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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey.bsky.social
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Experienced entrepreneur and Windows Development MVP: enterprise software by day, consumer software by night. Also @gcaughey on Twitter.

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Alvin Ashcraft @alvinashcraft.com · 09/09/2026
MSIX PackageVolume: How Package Storage Works | by Howard Kapustein buff.ly/ULR9NPy #windowsdev #msix #packaging #windows #appdev #packagemanager #security
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MSIX PackageVolume: How Package Storage Works - Inside MSIX
Learn how MSIX PackageVolume manages package storage, file systems, offline volumes, deployment APIs, and encryption.
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Interesting concepts discussed here which also applies without AI assistants
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Alvin Ashcraft @alvinashcraft.com · 05/08/2026
Remove Is Not Uninstall | by Howard Kapustein devblogs.microsoft.com/insidemsix/r... #windowsdev #msix #packaging #softwaredev #architecture
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Remove Is Not Uninstall - Inside MSIX
Removing an MSIX package isn't the same as uninstalling it. Learn how deregistration and destaging really work.
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's always a great feeling to be recognized for your efforts. Thanks to everyone who vouched for me again this year! 💗
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Alvin Ashcraft @alvinashcraft.com · 22/06/2026
File-based WinUI apps with Microsoft.UI.Reactor | by Morten Nielsen buff.ly/P3MG3SE #windowsdev #csharp #winui #windowsappsdk #dotnet
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dotMorten | File-based WinUI apps with Microsoft.UI.Reactor
dotMorten - .NET Ramblings, XAML hacking and some GIS endeavors - One of the things I've been wanting to try for a while was whether Reactor could work nicely with .N
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... Read this before you vibe-code another app
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Read this before you vibe-code another app
Your dream vibe-coded app might be a security nightmare.
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Congrats @unixterminal! You'll represent us well as a .NET Foundation Board of Directors member. opavote.com/results/5109...
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2026 .NET Foundation Board of Directors | OpaVote
See election results for 2026 .NET Foundation Board of Directors.
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ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The SqlClient roadmap is out 👇 buff.ly/PMrnu3E Worth checking if you care about: - connection pooling behavior - auth flows (Entra ID, MSI, etc.) - perf + reliability at scale Early feedback here can actually influence design decisions. #dotnet #sqlserver
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SqlClient/roadmap.md at main · dotnet/SqlClient
Microsoft.Data.SqlClient provides database connectivity to SQL Server for .NET applications. - dotnet/SqlClient
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Enjoying the art at ATL on the way to #MSBuild
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Updating a big UWP app to WinUI. AMA
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
May the 4th be with you! But today is also Melanoma Monday so check those spots!
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Real-world, anyone? It's great to see this type of session at MS Build this year: build.microsoft.com Beyond REST: .NET Apps That Talk to Hardware Most app demos stop at REST APIs. This live demo talks to real hardware.
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Microsoft Build, June 2-3, 2026 / San Francisco and online
Go deep on real code and real systems with the teams building and scaling AI at Microsoft Build, June 2–3, 2026, in San Francisco and online.
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
MVP application submitted ✅
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
How long was TSA line at ATL this morning with Precheck and Sky Priority? About 2 hours or 4000 steps for a positive slant.
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I'll be back in person at Microsoft Build again this year. I hope to see some of my old friends again even though this year's conference is more "intimate" and only 2 days long.
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
his morning I can only read new O365 mail from my work account on my iPhone and not on my Windows PC. Mail worked great. Outlook (new) and Outlook (pwa) not so much. Why, Microsoft, why?
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Conversion of big solution's data access to Dapper done except for final testing. Thanks, Gemini, for the help!
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Visual Studio's Copilot auto-completion is more accurate today. Does that mean I'm writing more boring code that usual?
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Kayla Cinnamon ☕️ @kaylacinnamon.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I built a web app with the GitHub Copilot SDK to make analyzing log files easier. It'll summarize them, provide a root cause analysis, and also link any GitHub issues they could be related to ✨ Check out the GitHub Copilot SDK here: github.com/github/copil...
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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026
@larsklint ‘s farm in country Victoria was hit by the recent bushfires. There’s a Gofundme to help him and the family get back on their feet: gofund.me/e40fc8d09
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
As a very long-time techie myself, I'm really enjoying @karaswisher.bsky.social's "tech love story" Burn Book. It's on Amazon here: www.amazon.com/s?k=kara+swi...
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Amazon.com : kara swisher burn book
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Either I got dumber over the holidays, or Visual Studio Copilot got smarter while I was away.
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Re-upping one of my favorite product design resolutions this year: Don't add features nobody asked for as default behavior or as hard to disable no matter how hard marketing tries to bully me about this.
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
So are we wagging the dog again now?
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XAML Llama 🦙 @xamlllama.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me 🦙🍐🎄 A Llama in a #FluentUI #XAML Tree… 🦙🍐🎄 Happy Holidays! We're back for a classic twist to preview the upcoming 2026 #XAMLStudio v2 w/ #12DaysOfXAML! Now with a new Fluent coat 🧥! #WindowsDev 🦙🍐🎄
Screenshot of Desktop with Llama field background behind XAML Studio v2 IDE showing updated Fluent UI Design. A new navigation view is on the left akin to the Microsoft Store, and the tabs are within the titlebar of the application on top. The preview pane on the top-half of the app shows a Christmas tree with Happy Holidays from the XAML Llama and to stay tuned each Christmas Day for more previews of XAML Studio v2. The Editor below shows the XAML code which creates the scene above it.
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Larry Osterman @larryosterman.github.io · 17/12/2025
At the Microsoft MVP summit, @kclemson.bsky.social, Raymond Chen and I did a talk consisting of stories from the past 40 or so years of Microsoft history. Unfortunately ir wasn't recorded. This fall, we recreated it on video to be shared, and I'm so happy we did.
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100 Years of Microsoft Stories
YouTube video by Microsoft Developer
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jaredpar @jaredpar.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Interested in working in .NET Tooling? My team is hiring for a few roles. This is a great to impact the .NET ecosystem, work with devs all across Microsoft and help drive the .NET platform forward. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
More like fog of character
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Still not loving Outlook (new)
Windows Outlook (new) showing blank email body instead of the actual body of the email
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Same!
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
My son learned to read by playing Zork. It’s great to see Zork live on.
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
6 million patient interaction summaries were generated by AI by Epic medical software last year. In the demo simulation, a mobile device (phone?) recorded the patient conversation and transmitted it to the Epic app for summarization and suggested tasks.
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I'm not sure my customers want to be "frontier firms", which have to "holistically reimagine their whole businesses". Even Copilot agrees!
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Continuing Windows evolution as a secure open platform for AI and Agents blogs.windows.com/windowsdevel...
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Ignite 2025: Furthering Windows as the premier platform for developers, governed by security
Continuing Windows evolution as a secure open platform for AI and Agents At Build, we
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Morten Nielsen @dotmorten.xaml.dev · 11/10/2025
If you want your WinUI app to launch to the tray, and optionally add a context menu to the tray, it is now SUPER simple with WinUIEx!
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
It's faster and more accessible. What's not to like?
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 11/11/2025
post quantum cryptography support! (that's what I'm most excited about)
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What's new in .NET libraries for .NET 10
Learn about the updates to the .NET libraries for .NET 10.
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Who uses .NET anyway? Over 7 million of us!
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Javier Suárez @jsuarezruiz.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Announcing .NET 10 devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/annou... #dotnet
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Announcing .NET 10 - .NET Blog
Announcing the release of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C# 14, .NET MAUI, Aspire, and so much more.
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Visual Studio 2026 is an impressive upgrade: faster, more capable, but still backward compatible. Check it out!
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Coming up at the top of the hour. See you there!
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Downloading .NET 10.
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Alvin Ashcraft @alvinashcraft.com · 10/11/2025
INotifyPodcastChanged Episode 12: Enterprise Apps with Ginny Caughey and hosts Joseph Finney & Tamás Deme buff.ly/DBE92af #podcast #devcommunity #windowsdev #dotnet #mvpbuzz
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INotifyPodcastChanged | Episode 12: Enterprise Apps with Ginny Caughey
This week our guest is Ginny Caughey, a Microsoft MVP of 22 years and an expert on enterprise application development. You can find Ginny on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/gcaughey.bsky.social an...
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween @marypcbuk.bsky.social and @sbisson.com ! Those were fun times.
Mary and Simon with devil horns for Halloween
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The .NETConf agenda is now live with many of your favorite presenters: www.dotnetconf.net/agenda
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.NET Conf 2025
Join the .NET Conf 2025 free virtual event November 11-13 2025 to learn about the newest developments across the .NET platform, open source, and dev tools. Mark your calendar!
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Do you want to talk to your PC? Do you want everybody in your office to do that?
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Alvin Ashcraft @alvinashcraft.com · 15/10/2025
Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Version 11111.16 Release Notes | Microsoft Learn buff.ly/4RSwVQf #visualstudio #vs2026 #dotnet #githubcopilot #productivity #developers
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Visual Studio Insiders Release Notes
Get the latest pre-release features, bug fixes, and support for Visual Studio Insiders. Download today.
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Fortunately, all the apps I support have been off .NET Framework for years now, but if you're not so lucky check out this video on modernizing .NET apps using GitHub Copilot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YKg...
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Modernize .NET apps in days with GitHub Copilot
YouTube video by dotnet
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Morten Nielsen @dotmorten.xaml.dev · 13/10/2025
Results from a little WinUIEx experiment this weekend. Simple API to create regions and set them: window.SetRegion( Region.CreateRectangle(window.GetBounds()) - Region(rectangle.GetBounds()); Can also be used to clip the outside of the window to a custom shape. #WinUI
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Ginny Caughey @gcaughey.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Happy 11th Birthday to Windows Insiders! I can't even remember that last time a fresh Canary build gave me real issues.
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