A collection of 197 posts
The ASP.NET testing story has gotten easier with each new iteration, emphasizing dependency injection and inversion of control (IoC) containers contributing much of the plumbing for your web applications. Along with more accessible configuration options, we also see more opportunities...
.NET’s greatest strength is its long history of supporting developers through each industry paradigm shift, but just because there’s a new way of doing things doesn’t mean the established method goes away. It’s also a source of confusion and frustration...
The efforts to containerize all the things are underway, with many tech vendors pushing remote development as a viable development option. So in the future, some percentage of your development stack will be remote-capable, which means more command-line familiarity is...
The C# language has turned on the turbo boosters regarding language features, with folks either loving or hating the additions. It’s fair to have an opinion, but today I’d like to show you one of my favorite new features coming...
In .NET, launch settings (launchSettings.json) allow us to share run commands across all development environments, regardless of IDE and editor choices. For the most part, launch commands are cross-platform capable, so they aren’t limited to any operating system, which is...
C# is a statically typed language, and one of the greatest derived strengths is our ability to ask questions around our code. Whether you love it or hate it, reflection is a critical part of the .NET stack, and when...
Love it or hate it, The minimal templates in .NET 6 are here to stay. However, while some applaud minimal templates for their simplicity and clarity, some in the community find the change potentially confusing. I can see both sides...
The modern era of programming has become primarily defined by context-based programming models. What do I mean by “ context-based” programming models? Most applications we write will operate in an environment that we cannot fully recreate in our local development...
So you’ve decided you needed to use inheritance within your object model but are struggling to serialize all the data present on the instances of the types. In a previous post, I wrote about serializing an interface instances using a...
As technology evolves and we progress as a community, I notice that older blog posts erode in their helpfulness. One of the topics I find myself constantly having to relearn, especially as an OSS author, is the ability to start...
