Thoughts on .NET, AI & the Craft

Original articles by Sushant Dadhwal — written from real experience building government portals, education board systems, and enterprise .NET applications. No fluff. No copied content. Just honest technical insight.

AI & .NET 9 min read Featured

AI-Powered Features in ASP.NET Core: What Developers Should Know in 2025

From intelligent autocomplete APIs to semantic search and real-time recommendations — this is how I explored integrating AI capabilities directly inside ASP.NET Core applications without over-engineering everything.

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ASP.NET Core 8 min read Featured

Why I Still Choose ADO.NET Over Entity Framework for Government Projects

After working on high-volume education board portals, I have a clear opinion on this debate. Here is the real-world case for raw ADO.NET with stored procedures, and why it matters more than you think.

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SQL Server 10 min read

SQL Server Stored Procedures: Patterns That Actually Scale

From basic CRUD wrappers to complex upsert patterns, output parameters, and error handling — these are the stored procedure techniques I use on production systems handling millions of records.

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ASP.NET Core 11 min read

Building Secure Web APIs in ASP.NET Core: A Practical Checklist

Security is not a feature you add at the end. Here is the checklist I follow when building ASP.NET Core Web APIs for government and healthcare projects — authentication, authorization, rate limiting, input validation and more.

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AI & .NET 7 min read Featured

Using GitHub Copilot as a .NET Developer: Honest Thoughts After 6 Months

I used GitHub Copilot extensively across ASP.NET Core projects for six months. Here is what genuinely helped, what I had to unlearn, and my honest opinion on whether it makes you a better or lazier developer.

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Career & Dev 8 min read

From BCA Graduate to .NET Developer: What Nobody Tells You

My real journey from completing BCA at Khalsa College Mohali to working on production government portals. The skills college did not teach, the mistakes I made, and what actually got me hired and kept me growing.

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