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Let’s face it, regular expressions are powerful and can be an immense pain in the butt to write. While crafting a regular expression to perform any input recognition is possible, it becomes exceedingly difficult when the matching rules require more...
Templating is a common approach to separating logic from presentation, and many options exist within the .NET ecosystem. The most popular is the Razor engine used by ASP.NET Core, but it currently has some dependencies that make it difficult to...
As Zoolander villain Mugato might say if he were a .NET developer, “Ahead of Time (AOT) compilation is so hot right now.” AOT is one of the focuses of the .NET 8 release, with a lot of attention given to...
Lua is a scripting language most famously known for powering Blizzard’s World of Warcraft but was designed to be a general-purpose means of building robust, efficient, and lightweight solutions. Lua was created in 1993 (30 years ago!) and has since...
When working with “expensive” resources, it is essential to call the Dispose method to tell .NET’s garbage collector that it’s time to clean up the instance and all its associated baggage. Disposing of instances is most important when dealing with...
With .NET 8 on the horizon, Minimal APIs continues to grow its offerings, slowly providing a similar feature set to the frameworks before, including ASP.NET Core MVC and Razor Pages. I was surprised when someone in the community (👋 Hi...
While code is inarguably the bedrock of any software application, it’s not the only thing necessary to deliver a user experience. Whether you’re building a website, desktop application, or mobile app, you’ll likely need non-code assets. These assets include images,...
Taking a .NET collection and displaying the items in a human-readable format is something we all ultimately have to tackle in our applications. While we could spit out values uniformly separated by a character, that’s a very uncivilized approach. I’ll...
In a perfect world, you’d have to write zero JsonConverter classes, as all JSON data would serialize and deserialize as expected. Unfortunately, we live in a world where folks make bespoke formatting decisions that can boggle the mind. For folks...
One of the more fun aspects of working with any programming language is writing code you probably shouldn’t. Why write something clever when doing the unexpected can help give you a new appreciation of what’s possible? As a bonus, now...
