A collection of 242 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.”
I recently saw that .NET 10 adds a numeric comparer, allowing you to sort string elements that may contain numeric values at the end of a string. Think movie sequels or number versions of an operating system. To my surprise,...
The hallmark of every great project is equally great documentation, but it can be increasingly difficult for developers to keep both in sync. Luckily, I’ve been experimenting again with a combination of Starlight and MarkdownSnippets to make maintaining code samples...
Let me start by saying that I love the combination of Htmx and ASP.NET Core, and it is a pairing that any .NET developer should consider, whether maintaining an existing application or building a new one. It’s very cool. I...
Folks working with EF Core are likely very fond of the library’s migration features, one of the most vital selling points for adopting an ORM. If you’re building a .NET solution, your database schema will evolve, and adding, removing, and...
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...
If you’ve ever worked with reflection in .NET, you’re likely familiar with Activator. In .NET 6, ActivatorUtilities was introduced to make it easier to create classes with dependencies. Constructor dependency injection is common in the .NET space, and you’re likely...
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...
