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Incremental Builddotnet/skillsGuide for optimizing MSBuild incremental builds. USE FOR: builds slower than expected on subsequent runs, 'nothing changed but it rebuilds anyway', diagnosing why targets re-execute unnecessarily, fixing broken no-op builds. Covers 8 common causes: missing Inputs/Outputs on custom targets, volatile properties in output paths (timestamps/GUIDs), file writes outside tracked Outputs, missing FileWrites registration, glob changes, Visual Studio Fast Up-to-Date Check (FUTDC) issues. Key diagnostic: look for 'Building target completely' vs 'Skipping target' in binlog. DO NOT USE FOR: first-time build slowness (use build-perf-baseline), parallelism issues (use build-parallelism), evaluation-phase slowness (use eval-performance), non-MSBuild build systems.01Item Managementdotnet/skillsPatterns for managing MSBuild item groups: Include/Remove/Update semantics, item metadata, batching with %(Metadata), transforms, per-item filtering, and cross-product batching pitfalls. USE FOR: diagnosing and fixing item group anti-patterns in .csproj files, reviewing item management for correctness, fixing CS2002 duplicate file warnings from SDK globbing, fixing targets that run more times than expected due to cross-product batching, fixing Include vs Update misuse on SDK-globbed items, fixing FileWrites registration for generated file clean support, moving generated files to IntermediateOutputPath. DO NOT USE FOR: target chain architecture (use target-authoring), property patterns (use property-patterns), incrementality (use incremental-build), general anti-patterns (use msbuild-antipatterns), non-MSBuild build systems.01Maui App Lifecycledotnet/skills>-02Maui Collectionviewdotnet/skills>02Maui Data Bindingdotnet/skills>-02Maui Dependency Injectiondotnet/skills>02Maui Safe Areadotnet/skills>-02Maui Shell Navigationdotnet/skills>-02Maui Themingdotnet/skills>-02Microbenchmarkingdotnet/skills>06Migrate Dotnet10 To Dotnet11dotnet/skills>08Migrate Dotnet8 To Dotnet9dotnet/skills>011Migrate Dotnet9 To Dotnet10dotnet/skills>011Migrate Mstest V1v2 To V3dotnet/skills>01Migrate Mstest V3 To V4dotnet/skills>01Migrate Nullable Referencesdotnet/skills>06Migrate Static To Wrapperdotnet/skills>01Migrate Vstest To Mtpdotnet/skills>01Migrate Xunit To Mstestdotnet/skills>02Migrate Xunit To Xunit V3dotnet/skills>01Minimal API File Uploaddotnet/skillsFile upload endpoints in ASP.NET minimal APIs (.NET 8+)01Msbuild Antipatternsdotnet/skillsDetect and fix MSBuild anti-patterns in project and build files. USE WHEN asked to review, audit, lint, clean up, or code-review a .csproj/.vbproj/.fsproj/.props/.targets/.proj (or Directory.Build.props/.targets) file, when asked 'is this project file correct?' or 'what's wrong with my build file?', or when hunting subtle build bugs caused by how a project is authored. Each anti-pattern has a symptom and a concrete BAD→GOOD fix. DO NOT USE FOR: non-MSBuild build systems (npm, Maven, CMake), or migrating a project to SDK-style (use msbuild-modernization).04Msbuild Modernizationdotnet/skillsGuide for modernizing and migrating MSBuild project files to SDK-style format. USE FOR: converting legacy .csproj/.vbproj with verbose XML to SDK-style, migrating packages.config to PackageReference, removing Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs in favor of auto-generation, eliminating explicit <Compile Include> lists via implicit globbing, consolidating shared settings into Directory.Build.props. Indicators of legacy projects: ToolsVersion attribute, <Import Project=\"$(MSBuildToolsPath)\">, .csproj files > 50 lines for simple projects. DO NOT USE FOR: projects already in SDK-style format, non-.NET build systems (npm, Maven, CMake), .NET Framework projects that cannot move to SDK-style.01Mtp Hot Reloaddotnet/skills>01Nuget Trusted Publishingdotnet/skills>03Optimizing Ef Core Queriesdotnet/skillsOptimize and improve the performance of slow Entity Framework Core (EF Core) queries: make them generate less SQL, make fewer database round-trips, and return results faster. Use whenever an EF Core or DbContext query or data-access path is slow or should be made faster — whether or not EF Core owns the database schema. For EF Core, not Dapper or raw ADO.NET.01Plan UI Changedotnet/skills>01Platform Detectiondotnet/skills>-02Property Patternsdotnet/skillsMSBuild property definition patterns: conditional defaults, composition/concatenation, path normalization, trailing-slash handling, TFM detection helpers, and evaluation order. USE FOR: diagnosing and fixing property definition issues and shared-property anti-patterns in .props/.csproj; DefineConstants or NoWarn overwritten instead of appended; unconditional assignments that block project-level overrides; unquoted conditions that fail on empty properties; hardcoded paths that break cross-platform builds; setting overridable defaults; property evaluation order and last-write-wins semantics. DO NOT USE FOR: props vs targets placement (use directory-build-organization), item operations (use item-management), target structure (use target-authoring), general anti-patterns (use msbuild-antipatterns), non-MSBuild build systems.01Resolve Project Referencesdotnet/skillsGuide for interpreting ResolveProjectReferences time in MSBuild performance summaries. Activate when ResolveProjectReferences appears as the most expensive target and developers are trying to optimize it directly. Explains that the reported time includes wait time for dependent project builds and is misleading. Guides users to focus on task self-time instead. Do not activate for general build performance -- use build-perf-diagnostics instead.01Run Testsdotnet/skills>-01Scaffold Dotnet Test Projectdotnet/skills>-01Setup Local SDKdotnet/skills>01Support Prerenderingdotnet/skillsMake interactive Blazor components work correctly with prerendering. USE FOR fixing duplicate data loads, UI flicker during prerender-to-interactive handoff, null references during prerender, persisting state across prerender, disabling prerendering, excluding pages from interactive routing, or detecting whether a component is currently prerendering. DO NOT USE for choosing which render mode to use (see create-blazor-project) or general component authoring (see author-component).01System Text JSON Net11dotnet/skills>01Target Authoringdotnet/skillsCanonical patterns for writing custom MSBuild targets. USE FOR: diagnosing and fixing custom target authoring anti-patterns; broken SDK target chains across files (e.g., Directory.Build.targets silently redefining SDK targets); targets that replace CompileDependsOn instead of extending it with $(CompileDependsOn); query targets returning stale results from Outputs vs Returns misuse; missing Inputs/Outputs causing unnecessary rebuilds; missing FileWrites registration. Covers DependsOnTargets vs BeforeTargets vs AfterTargets, the Build→CoreBuild three-level pattern, and the $(XxxDependsOn) chain-extension pattern. DO NOT USE FOR: incremental build tuning (use incremental-build), parallelization (use build-parallelism), general anti-patterns (use msbuild-antipatterns), non-MSBuild build systems.01Technology Selectiondotnet/skillsGuides technology selection and implementation of AI and ML features in .NET 8+ applications using ML.NET, Microsoft.Extensions.AI (MEAI), Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF), GitHub Copilot SDK, ONNX Runtime, and OllamaSharp. Covers the full spectrum from classic ML through modern LLM orchestration to local inference. Use when adding classification, regression, clustering, anomaly detection, recommendation, LLM integration (text generation, summarization, reasoning), RAG pipelines with vector search, agentic workflows with tool calling, Copilot extensions, or custom model inference via ONNX Runtime to a .NET project. DO NOT USE FOR projects targeting .NET Framework (requires .NET 8+), the task is pure data engineering or ETL with no ML/AI component, or the project needs a custom deep learning training loop (use Python with PyTorch/TensorFlow, then export to ONNX for .NET inference).08Template Authoringdotnet/skills>01Template Comparisondotnet/skills>01Template Discoverydotnet/skills>01Template Instantiationdotnet/skills>01Template Smart Defaultsdotnet/skills>01Template Validationdotnet/skills>01Test Analysis Extensionsdotnet/skills>-012Test Anti Patternsdotnet/skills>01Test Gap Analysisdotnet/skills>-02Test Smell Detectiondotnet/skills>02Test Taggingdotnet/skills>01
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