As the .NET Core community matures, we continue to get more options for the applications we build. This post describes how configuration works in a .NET Core application, some of the best options I’ve found, and how to configure each...
C# is a sophisticated and elegant language with many features. It can take an entire career to master, but sometimes it is the small things that can trip up .NET developers. I do code reviews within our team and see...
I’ve spent the better part of the week diagnosing a memory leak in a Windows Azure App Service. You may find this post helpful if you find yourself in the same situation I was in. I’ll walk through what a...
Working with Elasticsearch feels like sitting in the cockpit of a rocket ship: empowering and terrifying all at the same time. I’ve been learning a lot about the product, and the documentation has been the best resource on my educational...
I was paying a bill today and after submitting the form, I saw a successful confirmation page. There on the confirmation page was a message displayed in retina-burning red.
It’s not very often, but there are times when a stored procedure just works a little better than LINQ. Complexity for developers can be decreased while performance can be dramatically increased for users. In those very rare cases, it may...
When building a line of business application, requests for saving dynamic key/value pairs are inevitable. The “best” way to store dynamic data is in a Dictionary, the mother of all flexible data structures. This post will show you the minimum...
I’ve taken for granted how often I need to call a web API from my C# applications. If you’ve ever had to make a web request in your .NET application, then I’m sure you’ve seen the following frustrating exception message...
