Learn how to use BenchmarkDotNet to effectively create and run benchmarks on your C# code. Dig into where you have opportunities to optimize your C# code!

.NET

benchmark

performance

Reflection in C#: 4 Code Simple But Powerful Code Examples

1 Mar 2024 by Dev Leader

In this article, I’ll provide you with 4 simple code examples illustrating how reflection works in C#.

.NET

Dev

reflection

Google Sheets in C# – How to Build Your Own Levels.fyi!

17 Feb 2024 by Dev Leader

Access Google Sheets via C#; Start simple, optimize later!

Configure .NET Apps without JSON or XML

17 Feb 2024 by Brows App

XML and JSON have long been the configuration formats of choice in the .NET ecosystem. For something entirely different, continue reading.

.NET

Command Pattern in C# – What You Need to Implement It

15 Feb 2024 by Dev Leader

Learn what the Command Pattern in C# is and the design principles it follows. Understand the pros and cons!

.NET

patterns

The Memento Pattern in C# – How to Achieve Effortless State Restoration

15 Feb 2024 by Dev Leader

Origin and principles of Memento Pattern in C, and different components & steps to implementation!

.NET

Dev

design-patterns

How To Implement The Pipeline Design Pattern in C#

15 Feb 2024 by Dev Leader

Learn about the pipeline design pattern in C#, discover how to create and chain pipeline stages and get code examples, tips, and use cases for this design pattern

.NET

pipeline

design-patterns

CQRS Pattern in C# and Clean Architecture – A Simplified Beginner’s Guide

15 Feb 2024 by Dev Leader

CQRS pattern in C#, clean architecture for better software development, code examples, best practices

.NET

CQRS

architecture

Unit of Work Pattern in C# for Clean Architecture: What You Need To Know

15 Feb 2024 by Dev Leader

Integrate Unit of Work Pattern in C# with Clean Architecture for efficient programming, benefits and C# code examples

.NET

design-patterns

architecture

C# Using Var: To Var or Not To Var?

12 Dec 2023 by DavesApps

The article discusses the debate over using C#'s var keyword versus explicit typed variables, highlighting potential issues with overuse of 'var' that can lead to code misunderstandings, readability challenges, and bugs.

.NET

Generate ASCII Art – A Simple How To in C#

21 Oct 2023 by Dev Leader

Change a picture into ASCII art using your own C# program

.NET

Dev

ASCII

Building OpenAI Chat Application with Angular, ASP.NET API, and Azure

13 Oct 2023 by DotNetLead.com

How to build an OpenAI chat application using Angular, ASP.NET API, and Azure

Async Lazy In C# – With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

14 Aug 2023 by Dev Leader

In this blog post, we’ll explore the concept of async lazy initialization in C#

.NET

.ASP.NET-Core

asynchronous

“csc.exe – Application Error” when Shutting Windows with a Running .NET Application

7 May 2023 by ToughDev

Fix for “csc.exe – Application Error”

Allowing Only Numeric Input in a TextBox

7 May 2023 by ToughDev

How to allow only numeric input in TextBox

Programming the Tektronix TDS 340 100MHz digital storage oscilloscope

7 May 2023 by ToughDev

In my previous article I provided some information on the Tektronix TDS 340 100 MHz digital storage oscilloscope and instructions

Façade Pattern: A Beginner’s How-To for Simplified Code

31 Mar 2023 by Dev Leader

A beginner's guide to Façade pattern

Iterator Benchmarks that Shocked with Unexpected Results

17 Mar 2023 by Dev Leader

This article is follow up content to previous articles I've written about iterators and collections, but the benchmark results were NOT what I expected!

Tasks, BackgroundWorkers, and Threads – Simple Comparisons for Concurrency

22 Jan 2023 by Dev Leader

How Tasks, Threads, and BackgroundWorkers operate at high level

.NET

BackgroundWorker

Set Up Properties of EmailMessage – Updated

21 Feb 2022 by Illya Reznykov

How to update EmailMessage properties that don't have public setters

Upgrading from .NET Core 2.1 to .NET 6.0

29 Dec 2021 by Jason Sultana

I upgraded an old project from .NET Core 2.1 to .NET 6. Here's what broke.

.NET-Core2.1

.NET6

.NET

The C# 9 init-only Setters

15 Aug 2021 by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

A discussion of "init" keyword introduced in C# 9

.NET

reference

reflection

GraphQL for .NET Developers

21 Jul 2021 by Jeremy Likness

In this blog post I look at what GraphQL is, share benefits and challenges, review the current .NET ecosystem, and walk you through some hands-on examples.

Server.Transfer VS Response.Redirect – Simplified

16 Jun 2021 by Shivprasad koirala

This blog will discuss the difference between server.transfer and response.redirect.

.NET

ATL

ASP.NET

What Code Editor to Use for .NET Core on MacOS?

10 May 2021 by Jason Sultana

A short discussion of some different options available for developing .net core applications on Mac OS

Building and Deploying (CI/CD) Angular Applications using GitHub and Azure

8 May 2021 by DotNetLead.com

How to build and deploy Angular application using GitHub and Azure

Exploring Data Cubes on NSimpleOlap (Alpha)

5 May 2021 by Carlos Conceição

Current features of NSimpleOlap library

Presenting NSimpleOlap (Alpha & Unstable)

22 Apr 2021 by Carlos Conceição

NSimpleOlap is embeddable .Net OLAP library for use in console, desktop, or other types of applications.

.NET

Dev

OLAP

Cake Frosting: More Maintainable C# DevOps

18 Feb 2021 by Lee P Richardson

Cake V1.0 is a more robust technique for writing DevOps in a language the whole team can understand.

.NET-Core

.NET

2020: The Year of Data

27 Dec 2020 by Jeremy Likness

In this post, I will continue the tradition which I started in a 2015 blog post of celebrating the year and looking back at highlights.

ScoopBox

26 Nov 2020 by H. Hasanov

ScoopBox is a C# library that automates the configuration file building and generates a script which inside contains commands to execute using PowerShell.

Moq and out Parameter

18 Nov 2020 by Illya Reznykov

How to mock & test methods with out parameters

Windows Authentication with Angular and .NET Core Web API

8 Nov 2020 by DotNetLead.com

This article shows you how to add Windows Authentication to Angular and .NET Core Web API projects.

Angular and .NET Core Web API Starter Application

2 Nov 2020 by DotNetLead.com

Angular/.NET Core Web API application that can be used as the starting point for building your applications.

.NET Libraries and the Art of Backward Compatibility – Part 1

26 Oct 2020 by Matteo Prosperi

How to plan changes that go into the next version of your library in order to safeguard the experience of your existing users

.NET

application

Tinkering with Client-side Blazor and the AWS SDK for .NET

26 Oct 2020 by Matteo Prosperi

Being an engineer on the AWS SDK for .NET team, I tasked myself with figuring out how to use our libraries under Blazor in the browser.

.NET Libraries and the Art of Backward Compatibility – Part 2

26 Oct 2020 by Matteo Prosperi

This is the second post in the .NET libraries and the art of backward compatibility series.

.NET

compatibility

extension

Template-based Code Generation with Razor and Roslyn

26 Oct 2020 by Matteo Prosperi

In this blog post, I complete my “template-based card image generator” project.

XML

.NET

Creating Your Own .NET DynamicObject. Why, When and How

26 Oct 2020 by Matteo Prosperi

How, why, when and how to create your own DynamicObject in .NET

XML

.NET

.NET DateTime, A Tale About Best Practices and Time Travel

26 Oct 2020 by Matteo Prosperi

In this article, we investigate how DateTime issues are avoided.

Java

.NET

WPF

.NET Libraries and the Art of Backward Compatibility – Part 3

26 Oct 2020 by Matteo Prosperi

This is the third post in the .NET libraries and the art of backward compatibility series.

Run EF Core Queries on SQL Server From Blazor WebAssembly

21 Sep 2020 by Jeremy Likness

What if I could write a LINQ query on a client the same way I would on a server, and execute it remotely with minimal configuration, setup, ritual and ceremony?

“vshost32.exe has stopped working”

4 Sep 2020 by Sandeep Mewara

This is another one of the common errors developers get and ask about: vshost32.exe has stopped working.

How to Create API in .NET Core

27 Aug 2020 by Ricardo_Torres_Torres

Learn to create an API in .NET Core

A Walkthrough C# Attributes

23 Aug 2020 by Jin Vincent Necesario

In this article, we'll explore the world of C# attributes.

Programmatically make(fake ;)) HTTP Requests using WebRequest, WebResponse and WebClient

31 Jul 2020 by Chinmoy Mohanty

How to programmatically make(fake ;)) HTTP Requests

.NET

Look Behind the IQueryable Curtain

21 Jul 2020 by Jeremy Likness

Learn how to parse complex expression trees, and even modify them to alter IQueryable results.

Dynamically Build LINQ Expressions

3 Jun 2020 by Jeremy Likness

A primer on using LINQ to wring strongly typed queries directly in code

FileSystem Syncher – Part 3

22 May 2020 by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

FileSystem Syncher

.NET

Windows

LINQ

Deep Data Dive with Kusto for Azure Data Explorer and Log Analytics

12 Apr 2020 by Jeremy Likness

Some ah-hah moments about Kusto

C# SQL Injection Detection – Especially for Legacy .NET Code

7 Mar 2020 by Rob Kraft

The benefit of this approach is that you can then regularly scan your entire code base for the use of .ExecuteReader and .ExecuteNonQuery knowing that there should be no cases of those methods, other than the exception cases you expect.

Building Predictive Maintenance Model Using ML.NET

1 Mar 2020 by Bahrudin Hrnjica

Notebook completely implemented on .NET platform using C# Jupyter Notebook and Daany

.NET Core/Standard Auto Incrementing Versioning

23 Feb 2020 by Sacha Barber

How to get nice auto incrementing assembly versions inside your .NET Core/Standard projects

.NET-Core

.NET-Standard

.NET

Raw Websockets Minigame with Angular and ASP.net Core

18 Feb 2020 by SleepyCrat

Create a small "minigame" using asp .net core 3.0, Angular, and websockets implemented using vanilla javascript.

Mouse automation with AutoItX

9 Feb 2020 by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

Hello and welcome, In this post, we are going to talk about how we can automate part of the windows desktop environment using AutoItX. What is AutoItX? Before we can talk about AutoItX first we need to talk a little bit about AutoIt.

.NET

Windows

Visual-Studio

Setting up Prometheus and Grafana Monitoring

9 Feb 2020 by Sacha Barber

In this post I want to talk about how to get started with some very nice monitoring tools, namely Prometheus Grafana

.NET

COM

YAML

Blazor State Management

22 Jan 2020 by Jeremy Likness

Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly (client) don't store state by default, resulting in a subpar user experience. This article tackles solutions to the problem.

Getting Hands On With ASP.NET Core Health Checks

21 Jan 2020 by SleepyCrat

A discussion of how the HealthCheck middleware is used to expose endpoints on your site that run a sequence of pre-written tests and provide you with quick diagnostic information about the health of your application.

When Random Isn't the Right Random

12 Jan 2020 by Rion Williams

Nearly any engineer worth his or her salt will likely agree that consistency is important. . If they don’t, they probably haven’t ever worked on a large legacy application or with a team of any decent size. Everyone being roughly (sans tabs vs. spaces religious views) on the same.

.NET

Paging in MongoDB – How to Actually Avoid Poor Performance ?

2 Jan 2020 by Petru Faurescu

Best way, performance wise, to paginate results in MongoDB

Predictive Maintenance on .NET Platform

5 Dec 2019 by Bahrudin Hrnjica

Predictive maintenance on .NET platform

Stateful Serverless: Long-Running Workflows with Durable Functions

22 Nov 2019 by Jeremy Likness

Stateful serverless: long running workflows with durable functions

Introducing Durable Entities for Serverless State

21 Nov 2019 by Jeremy Likness

Learn how durable entities provide explicit management of state in serverless applications and guarantee operations are safe to execute without concurrency conflicts.

Build Data-Driven Web Apps Blazing Fast with Blazor and OData

21 Nov 2019 by Jeremy Likness

Build data-driven .NET applications with seamless client-server communication using fluent C# LINQ over OData (like GraphQL but without the JSON).

Custom Terminals and User Interface (UI) in Windows Terminal

20 Nov 2019 by Jeremy Likness

How to customize the new Windows Terminal for Windows 10 for custom font, look and feel, as well as setup terminals for git-bash, Node.js, PowerShell, and Azure Cloud Shell.

C# Jupyter Notebook

16 Nov 2019 by Bahrudin Hrnjica

In this article, we are going to explore the main features in the new C# Juypter Notebook.

Using MongoDB .NET Driver with .NET Core WebAPI

8 Nov 2019 by Petru Faurescu

Simplified guide to building a fast, secure web application backend

Configuring Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role Error in Installing SharePoint 2013 in Windows Server 2012

2 Nov 2019 by Melick

Configuring Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role Error in Installing SharePoint 2013 in Windows Server 2012

Drag and Drop between Multiple Trees in Jquery using jstree

21 Oct 2019 by Chris A. Johnson

Drag and Drop between Multiple Trees in Jquery using jstree

The Asynchronous Programming Models (C# 5.0 Series)

12 Oct 2019 by mazhou

Asynchronous programming models

.NET

parallel-processing

New Features and Enhancements in .NET Core 3.0

25 Sep 2019 by Shameel

.NET Core 3.0, with a significant number of changes and improvements, was released on 23rd September 2019. The most important changes are discussed in this article. The post New Features and Enhancements in .NET Core 3.0 appeared first on The Developer Space.

Migrating your SQL Server Workloads to PostgreSQL – Part 3

22 Sep 2019 by Shameel

Part 3 of this multi-part article series discusses the actual migration process: Schema and data migration, ETL/ELT, Reporting & OLAP, Scheduling and Applications & Services migration.. The post Migrating your SQL Server Workloads to PostgreSQL – Part 3 appeared first on The Developer Space..

Implementing ‘Batch Mode’ using Kendo Upload Control for ASP.NET Core

31 Aug 2019 by Chris A. Johnson

How to implement 'Batch Mode' using Kendo upload control for ASP.NET Core

Boost Your Xamarin App Development With Meta Programming

26 Aug 2019 by DotnetShtien

"Metaprograms are programs that manipulate themselves or other programs as data." Anders Hejlsberg.

.NET

PostSharp

Xamarin

In Depth LSTM Implementation using CNTK on .NET Platform

22 Aug 2019 by Bahrudin Hrnjica

Implementation of the LSTM recurrent neural network in CNTK shown in detail

GetMyMusicOffOfMyIpodAndOntoMyComputer Application in VB

19 Jul 2019 by timtocci

Originally this application was a console application that I developed to get the music off of my iPod. After my post on transparent forms in VIsual Basic I decided to port it to a Widget format to make it easier to use and demonstrate what goes into creating a transparent Windows Forms application.

LiteDb Review

23 Jun 2019 by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

Some LiteDB use cases

Code Sharing Part 2: Automatic Semantic Versioning of NuGet Deploys

28 May 2019 by Lee P Richardson

How to automatically incorporate semantic version information into NuGet libraries during building, packaging, and publishing of .Net libraries to private NuGet feeds.

.NET

Azure

PowerShell

Share Code Like a Boss: Part 1 - Private NuGet Feeds in Azure DevOps

29 Apr 2019 by Lee P Richardson

Private NuGet Feeds in Azure DevOps

Using MongoDB .NET Driver with .NET Core WebAPI

16 Apr 2019 by Petru Faurescu

What’s about Problem / solution format brings an easier understanding on how to build things, giving an immediate feedback.

Handling Caching with ResponseCache attribute in the .NET Core MVC web application

21 Mar 2019 by Benktesh Sharma

The caching of HTTP response implies that when an HTTP request is made, the response generated by the server is stored in some place by the browser or the server for potential re-use in successive HTTP request for the same resource.

Introduction to Serverless Computing using Azure Functions

17 Mar 2019 by Madhur Kapoor

One of the quickest way to get your code up and running in Azure is to use Azure Functions which makes use of the serverless architecture. When we say serverless, it means that we don’t have to worry about the provisioning and maintaining of virtual machines or servers.

Making Your .NET Application Less Quirky

12 Feb 2019 by Rion Williams

How to make your .NET application less quirky

.NET

MVC

ASP.NET

Genereting proxies during runtime using Reflection.Emit

25 Dec 2018 by n.podbielski

Reflection.Emit is very powerful tool. It creates IL code and since C# is converted into IL too, we have the same functionality as in C# and even more. It is very powerful and at the same time very complicated. Because of that it is worth to discuss how and for what it should be used.

Faster than Reflection: Delegates. Part 1.

25 Dec 2018 by n.podbielski

This article is first part of the series of three. Next ones you can find here and here.. Code for all three articles, with new features and bug fixes is available on GitHub and as Nuget package.. Why not Reflection?. If you working with .

IEnumerable and State Machines

14 Nov 2018 by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

IEnumerable and state machines

.NET

LINQ

combination

C# Modifiers Use and Abuse – Part 1

14 Nov 2018 by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

Modifiers in C# - use and abuse

Games as a Service?

13 Nov 2018 by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

Games as a service

Getting Closure on Closures

13 Nov 2018 by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

Getting closure on Closures

Visual Neural Network Designer in ANNdotNET

26 Sep 2018 by Bahrudin Hrnjica

Visual Neural Network Designer in ANNdotNET

Getting started with Python

15 Sep 2018 by ashish__shukla

What is Python? Python is a general purpose,interpreted and high-level programming language.It is object-oriented and dynamically typed programming language.Dynamically typed means that variables are not required to be declared before using them.Instead you directly assign value to a variable.

Azure Deployment using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and .NET Core

31 Aug 2018 by Sander Rossel

Set up Continuous Integration and Deployment to Azure in VSTS using Azure and Visual Studio. The post Azure Deployment using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and .NET Core appeared first on Sander's bits.

Azure Functions and Serverless Computing

29 Aug 2018 by Sander Rossel

Get started with Azure Functions and serverless computing in Azure. We'll see what serverless computing is and how it's implemented in Functions.

ARM Templates to Deploy your Resources to Azure

16 Aug 2018 by Sander Rossel

Taking Continuous Deployment one step further by deploying your infrastructure to Azure using Azure Resource Manager Templates, or ARM Templates. The post ARM Templates to Deploy your Resources to Azure appeared first on Sander Rossel.

Solve build error with msbuild at Microsoft.PackageDependencyResolution.targets(198,5)

31 Jul 2018 by YasIkeda

If you run msbuild and get an error message that points out Microsoft.PackageDependencyResolution.targets(198,5)., then this article may help you and your build. The problem is so simple, but if you are new with building .NET code without Visual Studio, it would not look such simple.

.NET

Visual-Studio

Compress & Zip Files using DotNetZip

23 Jul 2018 by Passion4Code

How to compress and zip files using DotNetZip

.NET

MVC

Few Features of ASP.NET Core 2.0

23 Jul 2018 by Passion4Code

This post lists a few features of ASP.NET Core 2.0.

System Jobs monitoring using Flow

9 Jun 2018 by YawerIqbal

System Jobs AsyncOperation or System Job is an important Dynamcis 365 system entity. Usually we don’t create its records, rather they are created automatically. A record represents a single execution of an asynchronous resource.

.NET

Windows

Asynchronous Programming in .NET – Motivation and Unit Testing

21 May 2018 by Nikola M. Živković

Asynchronous Programming in .NET – Motivation and Unit Testing

.NET

Windows