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.
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!
Today, we are going to benchmark the performance of the Minimal API in ASP.NET 9 (and for reference against ASP.NET 8 as well) against the classic Controllers. We will test a few scenarios and check how the performance of the Minimal API compares to the classic Controllers. Let's get right into it!
In this blog post I will show you two tricks how to easily switch between a branch back and forth and how to get the last checked out branches.
A feature that isn't really new but still didn't get my attention until recently is: "Central Package Management". So let's have a look at this in this blog post.
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!
Join us for an exciting seminar with Fabian Gosebrink about .NET 8, Nx, and Angular! Learn the latest trends and best practices. More details: here
You might have heard that Swagger is removed in the templates of ASP.NET 9. So this blog post will show you alternatives.