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A deep dive into the cross-assembly linking, PDB-based source links, TFM scanning, enrichment merging, and search indexing that power our API reference documentation pipeline.

We generate about 8,800 API reference pages from 16 libraries across two engine versions, with source links, TFM availability badges, and hand-authored enrichments - all from a single PowerShell pipeline. Here's how.

A flat copilot-instructions.md works for small projects. When your codebase hits 500k lines, 19 projects, and multiple code generators, you need something more structured. Here's how we built a modular skills library for Corvus.Text.Json - and the design principles that make it work.

When you execute a DAX query, two engines divide up the work. Understanding the split between the formula engine and the storage engine is key to writing performant DAX.

Traditional cloud SLAs measure API uptime, not behavioural stability. This post talks about how silent AI model drift can quietly break your agents and the questions you might want to ask vendors.

Microsoft's new WSL Containers (wslc) promises container management on Windows without Docker Desktop. I tried it with dev containers, Aspire, and Docker Compose - here's what works, what doesn't, and whether you should switch yet.

Implement a custom IMessageTransport for brokers not covered by the built-in packages - PublishAsync, SubscribeAsync, RequestAsync, dead-letter routing, and optional health check support.

Test Corvus-generated AsyncAPI producers and consumers without a running broker - unit test handler logic with typed payloads, verify producer output with message capture, and integration test the full publish-consume round-trip using InMemoryMessageTransport.

Generate producers and consumers for only the channels you need - use channel filtering, tag selection, and the asyncapi-show preview command to carve focused messaging code from large AsyncAPI specifications.

Configure durable message delivery for Corvus-generated AsyncAPI consumers - Kafka consumer groups, AMQP acknowledgement, NATS JetStream, MQTT persistent sessions, and Azure Service Bus PeekLock settlement.

Add observability to Corvus-generated AsyncAPI producers and consumers - OpenTelemetry distributed tracing, message throughput metrics, processing loop heartbeats, and ASP.NET Core health checks for transport connectivity.

Generate typed request/reply methods from AsyncAPI specs with Corvus - correlated messaging with zero-allocation correlation IDs, typed response payloads, timeout management, and support for both AsyncAPI 3.0 reply objects and 2.6 x-corvus-reply extensions.

Generate typed message consumers from AsyncAPI specs with Corvus - handler interfaces with pre-validated payloads, configurable error policies, dead-letter routing, and Polly resilience middleware.

Generate strongly-typed message producers from AsyncAPI specs using the Corvus CLI - validated payloads, channel address templates, and pluggable transports for NATS, Kafka, AMQP, MQTT, and Azure Service Bus.

Test Corvus-generated OpenAPI code at every level - unit test handler logic in isolation with typed params, integration test the full round-trip with WebApplicationFactory, and verify client behaviour with in-memory transports.

Generate code for only the endpoints you need - use path filtering and the openapi-show preview command to carve focused, domain-specific clients and server stubs from large OpenAPI specifications.

Generate typed webhook receivers and senders from OpenAPI specs with Corvus - callback server stubs for receiving notifications, callback clients for sending them, runtime expression resolution, and linked operations for hypermedia-style API navigation.

Rx.NET 7.0 is now available, with the potential to reduce deployable application size by up to 90MB.

Corvus generates per-operation OAuth2 scope constants from your OpenAPI spec - use them with standard .NET DelegatingHandler middleware and Azure.Identity for type-safe authentication without proprietary frameworks.

Generate typed streaming responses from OpenAPI specs with Corvus - SSE and NDJSON on the server with writer callbacks, IAsyncEnumerable on the client with pooled typed documents and automatic frame parsing.

Wire a Corvus-generated OpenAPI client to a generated server over real HTTP - both sides validated against the same spec, with generated OAuth2 scope constants for type-safe authentication.

Generate ASP.NET Core server stubs from OpenAPI specs with Corvus - handler interfaces with pre-validated parameters, typed result factories, and automatic Problem Details responses for invalid requests.

Generate strongly-typed HTTP clients from OpenAPI 3.x specs using the Corvus CLI - zero-allocation models, exhaustive response matching, and built-in schema validation with a single dotnet tool command.

Star schema vs flat table vs header/detail - which Power BI model design gives you the best performance? This post compares all three and covers practical testing tips.

Workspace topology is one of the first decisions you'll make in Microsoft Fabric, and one of the hardest to undo once you're underway. This post will help you start with the right foundations in place.