Hey, I'm Steven a .NET Developer in Switzerland. I am a Microsoft MVP. Also, this blog is open source on GitHub.
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!
NuGet can cache a lot of packages and other stuffs over time. Here a small rundown on how to clear the biggest chunk.
The dotnet documentation gets hints about using GitHub Copilot. Is this an ad? And can we expect more in the future?
New dotnet version means new features and improvements. There is a nice update to the HttpClient class 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.
Sometimes you want to have a custom 404 page - and since .NET 8 and "Blazor WebApps" the <NotFound> tag of the Router doesn't work anymore, so let's create a custom page for that.
LinkedIn is never short on performance tips on .NET - And this time we drag the whole database towards the client, twice!
After some time, I updated my C# language mind map to the latest version: C# 14. Either as "poster" or clickable version!
Long title - short intro? Well - I recently came across my own stupidity and wanted to display that to the world. Basically, how to dynamically selecting a column with Entity Framework.
Recent news came out that Microsoft is working on a new TypeScript compiler written in Go (or golang - whatever you prfer). It promises to be 10x faster than the current compiler that is written - well in TypeScript itself. While this is certainly good news, why isn't Microsoft betting on .NET and C#?