Hey, I'm Steven a .NET Developer and Freelancer in Zurich, Switzerland. I am a Microsoft MVP.
Also, this blog is open source on GitHub.
Entity Framework has two methods for converting a query to a list or an array: ToListAsync and ToArrayAsync. Of course there is also the sync version of these methods: ToList and ToArray. And sometimes, you should use the latter one!
When retrieving data from your database with Entity Framework, there are two major options: ToArray and ToList. Besides the different return type, is there any significant difference in performance between the two? Let's find out!
Today, we are going to benchmark the performance of the Minimal API in ASP.NET 9 (and for reference against ASP.NET 8 as well) against the classic Controllers. We will test a few scenarios and check how the performance of the Minimal API compares to the classic Controllers. Let's get right into it!
In this blog post I will show you two tricks how to easily switch between a branch back and forth and how to get the last checked out branches.
A feature that isn't really new but still didn't get my attention until recently is: "Central Package Management". So let's have a look at this in this blog post.
I know that there is a lot of fuse about TUnit and I am here writing about xUnit. I might cover TUnit in the future, but for now, the topic is the v3 prerelease of xUnit!
Join us for an exciting seminar with Fabian Gosebrink about .NET 8, Nx, and Angular! Learn the latest trends and best practices. More details: here
You might have heard that Swagger is removed in the templates of ASP.NET 9. So this blog post will show you alternatives.
In async code it is very common to pass a CancellationToken to the method that is being awaited. This allows the caller to cancel the operation if it is no longer needed. But this will lead to some ceremonial code that is repeated in every method. In this article I will show you how to manage CancellationToken in a central service in ASP.NET.
I came across a very annoying "issue" with LINQ joins (left joins) in Entity Framework where the compiler drove me nuts!