A collection of 243 posts
In .NET, launch settings (launchSettings.json) allow us to share run commands across all development environments, regardless of IDE and editor choices. For the most part, launch commands are cross-platform capable, so they aren’t limited to any operating system, which is...
C# is a statically typed language, and one of the greatest derived strengths is our ability to ask questions around our code. Whether you love it or hate it, reflection is a critical part of the .NET stack, and when...
Love it or hate it, The minimal templates in .NET 6 are here to stay. However, while some applaud minimal templates for their simplicity and clarity, some in the community find the change potentially confusing. I can see both sides...
The modern era of programming has become primarily defined by context-based programming models. What do I mean by “ context-based” programming models? Most applications we write will operate in an environment that we cannot fully recreate in our local development...
So you’ve decided you needed to use inheritance within your object model but are struggling to serialize all the data present on the instances of the types. In a previous post, I wrote about serializing an interface instances using a...
As technology evolves and we progress as a community, I notice that older blog posts erode in their helpfulness. One of the topics I find myself constantly having to relearn, especially as an OSS author, is the ability to start...
As a developer advocate, part of my job as a developer advocate is to inspire others to work with .NET and JetBrains ReSharper and JetBrains Rider. Thus, to inspire others, I need to be inspired. So this search for creative...
Modern development has an abundance of processing power, network bandwidth, and disk space. Given our current fortunes, we should spend these resources like there’s no tomorrow, right? Well, no! We should be mindful of our resource utilization and how it...
Sometimes, in my research, I come across helpful and great tips to keep in mind but likely wouldn’t be enough to fill a whole post. Rather than let those discoveries fade into the ether, I thought I’d compile them into...
JSON is arguably one of the most used data formats on the planet, likely due to its flexibility and human readability. We can also recognize that its two greatest strengths can also be the format’s weakness. Being human-readable gives developers...
