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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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".
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.
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.
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!