A collection of 210 posts
.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...
We take many environmental factors for granted when it comes to running our .NET applications. Information about the operating system may seem insignificant for folks deploying to rigorously maintained target environments. Still, for folks who publish desktop client software, the...
Hello there, fellow enterprise developer. Before we get to the solution to our problem, let’s take a minute to close our eyes and reflect on our past decisions that led us to this moment. What could we have done differently?...
Let’s say we’re building a brand new HTTP API that supports webhooks, and we want the best for our ASP.NET consumers. We should document elements like endpoints, payloads, authentication, and responses our API expects from consumers. Documentation can be overwhelming...
As long as there has been software, there have been bugs. Exceptions are a hierarchy of classes designed to help developers capture, inspect, and handle errors. For C# developers and many other languages, the way we work with exceptions is...
.NET 5 is shaping up to be an excellent release for .NET folks, and C# developers are fortunate to get more features to help solve day to day programming problems and niche optimizations. One of the features that caught my...
As a web developer, I rarely need to deal with physical files on disk. It’s a request/response kind of life while communicating with a database engine. When working on this blog, I find myself doing more file manipulation, as I’m...
Quick Response (QR) codes are all around us, helping us quickly retrieve information on our mobile devices. QR codes are high-density barcodes that encode all kinds of information: numbers, alphanumeric, byte/binary, and even script languages like Kanji.
In this post, we’ll be looking at FormattableStringFactory, a factory type used by .NET’s compilers to create instances of FormattableString. We can find the FormattableStringFactory class under the System.Runtime.CompilerServices namespace.
As a JetBrains Developer Advocate, I’ve become more exposed to other languages and technology stacks. Exposure is a good thing, as it allows me to see what the .NET ecosystem does well, and notice the parts where it could improve....
