Alvin Ashcraft

@alvinashcraft.com

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Sr. Content Developer at Microsoft on the Microsoft Foundry docs; Writer of WinUI and .NET Concurrency books for Packt; Philadelphia area; Mets fan; TechBash organizer. alvinashcraft.com

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KRAMER: Anyway, it's been two years. Isn't there like a statue of limitations on that? JERRY: Statute KRAMER: What? JERRY: Statute of limitations. It's not a statue. KRAMER: No. It's a statue. JERRY: Fine, it's a sculpture of limitations.
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A session card for Alvin Ashcraft's .NET MAUI session at LIVE! 360 in Orlando Nov 16-21.
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A screenshot of Warp taking a natural language command to view recent git history and creating a command line git log request to show the last 10 commits. Warp then suggests another command to get details on one of the commits.
A picture of Alvin Ashcraft in a 7 Line Army jersey in the crowd at a very important Mets playoff game.
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Scott Hunter and Maddy Montaquila on stage at NDC London.
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Selfie taken before the Mets clinched the NLDS.
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The Vader 3L Interchange Jacket by Columbia.
Jesse Winker trotting home as he walks it off against the Orioles in August.
CodeMash 2025 banner for Alvin Ashcraft's session on choosing a Windows native UI framework.
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A picture of Alvin Ashcraft climbing the Strasbourg cathedral's spiral staircase.
Photo from the BEAT concert in Glenside, PA
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