A collection of 231 posts
When we think about programming, we usually think about well-intentioned systematic instructions executing when and how we intended. In a digital world of One’s and Zero’s, the idea of randomness is madness. In the real world, randomness is a necessary...
With ASP.NET Core, developers have several new tools to build their web applications. One feature that I am incredibly excited about is request features.
Data formats are an essential part of any programming toolbox. C# developers must understand how to take plain-old-C#-objects (POCOs) and convert them into standard data formats. The .NET community commonly refers to the conversion of data objects as serialization.
As a web developer, it’s important to remind ourselves that we push our work onto the internet for the world to see. Our development team utilizes Windows Azure for many environments, and all those environments need to be publicly accessible....
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...
It can take an entire career to master C#, but sometimes it is the small things that can trip up .NET developers. I do code reviews within our team and see the == operator often, and I also see the...
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...
