30-year-old me: I'd love Union Types in C#!!!

50-year-old me: No! Nope! No!

#dotnet

You can now install BassBoom via WinGet! 🎉

#BassBoom #Music #MusicPlayer #MP3 #csharp #programming #dotnet #TechNews #TechUpdates

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/bassboom-is-now-available-via-winget/

BassBoom is now available via WinGet!

Starting from today, BassBoom, which is a cross-platform MPEG music player written in C# with libmpg123 as the backend library, is now available via WinGet! This was done as part of our package efforts to make installation easier for our users.

Previously, BassBoom was made available in the official Ubuntu PPA, the Windows Installer format, the Arch Linux PKGBUILD format, in Chocolatey package format, and in NuGet package format.

Now, we took a step further into doing what we did previously to Nitrocid to make installation easier for BassBoom users via WinGet, which is a package manager that lets you install programs with packages as the medium seamlessly with the command line interface. It eliminates the need to perform a web search to download a piece of software, which saves time and effort.

To learn more about how to install BassBoom using WinGet and the package release method, consult the Aptivi Newsroom article below.

Spectre.Console 0.55.0 has been released! 🎉

- New Spectre.Console.Ansi library for lightweight ANSI support
- Style is now a struct for better allocation performance
- Progress widget supports TimeProvider for deterministic testing
- Prompts accept CancellationToken
- Table rows support column spans

Contains breaking changes, so make sure you review the blog post before upgrading.

https://spectreconsole.net/blog/2025-11-13-spectre-console-0-55-released

#dotnet #csharp #opensource

Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter 477 - Week Ending April 3, 2026

https://zc.vg/ri3JM?m=0

#dewdrop #newsletter #javascript #css #azure #aspnetcore #aspire #windowsdev #xaml #cpp #dotnet #csharp #ai #mcp #agile #devops #appdev #dotnetmaui #podcasts #m365 #sqlserver #data #powershell #cli

Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.0.0 Release | GitHub

https://github.com/microsoft/agent-framework/releases/tag/dotnet-1.0.0

#dotnet #ai #agents #agentframework #csharp

Dew Drop – April 3, 2026 (#4639)

https://www.alvinashcraft.com/2026/04/03/dew-drop-april-3-2026-4639/

#dotnet #ai #webdev #windowsdev #csharp #appdev #vscode #cloud #visualstudio #devtools #dewdrop

From the Leanpub blog:

Welcome to the Leanpub Launch video for BUILDING 3D Tic-Tac-Toe with Blazor: A Practical Guide to .NET 10, C# 14 and Interactive Web Development by Harvey Myers IV!

Read & watch here:

https://leanpub.com/blog/leanpub-book-launch-building-3d-tic-tac-toe-with-blazor-a-practical-guide-to-net-10-c-14-and-interactive-web-development-by-harvey-myers-iv/

#books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #booklaunch #programming #csharp #dotnet #softwareengineering #games