A collection of 27 posts
Every couple of years, I tend to write the same variation of an enum helper that reads metadata from an enumeration using reflection. Almost any .NET developer with a few years of experience has done the same. The implementation uses...
I was recently looking at the Duende Software codebase, and I kept seeing the same suggestion offered by the IDE tooling whenever I encountered a ConcurrentDictionary: “Closure can be eliminated: method has overload to avoid closure creation.”
When it comes to programming, correctness is the name of the game. Every developer aims to understand, model, and limit potential outliers when executing code because those unknown variables can lead to exceptions and critical failures. There are many techniques...
Building dynamic JavaScript experiences has come a long in the 20 years since I first started software development, but updating the document object model (DOM) can still be a real pain in the butt. That’s why we’ve seen single-page application...
JavaScript, for better or worse, has a much smaller standard library than what .NET developers are used to with the base class library (BCL). The JavaScript community has made many attempts to build a standard library, and I’m sure some...
The other day, I played around with the Fibonacci sequence and overflowed my int variables in surprisingly low iterations. Did you know you’ll overflow an integer in **48 ** iterations? Don’t believe me? Let’s take a look at the result...
The evolution of the C# language has introduced us to many new features and probably made a lot of folks re-evaluate how they write their apps. In the latest versions of .NET, nothing has been marked such a stylistic shift...
Nullability provides developers with development-time warnings that can help reduce dereferencing issues. These errors can be costly, but with the power of a few additional checks in code, developers can easily avoid them, putting them in control of their code’s...
When working in .NET, there’s a lot of room for reorganizing a codebase, but sometimes we can organize ourselves into a mess of a problem. Recently, when working on an ASP.NET Core Minimal API demo, I seemingly broke an endpoint’s...
I’ve been on a Rust learning journey lately, and it’s had me thinking about how I can consume Rust libraries from existing .NET applications. The .NET team has done much work regarding interoperability during the .NET 6 to .NET 8...
