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DocumentDb runs on ten-odd backends, but picking one used to be a line of C# inside your service. The Aspire integration moves that decision into the AppHost — the consuming code becomes one provider-agnostic line with health checks and OpenTelemetry attached, the admin UI becomes a resource, and an entire Orleans silo points at the same store.
Membership, grain storage, reminders, grain directory and streams are five separate provider contracts. Shiny.DocumentDb.Orleans implements all five on one IDocumentStore — one connection string, grain state you can query without waking a grain, and a stream backlog you can actually open and look at.
Thirteen major versions in, there's a lot of DocumentDb that shipped in a bullet list and never got explained. A store that diffs documents for you, a read path that never deserializes, and an extensibility surface that soft delete is entirely built out of.
v13 puts AES-256-GCM field encryption in the core package, adds a transactional outbox that commits with the write that caused it, and gives a document type a front door — REST + Server-Sent Events, and an MCP server. Plus Orleans streams on the database you already have, and admin tools that read an encrypted store without a key.
Ten new packages: a dependency-light, AOT/trim-clean HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 server that runs anywhere .NET runs — including inside a .NET MAUI app on iOS and Android. Routing, middleware, DI scopes, WebSockets, SSE, TLS with managed self-signed certs, an OpenAPI document built with zero reflection, source-generated typed endpoints, XML/MessagePack/protobuf without reflection, gRPC and gRPC-Web, a WebDAV mount, mediator handlers and DocumentDb documents as endpoints, tunnelling so a phone is reachable from the internet, and an MCP server you can point Claude at.
A shower thought about writing SwiftUI from C# turned into a Kotlin shim for Jetpack Compose, and then into the realization that the shim was never the point. One C# view tree, a diff engine, and a patch protocol — now rendering as real SwiftUI, real Compose, real GTK4, real WinUI, real DOM, a from-scratch SkiaSharp toolkit that paints the whole thing itself, and — as of today — characters in a terminal, images and all. Plus 28 real controls built on it, what writing your own looks like on each backend, and an honest accounting of how far the Skia renderers still have to go. Think .NET Comet, but without the MAUI underneath it.
v12 ships an admin UI for your document stores, schema-free JSON collections with no CLR type at all, interceptors that can replace a write, soft delete in the box, a fully trim/AOT-clean package set, and a provider consolidation that deleted 4,300 lines and found four real bugs on its way out.
A background-capable, bidirectional record-sync engine for .NET apps. It doesn't reinvent background execution — it stands on the same playbook as Shiny Jobs and Shiny.Net.Http, moving records where transfers move files and riding the Jobs scheduler for periodic pulls.
Shiny.DocumentDb.Orleans puts the whole Orleans persistence stack — grain storage, reminders, clustering, and grain directory — on one backend-agnostic IDocumentStore. The headline win: query grain state directly, without activating a single grain.
v6 adds cross-provider vector / ANN search, EF-style global query filters, composite JSON indexes, real connection pooling on server SQL, and per-query change monitoring — without changing the schema-free, AOT-safe shape of the API.
Shiny.AiConversation wraps chat clients, speech recognition, text-to-speech, audio playback, message persistence, and state management into a single IAiConversationService interface for .NET.
Shiny Controls v1.0 ships with IFeedbackService — a single injectable service that every interactive control calls. Implement it once for haptic, TTS, sound effects, analytics, or any combination.
