Yet Another Podcast

Episode 233: Azure Functions and Durable Functions

December 20th, 2025  |  Season 16  |  31 mins 40 secs

.net, programming

When writing APIs with C# and .net Azure Functions (without state) and Durable Functions (with state) are critical. This podcast kicks off a series of blog entries, podcasts, and video casts. This first one provides an overview of the topic.

Episode 10: James Montemagno on Vibe Coding

October 15th, 2025  |  34 mins 20 secs

James returns to discuss Vibe Coding with CoPilot and agents.

Episode 9: Lance McCarthy on CoPilot & MCP Servers

October 15th, 2025  |  39 mins 35 secs

Lance takes us through what MCP is, why it is important, and how to work with it. Video You can reach Lance here:https://bsky.app/profile/lance.bostonhttps://twitter.com/l_anceMHttps://dvlup.com

Episode 7: Visual Studio 2026! with Mads Kristensen

October 15th, 2025  |  32 mins 30 secs

Visual Studio 2026 is here. Mads takes us through the highlights View this podcast on YouTube

Episode 8: Scott Hunter

September 17th, 2025  |  39 mins 35 secs

Conversation with Scott Hunter (VP Microsoft) about Visual Studio, CoPilot Agents, MCP, Azure, Azure Functions and much more. Watch on YouTube Note: ZenCastr ate Scott’s links, but you can get started at https://learn.microsoft.com

Episode 6: Mads K (Microsoft) on Visual Studio and VSCode

August 31st, 2025  |  27 mins 9 secs

Mads K of Microsoft talks about the targeting of Visual Studio and VSCode. Towards the end, I ask him about a few of his favorite plugins. View this podcast on YouTube

Episode 5: Jeff Fritz on .NET Aspire and CoPilot Agents

August 5th, 2025  |  28 mins 33 secs

Jeff Fritz (Microsoft) joins me to talk about .NET Aspire, CoPilot Agents and Vibe programming. This is a show not to miss; his enthusiasm is catching and his knowledge is astonishing.

Episode 4: Richie Bonilla and Forage AI Email

June 19th, 2025  |  16 mins 32 secs

Forage is an AI email assistant that sorts your mail into categories, provides a summary once or twice a day (your choice) and summarizes newsletters into bullet points. I talk with Richie Bonilla (CEO and co-founder)* about his startup, what … Continue reading →

Episode 3: CoPilot Agents

June 4th, 2025  |  41 mins 25 secs

Prepare to have your mind blown. Copilot Agents are powerful AI tools for Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. Used to CoPilot? — you ain’t seen nothing yet! James Montemagno and Burke Holland of Microsoft discuss how to get it, … Continue reading →

Episode 2: Mike Kistler (Microsoft) on OpenAPI

May 14th, 2025  |  29 mins 32 secs

OpenAPI is the framework of choice for documenting APIs OpenAPI support in ASP.NET Core API appshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/overview?view=aspnetcore-9.0 Generate OpenAPI documents at build-timehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/aspnetcore-openapi?view=aspnetcore-9.0&tabs=visual-studio%2Cvisual-studio-code#generate-openapi-documents-at-build-time The project file property to set the directory where the OpenAPI should be saved is “OpenApiDocumentsDirectory” and it is documented here:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/aspnetcore-openapi?view=aspnetcore-9.0&tabs=visual-studio%2Cvisual-studio-code#modifying-the-output-directory-of-the-generated-open-api-file This section contains … Continue reading →

Episode 1: James Montemagno on blending .NET application development

March 7th, 2025  |  32 mins 13 secs

A fascinating discussion of building .Net MAUI applications with Blazor and JavaScript libraries. James’ enthusiasm is catching and he doesn’t disappoint in this interview. .NET Beginner Videos: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/videos Microsoft Learn Training: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/dotnet/ Workshops: http://github.com/dotnet-presentations .NET 10 – Next Page: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/next Bluesky: http://bsky.app/profile/james.montemagno.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@jamesmontemagno     … Continue reading →