- 6/23/2025
- 7 minute read
You can't use switch expressions in Blazor (sometimes)
Did you ever try to have a switch expression in Blazor? Yes, and did it go well? Sometimes not. Let's see why!
Hey, I'm Steven a .NET Developer in Switzerland. I am a Microsoft MVP. Also, this blog is open source on GitHub.
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- 6/16/2025
- 16 minute read
.NET 10 Performance Edition
As every year, the dotnet team adjusted the runtime and libraries to improve performance. So let's go over some of the highlights. I will link the corresponding blog post or GitHub issue for each item, so you can read more about it if you are interested.
And of course: You will find the benchmarks at the end of the article.
- 6/9/2025
- 3 minute read
How to get to know the latest dotnet features - the nerdy way
If you want to be up to date with dotnet development, you can obviously follow the official blogs from Microsoft and release notes. But what if you want to pick into the future or smaller details that aren't released or covered? Then let's go to GitHub!
- 6/2/2025
- 2 minute read
Why is enumerating over List faster than IList?
If we have a List<T> and an IList<T>, enumerating over the List<T> is faster than enumerating over the IList<T>. Why is that?
- 5/26/2025
- 2 minute read
Avoiding reflection in C# in way unsafer ways!
For good reasons, many folks don't want to use reflection. Since .NET 8, we have a better way of dealing with this in most of the cases (when known in advance). But we can go the opposite: Make it even unsafer for a tiny bit performance!
- 5/19/2025
- 2 minute read
Writing new guards with extensions in C# 14
In C# we have many nice guards sitting on top of static exceptions classes like ArgumentNullException, ArgumentOutOfRangeException, etc: As ArgumentException.ThrowIfNullOrEmpty, ArgumentException.ThrowIfNullOrWhiteSpace. Now we can extend them easily!
- 5/12/2025
- 2 minute read
Clearing NuGet Caches
NuGet can cache a lot of packages and other stuffs over time. Here a small rundown on how to clear the biggest chunk.
- 5/5/2025
- 1 minute read
Does .NET Documentation get ads? Aka: Is Copilot in the docs something useful?
The dotnet documentation gets hints about using GitHub Copilot. Is this an ad? And can we expect more in the future?
- 4/28/2025
- 5 minute read
HttpClient improvements in .NET 10
New dotnet version means new features and improvements. There is a nice update to the HttpClient class in .NET 10.
- 4/21/2025
- 3 minute read
Extensions get an update in .NET 10
With the latest preview: .NET 10 preview 3, we did get an overhaul on extensions. It might enable some nice tricks in the future.