--- title: "Season 8" url: https://dotnetcore.show/episodes/season-8/ description: "Season 8 of The Modern .NET Show — episodes published from September 2025 onwards." --- # Season 8 Season 8 of The Modern .NET Show. Conversations from across the .NET ecosystem, covering modern application development, AI, performance, and security. - [S08E24 - Giving AI Agents Safe Access to Your Data: SQL MCP Server with Jerry Nixon](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/giving-ai-agents-safe-access-to-your-data-sql-mcp-server-with-jerry-nixon/index.md) — 2026-07-24 - [S08E23 - From Pentest to 1.7 Million Downloads, Part 2: The Lessons Nobody Ever Taught Me](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/from-pentest-to-1-7-million-downloads-part-2-the-lessons-nobody-ever-taught-me/index.md) — 2026-07-10 - [S08E22 - From Pentest to 1.7 Million Downloads, Part 1: The Headers I'd Never Heard Of](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/from-pentest-to-1-7-million-downloads-part-1-the-headers-id-never-heard-of/index.md) — 2026-06-26 - [S08E21 - Beyond the Chatbot: AI-Enabled .NET MAUI Apps with Codrina Merigo](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/beyond-the-chatbot-ai-enabled-net-maui-apps-with-codrina-merigo/index.md) — 2026-06-12 - [S08E20 - Aspirifying the Enterprise: Building Modern Apps with Aspire with Joydip Kanjilal](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/aspirifying-the-enterprise-building-modern-apps-with-aspire-with-joydip-kanjilal/index.md) — 2026-05-29 - [S08E19 - Simplicity First: Why Complexity Is Not Sophistication with Chris Woodruff](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/simplicity-first-why-complexity-is-not-sophistication-with-chris-woodruff/index.md) — 2026-05-15 - [S08E18 - Measure Twice, Cut Once: Benchmarking, Hot Paths and the Chainsaw of Unsafe Code with Szymon Kulec](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/measure-twice-cut-once-benchmarking-hot-paths-and-the-chainsaw-of-unsafe-code-with-szymon-kulec/index.md) — 2026-05-01 - [S08E17 - Context Is Everything: Getting the Most from GitHub Copilot with Joydip Kanjilal](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/context-is-everything-getting-the-most-from-github-copilot-with-joydip-kanjilal/index.md) — 2026-04-17 - [S08E16 - IoT and .NET nanoFramwork: Andy Clark on Building Beyond the Limits](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/iot-and-net-nanoframwork-andy-clark-on-building-beyond-the-limit/index.md) — 2026-04-03 - [S08E15 - From Zero to 3D: Ben Bowen on TinyFFR's Rapid .NET Rendering](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/from-zero-to-3d-ben-bowen-on-tinyffrs-rapid-net-rendering/index.md) — 2026-03-20 - [S08E14 - From YAML Chaos to C# Clarity: Mattias Karlsson on Cake Build](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/from-yaml-chaos-to-csharp-clarity-mattias-karlsson-on-cake-build/index.md) — 2026-03-06 - [S08E13 - The Paper Cuts Microsoft Actually Fixes: A Deep Dive into .NET 10 with Mark J Price](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/the-paper-cuts-microsoft-actually-fixes-a-deep-dive-into-net-10-with-mark-j-price/index.md) — 2026-02-20 - [S08E12 - Jody Donetti on Creating FusionCache and Collaborating with Microsoft on HybridCache](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/jody-donetti-on-creating-fusioncache-and-collaborating-with-microsoft-on-hybridcache/index.md) — 2026-02-06 - [BONUS: Jamie's Appearance on Coder Radio 640 - GitHub's Spec-Kit](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/bonus-coder-radio-episode-640-snippet/index.md) — 2026-02-02 - [S08E11 - From Chaos to Control: Anton Moldovan on Load Testing with NBomber](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/from-chaos-to-control-anton-moldovan-on-load-testing-with-nbomber/index.md) — 2026-01-23 - [S08E10 - NDepend with Patrick Smacchia: Scaling .NET Code Quality](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/ndepend-with-patrick-smacchia-scaling-net-code-quality/index.md) — 2026-01-09 - [S08E09 - Unpacking Visual Studio 2026: New Features, Bug Fixes, and What's Coming Next with Mads Kristensen](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/unpacking-visual-studio-2026-new-features-bug-fixes-and-whats-coming-next-with-mads-kristensen/index.md) — 2025-12-12 - [S08E08 - Building on .NET 10: A Chat with Kajetan Duszyńsk, Author of '.NET 10 Revealed'](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/building-on-net-10-a-chat-with-kajetan-duszynsk-author-of-net-10-revealed/index.md) — 2025-11-28 - [S08E07b - Hayden Barnes and CVE-2025-33515](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/hayden-barnes-and-cve-2025-55315/index.md) — 2025-11-21 - [S08E07 - Hayden Barnes on .NET NES: Why We Need a New Approach to Open Source Maintenance](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/hayden-barnes-on-net-nes-why-we-need-a-new-approach-to-open-source-maintenance/index.md) — 2025-11-21 - [S08E06 - Testing Made Easy: Debbie O'Brien Explains Playwright and its Game-Changing MCP Server](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/testing-made-easy-debbie-obrien-explains-playwright-and-its-game-changing-mcp-server/index.md) — 2025-11-14 - [S08E05 - Building the Future of APIs: Mike Kistler's Insights on OpenAPI and MCP](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/building-the-future-of-apis-mike-kistlers-insights-on-openapi-and-mcp/index.md) — 2025-11-07 - [S08E04 - Data, AI, and the Human Touch: Michael Washington on Building Trustworthy Applications](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/data-ai-and-the-human-touch-michael-washington-on-building-trustworthy-applications/index.md) — 2025-10-24 - [S08E03 - Designing APIs Like a Pro: Lessons from Jerry Nixon on Data API Builder and Beyond](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/designing-apis-like-a-pro-lessons-from-jerry-nixon-on-data-api-builder-and-beyond/index.md) — 2025-10-10 - [S08E02 - Compassionate Coding: Safia Abdalla's Insights on Empathy in Open-Source Development](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/compassionate-coding-safia-abdallas-insights-on-empathy-in-open-source-development/index.md) — 2025-09-26 - [S08E01 - Umbraco Unplugged: Emma Burstow & Mats Persson on Umbraco Being The Friendly, Truly Open-Source, CMS](https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/umbraco-unplugged-emma-burstow-mats-persson-on-umbraco-the-friendly-cms/index.md) — 2025-09-12