A collection of 168 posts
I’ve never been particularly good at math. Sometimes, the numbers get challenging to keep straight, especially when moving in orders of magnitude from one value to another. But, when working with large numbers, I typically codify conversion code to help...
Part of being in the #dotnet community is trying out other people’s ideas. One way people share those ideas is through project templates. Project templates allow you to set up a solution the author intended quickly. It also helps you...
Whether you love them or hate them, a big part of social media is the hive of bots ready to help, entertain, and inform. I love them as they typically offer a wide variety of choices, and they allow you...
While we’re all benefiting from the push towards “One .NET”, the reality is that there will always be differences in operating systems. Windows, macOS, and Linux are, in fact, different operating systems and have their advantages and disadvantages. The difference...
There’s some discussion around the ASP.NET Core repository on the best way to give Minimal API users access to validation as a programmatic concept inside of ASP.NET Core. It’s a lot of positive feedback with some good ideas, so I...
While never sold as an outright replacement for ASP.NET Core MVC, ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs are bound to have developers asking, “Which one should I use?” The answer depends on your use case, but in reality, you can use all...
We all have a few trusty packages we install right away when starting a new project, installed reflexively as a side effect of hard-fought knowledge from coding in the real world. But, while there’s a lot of collective experience on...
Recently, a follower on Twitter asked how they could store “dynamic” user data using Entity Framework Core. Dynamic in the sense that you may not know what the key/value pairs of data will be but they’re still important to store,...
Changes in the C# language allow us to write more concise code than ever before, and it’s fun to see what solutions developers write. In this short but fun post, I’ll be writing a method that takes in an int...
C# 9 introduced us to records, a new way to define data structures with increased readability and usability in specific scenarios. While they may look like structs or classes, they offer an opportunity to reduce boilerplate code and potentially allow...
