- 5/8/2023
- 3 minute read
Entity Framework and ordered indexes
In Entity Framework 7, the team has added support for ordered indexes to the fluent API. In this blog post we will look at how to use this feature and what it means for your database.
Hey, I'm Steven a .NET Developer in Switzerland. I am a Microsoft MVP. Also, this blog is open source on GitHub.
Older Posts
- 5/3/2023
- 2 minute read
Controlling the log level of your application
In this blog post, we will have a look at the different log levels and how to control them.
- 4/30/2023
- 6 minute read
Verifying your DI Container
Microsoft's integrated dependency injection (short DI) container is very powerful, but there are also certain pitfalls. In this article, I will show you what some of the pitfalls are and how you can verify them.
- 4/27/2023
- 3 minute read
Create your own Validationattribute in ASP.NET Core
In this small blog post, I will show you how to create your own Validation attribute in ASP.NET Core to tailor-made your validation rules.
- 4/22/2023
- 11 minute read
Domain events and the "Unit of Work" pattern
In this blog post, we will discuss the "Unit of Work" pattern and how it can be used to implement domain events in a DDD application. For that, we will also discuss how we can leverage middleware to implement the "Unit of Work" pattern in a .NET application. A lot of things are going to happen in this blog post, so let's get started.
- 4/17/2023
- 3 minute read
Covariance and Contravariance in C#
Let's talk about Contravariance and Covariance in C# using .NET Framework examples!
Contravariance and covariance are essential concepts in C# when dealing with generics, enabling us to have more flexibility when assigning generic types. So let's have examples straight from the framework itself!
Also, we will go a bit deeper and talk what some differences between generic constraints and things like Contravariance are.
- 4/13/2023
- 14 minute read
.NET 8 Performance Edition
As with every .NET release, Microsoft improves the performance of the runtime and guess what: This release is no exception to this. In this blog post, I want to go through some of the improvements made so far (.NET 8 preview 3).
- 4/10/2023
- 3 minute read
5 useful extensions for Task<T> in .NET
In this short blog post, I will show you 5 useful extensions for Task
- 4/5/2023
- 3 minute read
Source Generators and Regular Expressions
Source Generators are more and more an integral part of the .NET ecosystem. But how does that play together with everyone's favorite: Regular Expressions?
In this blog post we will dive in how we can leverage source generators in combination with regular expression to have a debuggable, but also very performant way of executing regular expressions!
- 4/1/2023
- 8 minute read
LINQ on steroids with SIMD
In this blog post, we will explore the use of SIMD instructions to speed up LINQ queries. We will use the Vector