- 22/07/2024
- 5 min
The state machine in C# with async/await
You often here that the async/await keywords leads to a state machine. But what does that mean? Let's discuss this with a simple example.
Hey, I'm Steven a .NET Developer and Freelancer in Zurich, Switzerland. I am a Microsoft MVP.
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Recent Posts
- 15/07/2024
- 6 min
How not to benchmark!
I came across a recent LinkedIn post about the let statement in LINQ and it's performance implication. And in typically influencer fashion it out right claimed that using let in LINQ is a bad idea and should be avoided. But is it a bad idea?
- 08/07/2024
- 1 min
UUID v7 in .NET 9
.NET natively knows UUID v4 aka Guid.NewGuid(). But with preview 7 we get Version 7 of UUID's natively.
- 02/07/2024
- 7 min
Codespaces for your open-source project
In this blog post, I will show you how to use GitHub Codespaces to make it easier for contributors to get started on your open-source project. We will set up a codespace for a .NET repository and configure it to install the required dependencies and tools.
- 26/06/2024
- 2 min
ReadOnlySet<T> in .NET 9
The next preview (preview 6) will bring a new type ReadOnlySet<T>. This is a read-only set that is similar to ReadOnlyCollection<T>. Let's see how it works and why it was introduced.
- 21/06/2024
- 6 min
NCronJob - June Edition
The last update of NCronJob was some time ago - and as always, there are some new features in the meantime. So here we are, let's go through to highlight them!
- 17/06/2024
- 3 min
Are my EF LINQ to SQL queries safe?
Have you ever asked yourself if your EF LINQ queries are susceptible to SQL injection attacks? Either because you are querying some user data from a text field or directly taking whatever your API hits against the database?
- 10/06/2024
- 2 min
Does an HttpClient await the Header and the body?
If you call HttpClient.GetAsync or HttpClient.PostAsync and then await the result, does the await wait only for the headers to be received or does it wait for the body to be received? Let's find out!
- 03/06/2024
- 8 min
StringBuilders magic for very large strings
The StringBuilder class is used to create mutable sequences of characters. Strings are immutable, so if you need to perform multiple operations on a string, it is better to use a StringBuilder instead of a string. This is especially useful when you need to concatenate a large number of strings. But there is more magic to it, especially when we go BIG!
- 28/05/2024
- 2 min
Cancel WhenAny - linked CancellationTokenSource
In today's short post, I will show you how to cancel a Task with multiple inputs (aka multiple CancellationTokens) using CancellationTokenSource and CancellationTokenSource.CreateLinkedTokenSource.