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X launches hosted MCP server so AI tools can plug into its API directly

X now hosts its own MCP server, letting AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and Grok connect to the platform's API without developers building the integration.
Visual Studio Magazine

Uno Platform Helps Ship First Stable SkiaSharp 4.0 Release for 2D .NET Graphics

SkiaSharp 4.148.0 marks the first stable release in the SkiaSharp v4 line. The project is now co-maintained by Microsoft's .NET team and Uno Platform, reflecting a broader open-source collaboration.
GitHub

Zero encoding extreme performance binary serializer for C# and Unity.

Compared with System.Text.Json, protobuf-net, MessagePack for C#, Orleans.Serialization. Measured by .NET 7 / Ryzen 9 5950X machine. These serializers have IBufferWriter<byte> method, serialized using ...
GitHub

Sign-in a user with the Microsoft Identity Platform and call an ASP.NET web API that calls a downstream Web API with Conditional Access

This sample demonstrates a .NET web App and native client calling a .NET web API that is secured using Azure AD. Further on the API will also call a downstream API on-behalf of the signed-in user. The ...