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.
Pagination is the process of dividing a set into discrete pages. In the context of Entity Framework, that means we are only getting a certain amount of entries from the database.
And we will implement a very easy solution to make that happen in 3 steps. The result will look like this:
var pagedList = DbContext.BlogPosts.ToPagedList(page: 1, pageSize: 5);
I often read that Task is used for multithreading in C# / .NET, but that is not the case. And it is crucial to understand why this isn't the case. We will also see which problem exactly Task is solving in the first place.
GitHub is a powerful platform for developers to showcase their work and projects. It can be an excellent tool for landing a job, as many employers use it to search for and review potential candidates. In this post, we'll discuss how to effectively use GitHub as a portfolio to impress potential employers and increase your chances of getting hired.
I want to showcase two of my many side projects. My .NET Tips and Tricks website, where I collect and categorize, well, tips and tricks around .NET-related topics as well as my ValueStringBuilder.
Strings are one of the most universal data types. We use them for URLs or regular expressions or even to define some date. With .NET 7 we have a new way of giving those strings a bit of meaning. Meet StringSyntaxAttribute.
I also show you a way how to use them in .NET 6 and earlier.
There is still a long road ahead of us until the release of .NET 8, but the first new language constructs are getting public. The first one I want to present is: Default Parameters in Lambdas.
Many know that you can take ReadOnlySpan<char> objects when dealing with strings. They give you a direct way of operating on the underlying memory. Often times you can use them interchangeably, but there are scenarios where you really have to watch out what is going on.
This blog post will have a look at a major problem with ReadOnlySpan when used like a "regular" string.
Does your Dependency Injection container is one big pile of method calls one after the other?
Are there 50 lines of just AddScoped, AddTransient, and so on? Well, let's fix this.
We can utilize extension methods to make an order to that mess!
.NET knows a big list of collection-like types like: IEnumerable, IQueryable, IList, ICollection, Array, ISet, ImmutableArray, ReadOnlyCollection, ReadOnlyList, and many more.
This blog post will give you an exhaustive list of types in .NET and when to use what.
This blog post will show you a very simple Dependency Injection container.
This will give a better understanding of what Dependency Injection is and how it is done. And sure we will see how this is related to IoC - Inversion of Control.