Hey, I'm Steven a .NET Developer in Switzerland. I am a Microsoft MVP. Also, this blog is open source on GitHub.
Use always a
StringBuilder
That is what you can read from time to time. The basic idea is, that a StringBuilder is "better" to be defined.
Why are people telling that lie? Let's discuss this and see what it isn't true.
Often times we hear about allocations on the heap. How can we easily measure this? This article will show you a very easy way of doing so.
Plus we will answer the question how big is an empty array? And if you think 0 bytes, then spoiler alert, that is not the case at all.
Often times we have unit or integration tests that rely on some input data. The easiest solution is just to take some hard-coded values and move on with life. This has some major downsides:
Giving specific values in a test carries meaning, but we are often times not interested in that. We just need to pass the object around to fulfill the API. Also the simplest solution to fulfill your test is literally checking against those values.
Here is an elegant solution to that problem: AutoFixture. I will show you what it can do, especially in combination with xUnit.
This article will explain design patterns, which we use on a daily base, with smaller (over)simplified illustrations.
You might have heard that mutable value types are evil. But why is that and why does the .NET framework use them then? Are they really that evil?
Let's have a look at a few examples and have a look what is going on!
Often times your API in your program or library evolves. So you will need a mechanism of telling that a specific API (an interface or just a simple method call) is obsolete and might be not there anymore in the next major version.
Also it can happen that you have a preview version of a API, which might not be rock-stable and the API-surface might change. How do we indicate that to the user?
This edition has the following infographics:
DebuggerDisplayAttributeExceptionDispatchInfoimplicit and explicit operator
.NET knows local functions and lambda expressions. You can almost take them interchangeably, but there are also some differences between them.
This article will show the differences between them.
You might have read, that re-throwing an exception like this: throw exc; is considered bad practice and you should just do this: throw; instead.
But why is it like that?
In this article we will have a closer look at LiteDB, a .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file. We will discover the advantages of LiteDB and why it is a viable candidate for your next project.
We will also explore what are the differences between a NoSQL and a classical SQL database are and what this has to do with the reminiscent SQL CE or the more modern SQLite database.