deserialization every single cache call that you make."— Jody Donetti
Along the way, we talked about open source development, how Jody got started with working in the open, and that listeners should never be scared of working in the open. If you're building something for fun or to learn (rather than to give back or create the next big open source library), then let people know in the readme.
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/jody-donetti-on-creating-fusioncache-and-collaborating-with-microsoft-on-hybridcache/
Useful Links:
Jody's courses on Dometrain
FusionCache
HybridCache
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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.

Show Notes
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. This episode is a slight departure from the standard episode format, as it's a snippet of an episode of Code Radio.
I was invited to discuss GitHub's SpecKit on Coder Radio as I'd been talking about it on the Discord server for the show for a while and really believe in it's transformative power as one of the better Coding-with-AI frameworks.
During the episode, I brough up ClawdBot which immediately aged the episode. Clawdbot has gone through two name changes since the episode was recorded and this bonus episode was released: first to MoltBot then to OpenClaw.
Another thing to note is that, since the episode went live Michael has opened up his Code for Climate 2026 — The Mad Botter Earth Day Open Source Challenge for anyone in K-12 and college education. So if you know folks who would be interested, send them the link. There are some amazing prizes up for grabs, including a couple of System76 computer systems and even a paid internship at The Mad Botter Inc.
Anyway, let's get to the episode.
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/bonus-coder-radio-episode-640-snippet/
Useful Links:
Coder Radio
The Modern .Net Shows' Jamie Taylor
SpecKit
Coder Radio Discord
Code for Climate 2026 — The Mad Botter Earth Day Open Source Challenge
OpenClaw
OWASP
Michael's Links
Website
LinkedIn
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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
"Another thing which I also observed is that there is some benefit to be able to run your load test in your native... using your native platform, libraries, protocol access; those type of things. Because in our case, for example, we use Orleans and it's a proprietary protocol which doesn't exist in in Java in Scala language. The same about, almost the same, was about Signal R: Microsoft released SignalR for Java, but the quality of this library was different."— Anton Moldovan
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 Anton Moldovan to talk about load testing, advice for testing strategies, and how NBomber can help you to load test your applications. Are you sure that your application can handle 4 million users at once? Better load test it before you start boasting.
"We call this type of test, like, "user journey." Like, end-to-end simulating user journey across entire applications. So end-to-end, end-to-end flow, end-to-end tests. But this type of test they they have some downsides."— Anton Moldovan
Along the way, we talked the different types of testing involved in getting your application for production, the many different ways that NBomber (or other load testing suites) can help you prepare for that, and Anton helps us understand a little more about functional programming.
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/from-chaos-to-control-anton-moldovan-on-load-testing-with-nbomber/
Useful Links:
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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
"So the interest plays a lot of a huge role. Like for example a security issue, it can take you maybe half a day to fix, or maybe one hour to fix; so it's very easy to fix. But if you don't fix it, you get so... you'll get so many angry users that it may be, it maybe, it will cost you your entire business; you see. So this can be seen as an interest."— Patrick Smacchia
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 Patrick Smacchia to talk about NDepend, technical debt and the interest it accrues (something that's often forgotten about), and how NDepend can help you to keep your tech debt (and it's interest) low.
"But the thing we see is that the edge code is usually the code where you get the bugs. So you end up writing some quick tests that can cover 90% of your code, but your 10% here is not tested. And because it's not well implemented and it's likely to contain the bug. So, maybe you should refactor your code and make your class testable."— Patrick Smacchia
Along the way, we talked about the common pitfalls that most developers make when writing code, and how to keep your code both testable and easy to maintain.
We also took some time to talk about bug reports, the things that you and I can do to ensure that our bug reports are read, providing positive feedback, the Visual Studio teams' velocity, and some of the amazing new features in Visual Studio 2026 like the ... well, I'm getting ahead of myself. You'll have to listen in to the episode to find out what those features are.
Before we jump in, a quick reminder: if The Modern .NET Show has become part of your learning journey, please consider supporting us through Patreonor 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/ndepend-with-patrick-smacchia-scaling-net-code-quality/
Useful Links:
NDepend Trial download
Blog
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Episode 112 - NDepend with Patrick Smacchia
CQLinq
Patrick on LinkedIn
NDepend on LinkedIn
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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.