A collection of 243 posts
The evolution of the C# language has introduced us to many new features and probably made a lot of folks re-evaluate how they write their apps. In the latest versions of .NET, nothing has been marked such a stylistic shift...
There are times on this blog when I write posts for the reader’s benefit and times when I need to memorialize my own pain and suffering to find a solution to a seemingly simple issue. This post is the latter....
Nullability provides developers with development-time warnings that can help reduce dereferencing issues. These errors can be costly, but with the power of a few additional checks in code, developers can easily avoid them, putting them in control of their code’s...
State machines are so integral to software development that they often seem invisible to developers. They are used so frequently yet abstracted away through APIs and syntax that many developers don’t directly deal with them. However, we’d like to.
I’ve been on a Rust learning journey lately, and it’s had me thinking about how I can consume Rust libraries from existing .NET applications. The .NET team has done much work regarding interoperability during the .NET 6 to .NET 8...
I recently hosted a live stream with badass-as-a-service Chris Klug, titled “Stop using Entity Framework Core as a DTO Provider!”. It’s worth a watch, and it gave me, a long-time Entity Framework user, a lot to think about and reevaluate...
Entity Framework Core 8 packs a punch, aiming for the undisputed title of “most powerful Object-Relational Mapper (ORM)” in the .NET space. Many folks in our community are typically divided about using ORMs, with many preferring Micro-ORMs. A Micro-ORM has...
With the release of .NET 8, we also see the release of Entity Framework Core 8 and a bounty of new features. One of my favorite new features is Complex Types. When data modeling with Entity Framework Core, we may...
A general fog of “I hate JavaScript” hovers over the .NET development shops worldwide. While it’s understandable that JavaScript can sometimes be annoying, it has grown significantly recently. One of the areas more ASP.NET Core developers should take note of...
I was scrolling the Mastodon timeline when I noticed a fellow .NET developer, Bill Seipel, having an unexpected experience with List.ForEach and async/await. At first glance, I thought he was modifying the collection he was iterating over, but then I...
