- 9/30/2024
- 4 min
xUnit v3 and some stuff about TUnit
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!
Hey, I'm Steven a .NET Developer and Freelancer in Zurich, Switzerland. I am a Microsoft MVP.
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LINQ Joins on multiple columns in Entity Framework
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How to test HttpClient inside API Tests
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To Soft Delete or Not to Soft Delete
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- 5 min
async2 - The .NET Runtime Async experiment concludes
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- 8/5/2024
- 1 min
Organizing Parameters in Minimal API with the AsParametersAttribute
Even though it was introduced in .NET 7, I came across recently the AsParametersAttribute. Let's have a look what it is good for.