- 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
Hey, I'm Steven a .NET Developer in Switzerland. I am a Microsoft MVP. Also, this blog is open source on GitHub.
Older Posts
- 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
- 3/31/2023
- 5 minute read
Creating a ToolTip Component in Blazor
In this blog post we will create a ToolTip component in Blazor from scratch. We will use the Blazor WebAssembly template to create a new project. We will then add a ToolTip component to the project and use it in the Index page. We will also add some styling to the ToolTip component.
The advantage over using a library is that we can customize the component to our needs as well as keeping it simple! So let's get started!
- 3/27/2023
- 5 minute read
C# Source Generators: How to get build information?
Source generators are a powerful feature introduced to C#, allowing developers to generate additional code during the compilation process automatically. They can help reduce boilerplate, improve performance, and simplify your codebase.
This blog post will introduce source generators, discuss how they work, and walk through an example of a source generator for generating build information.
- 3/24/2023
- 2 minute read
Leverage 'is not' Operator for Exception Filtering!
Did you know you can use the 'is not' operator with exception filtering to simplify and improve your error handling in C#?
In this short blog post, I will show you how to use it.
- 3/21/2023
- 8 minute read
Caching in .NET with MemoryCache
In this blog post, we will discuss how we can "cache" entries from the database. We will talk about why we would do this in the first place and how to achieve that.
Also, we will talk about some implications and what "cache invalidation" is.
- 3/18/2023
- 4 minute read
Write your own AutoMapper in C#
Sometimes you have to map an object to another representation in C#. And you think: Why isn't C# duck-typing capable?
You might hear of libraries like AutoMapper that do the tedious work of mapping one object to another with the same structure. This blog post will give a super simple introduction to how those libraries are working internally.
In the end a bit of a subjective topic on whether or not I would use such libraries.
- 3/14/2023
- 2 minute read
LINQ // Skip and Take
Skip and Take are used for pagination or limit the number of elements returned by a query.
Since C# 8 you can use Take with a Range. Let's see some examples.
- 3/11/2023
- 12 minute read
How to write your own cron Job scheduler in ASP.NET Core (like Quartz, Hangfire, ...)
In this blog post we will discover how to write your own small task scheduler / job scheduler with cron notation in ASP.NET Core. You might know similar approaches under the name of Quartz or Hangfire.
With the help of BackgroundService we will build our own, lightweight version of it.