C# 9 Covariant Return Types

C# 9 Covariant Return Types

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...

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Common Use Cases For .NET Reflection

Common Use Cases For .NET Reflection

.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...

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Understand The .NET 5 Runtime Environment

Understand The .NET 5 Runtime Environment

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...

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Consuming SOAP APIs In .NET Core

Consuming SOAP APIs In .NET Core

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?...

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Module Initializers In C# 9

Module Initializers In C# 9

.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...

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Looking At System.IO.Path

Looking At System.IO.Path

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...

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