- 1/14/2025
- 1 minute read
Announcing Developer Academy
Fabian Gosebrink and I finally launch our new website: developer-academy.ch. A website meant for developers that want to level up their skills!
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.
Recent Posts
- 1/13/2025
- 2 minute read
Equipping 3rd party types with debugging capabilities
Debugging is important, and it's often useful to be able to inspect the state of objects in the debugger. However sometimes you're working with 3rd party types that don't have any debugging capabilities, so you can't see their internal state easily. In this blog post we will have a look on how to equip 3rd party types with debugging capabilities.
- 1/6/2025
- 11 minute read
Why is Open Source important? And is it free?
As I am an open source maintainer myself, I want to highlight my personal thoughts on why open source is important. I will put a bit more focus on the .NET side of things, but most of the thoughts are "valid" in the broader open source world.
- 12/23/2024
- 7 minute read
Authenticate videos and images in Angular
Sometimes you are faced with the need to authenticate videos and images in Angular. And yes I know, normally I write about .NET, but this one took my some time - so I thought it might be worth sharing.
- 12/16/2024
- 2 minute read
Some news about .NET 10: BackgroundServices and new String Comparer
Recently, there were two new features merged in .NET 10 I think are small little quality of life improvements: Avoid Blocking on startup with BackgroundServices and a new string comparer.
- 12/9/2024
- 2 minute read
LINQ might get a "left join" operator in .net 10
LINQ has a Join operator, that basically translates to something like a SQL INNER JOIN. There is no built in operator for a LEFT JOIN in LINQ, but you can achieve the same result by using a combination of GroupJoin, SelectMany and DefaultIfEmpty. But there is a chance that this might change in the future, as there is a proposal to add a LeftJoin operator in .net 10.
- 12/2/2024
- 3 minute read
Having fun with ValueTuple
Just as a heads up: This blog post will probably bring you 0 value in your daily life - well, maybe a short smile. Let's put ValueTuple to its extreme!
- 11/25/2024
- 5 minute read
"Always use early returns" - LinkedIn Edition
Ahhhh dear LinkedIn - a pool of gems where everyone is expert in everything. Over the time I collected some trophies from there and today I want to discuss one of them: "Always use early returns".
- 11/18/2024
- 3 minute read
How to assert assumptions in code that might not be true?
Sometimes we have to make assumptions in our code. For example, that a certain property or variable has a specific value. On top comes, we have a specific idea but we are not 100% sure if they are correct. Let's meet Debug.Assert.
- 11/11/2024
- 6 minute read
An awaitable Blazor Modal Dialog
I already showcased a simple modal dialog in a previous post. However, the dialog was not awaitable. In this post, I'll show you how to create an awaitable modal dialog.