A collection of 99 posts
Ah, strings, the cause of and solution to all our programming problems. As developers, we’re always balancing our codebase’s readability with the efficient use of string literals. Let’s see how we can work with SQL, a database query language, in...
I was working with the Spotify API and reading through the authorization documentation. Like most APIs, we need to securely access the service, authorized as the client application or on behalf of a user. We’ll need to deal with secret...
The other day I was playing a Castlevania on my RetroPie. In between the doses of pure childhood nostalgia, I found myself scrolling through the Raspberry Pi menus to find an open-source (OSS) attribution display menu. In front of me...
In previous non-core versions of Entity Framework (EF), it was possible to intercept calls to and from the database, but it’s wasn’t a feature many would classify under “first-class support”. Thankfully the community stepped in at the time to fill...
Presentation is an essential part of the language, let alone a software application. How we utilize script can make the difference between an enjoyable user experience or an incomprehensible mess. As developers, we likely spend more time formatting strings than...
I’ve been on a spiritual search for a cross-platform solution that allows developers to play and capture audio using .NET 5. It’s a journey filled with many highs and lows, mostly cursing at my screen and ruing the day I...
I recently saw a tweet from Chris Heilmann, Principal Program Manager for Browser Tools at Microsoft. In this tweet, he gave a quick tip about parsing HTML content using the built-in DOMParser JavaScript class rather than resorting to RegEx, and...
I’m sitting here reading through the “What’s New in C#9” blog post, and one of the listed additions to the language is Covariant return types. It sounds like an exciting feature, but what does that mean for my day-to-day development...
🎄 Part of the C# Advent Calendar event!🎅🤶
.NET developers are spoiled when it comes to runtime features, type reflection being at the top of the list of “features we didn’t know we needed”. Reflection enables us to obtain information about types defined within our application and all...
