YPYogeshwar Peelainexploitnotes.hashnode.dev·21h ago · 9 min readTryHackMe : After Hours WriteupSummary The provided archive contains a raw dump of a Windows CIM repository - the backing store for WMI (INDEX.BTR, MAPPING1.MAP, MAPPING2.MAP, MAPPING3.MAP, OBJECTS.DATA, normally found at C:\Window00
CDCoding Dropletsincodingdroplets.com·13h ago · 14 min readHybrid Search in .NET: When to Use It and How for Better RAG RetrievalThe first RAG system I shipped answered beautifully about concepts and failed completely on part numbers. Ask it "how do I reset a stuck deployment" and it nailed the answer. Ask it "what does error P00
CDCoding Dropletsincodingdroplets.com·1d ago · 13 min readMigrating from AutoMapper to Mapperly in .NET: A Step-by-Step GuideAutoMapper has been the default object mapper in .NET for over a decade, and for most of that time nobody thought about it. Version 15.0.0 changed that. It ships under a dual license now, with a free 00
CDCoding Dropletsincodingdroplets.com·2d ago · 11 min readWhy Your RAG Answers Still Hallucinate in .NET: Root Cause and FixYou built the pipeline. Documents are chunked, embedded, and sitting in a vector store. Retrieval returns results. And your RAG answers still hallucinate in .NET, confidently telling users about a stu42LK
Sspipaliya8insudhirpipaliya.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 5 min readWhy Calling ToList() Too Early Can Hurt EF Core PerformanceIf you've worked with Entity Framework Core, you've probably used ToListAsync() hundreds of times. There's nothing wrong with using it—but calling it too early in your query can significantly impact y00
CDCoding Dropletsincodingdroplets.com·3d ago · 12 min readMigrating from Swashbuckle to Built-In OpenAPI in .NET 10: A Step-by-Step GuideYou upgraded a working API to .NET 10, hit build, and Swashbuckle fell apart. Missing namespaces, OpenApiSchema refusing to compile, AddSecurityRequirement complaining about a delegate it never wanted00
CDCoding Dropletsincodingdroplets.com·4d ago · 12 min readUnable to Create an Object of Type DbContext in EF Core: Causes and FixesYou add an entity, run dotnet ef migrations add AddOrders, and the tooling stops dead: Unable to create an object of type 'AppDbContext'. For the different patterns supported at design time, see https10
JJNBridgeinjnbridge.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 7 min readBest Way to Run Java from C#/.NET in 2026: Honest Method ComparisonIf you need Java code to run inside a C# or .NET workflow, the real question is not "can it be done?" It obviously can. The question is which integration method gives you the best mix of latency, main00
JMJuan Miguel Nietoinjmnieto.hashnode.dev·Jul 31 · 9 min readAppreciating MediatR by Jimmy BogardIt might be a little late to write about MediatR. Since the library moved to a commercial license, it has sparked plenty of discussion in the .NET community. Some developers have embraced the change, 00
SKSahil Khuranaininnostaxengineering.hashnode.dev·Jul 2 · 13 min readDesigning .NET Microservices for Edge Computing in IoT and 5GKey Takeaways Cloud roundtrips sound fine until you’re building something where the response window is 10 milliseconds. At that point, the architecture either works at the edge or it doesn’t work at 00
