Chet Husk: .NET Tooling - Episode 399

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Chet Husk is a Product Manager on the .NET Tools team at Microsoft, where he leads the .NET SDK, MSBuild, Template Engine, and Install Scripts teams -- shaping how millions of .NET developers build, publish, and containerize their applications. Before joining Microsoft in 2021, Chet was deeply embedded in the F# open-source community, serving on the F# Software Foundation Board and co-maintaining Ionide, the popular F# extension for VS Code. At Microsoft, he drove the built-in container publishing support that lets developers create container images with just "dotnet publish" -- no Dockerfile required -- and recently shipped SLNX, the new XML-based solution file format for the .NET CLI. He is also exploring the intersection of AI and build tooling with an open-source MCP server that lets AI assistants analyze MSBuild binary logs.

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LinkedIn
.NET Blog

Recent projects / posts Blog:

"Introducing support for SLNX, a new, simpler solution file format in the .NET CLI" (Mar 2025, .NET Blog) 
mcp-binlog-tool: MCP server for AI-assisted MSBuild binary log analysis 
Blog: "Announcing built-in container support for the .NET SDK" (.NET Blog)
.NET Conf 2023 talk: ".NET Containers advancements in .NET 8" 
.NET Conf 2022 Keynote presenter 

SLNGEN .NET Tool /dotnet/skills
GitHub repo structed nuget package - devlooped

EBNF Grammar (Extended Backus–Naur Form)
https://msbuildlog.com/
https://github.com/devlooped/StructId

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