A collection of 7 posts
As a developer, I want to build the best software my users can have. More often than not, a great search experience is at the forefront of that user experience. In this post, I’ll show you how to build a...
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...
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...
