A Span<T> cannot cross an await boundary
Keep span work between awaits. Carry memory or its backing buffer through asynchronous I/O.
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Graceful Degradation for AI Features
How to keep an AI-enabled product useful when a dependency fails, without hiding reduced capability or returning unsafe substitutes.
Querying Qdrant from .NET
Turn a question into an embedding, apply payload filters, query Qdrant from .NET, and inspect the ranked results without treating a similarity score as proof of relevance.
Building the .NET AI App Foundation
A small ASP.NET Core foundation for model access, validated configuration, tracing, buffered and streaming HTTP contracts, and future AI capabilities.
Use DateTimeOffset for instants that cross system boundaries
Use DateTimeOffset for timestamps sent through APIs, messages, or storage when they must identify one unambiguous point in time.
Indexing Your First Documents
Index documents in Qdrant from .NET with Azure OpenAI or local Ollama embeddings, stable point IDs, useful payloads, and a read-back check.
Define what AI telemetry may contain before recording content
Define allowed fields, redaction, access, and retention before capturing AI inputs, outputs, or tool content for debugging.
nameof(List<>) works without a generic type argument in C# 14
C# 14 lets you write nameof(List<>) instead of supplying a type argument just to get the name. The result is still List.
Review EF Core migrations as database changes
Review generated EF Core operations, inspect the deployment SQL, and check application compatibility before applying schema changes.
Pin the .NET SDK with a deliberate roll-forward policy
Commit global.json and choose whether builds require an exact SDK or may use newer installed patches or feature bands.