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.
C# 11 brings some major improvements for structs. You remember Span<T>, which you couldn't create?
Now you can. C# 11 allows ref fields in a struct. Why this is a cool thing and what you can do with it, you will see in a minute.
In this small blog post we will have a look at how HTTPS works. Well, we will look how the cryptographic part works a bit more in detail.
The focus is on the Diffie Hellman Key algorithm, an asymmetric key exchange.
This article will show you what exactly a WebApplicationFactory is and why it is so "mighty" when it comes down to testing. I will highlight some of the properties, which you can leverage to write powerful tests.
Sometimes I publish parts of my infographics I publish on various channels with more explanation.
And then sometimes I don't. This time I just put some of my (hopefully self-explanatory) infographics here.
In this article I will show you what is the difference between x86 (32-bit) vs x64 (64-bit) in the .NET World.
What is the impact if you choose on or another.
Pattern matching, which was introduced in C# 9, is a hell of a beast and does more than you might think.
In this small blog post I show you where the magic is and what it does under the hood.
Pagination is a technique to load only smaller chunks of data you make visible to the user. Look at Google web search. You only have a certain amount of shown results even though there are millions. So Google has pages (like in a book) where you can go forth and back.
This has multiple advantages: First from a UX point of view you only show a reasonable amount of data to your user. The second benefit is for your API / DB as it only has to load a small page instead of the whole book.
Did you ever wonder what is a nice way of structuring your Blazor application?
I will show you how I structure my Blazor projects (as well as this very blog). What are the upside in contrast to the "default" structuring you get with the Blazor template.
This is a small story about how memory operates in your .NET application. Well not only .NET but how memory does or does not get allocated.
We will see how a 1 Gigabyte big array is only a few megabytes big to some extend. Furthermore I will discuss working set and committed memory.
Did you ever wonder why you "should" use async and await in your ASP.NET Core applications? Most probably, you heard something about performance. And there is some truth to it, but not in the way you might think.
So let's discuss this with smaller examples.