I am working on the Windows Desktop Application. Of Course, Now is 2025. I am building a new Windows application, and I think that WinUI is one of the best options I can think of.
However, WinUI is a kind of platform-independent, if you still need to access the local function such as the File Dialog, You still use to have Interpo.
var picker = new FileOpenPicker();
picker.FileTypeFilter.Add(".json");
picker.SuggestedStartLocation = PickerLocationId.DocumentsLibrary;

var hwnd = WinRT.Interop.WindowNative.GetWindowHandle(this);
WinRT.Interop.InitializeWithWindow.Initialize(picker, hwnd);
Here is the example

Last Month, I went to the Brisbane.net user group. The topic is PostgreSQL.PostgreSQL? How can it be related to .Net? You may think that that is more related to Linux. That is not. Azure got Postsqesql implementation, which is customized for Azure. Thus, that is performance quite good.
Moreover, that is more than half the price of the MS SQL server option. Lastly, EF core is fully supported by Postgresql. They are very suitable for a small-scale project. I will explore it for my membership management system.

Due to the discontinuation of Google Podcasts, I am writing my own Podcast App for Android. I chose C# MAUI because I am a C# Developer, and I have used Xamarin (become a part of MAUI now) for years.
My first problem is the Podcast App; I need to load the RSS (XML) via HTTP. That is so easy. Same as other C# programs. Also, you can use to load any JSON information in different use case

Code

I need to do the machine learning. Therefore, I need to use Nvidia RTX card. Moreover, if you have something good, that is 14 th i9, and DDR5 64 to 128GB RAM. Because the CPU and graphical card, that is required a good cooling system. I need to Good Graphical Card, CPU and RAM. That required about AUD $5000. That is not easy..... I am thinking ASUS ROG NUC, that may be a better solution with lower price

For using the PieChart, that is very easy, you just need to bind the series collection

Then I just need to get the data from my repo:

            var categories = new ObservableCollection(_database.BudgetCategories.GetAllCategories());

            SeriesCollection = new SeriesCollection();
            foreach (var category in categories)
            {
                var budgetItems = new ObservableCollection(_database.BudgetItems.GetItemByCategory(category));
                double amount = 0;
                foreach (var item in budgetItems)
                {
                    amount += (double) item.Amount;
                }
                var pieSeries = new PieSeries
                {
                    Title = category.Name,
                    Values = new ChartValues { new ObservableValue(amount) },
                    DataLabels = true
                };
                SeriesCollection.Add(pieSeries);
            }
         
        }