- 6/23/2022
- 8 minute read
When does Blazor (not) render?
This blog post whill shed some light on when Blazor renders your content. Of course there are obvious candidates, but there are also some things to be aware about.
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.
Older Posts
- 6/20/2022
- 3 minute read
Wrap Event based functions into awaitable Tasks - Meet TaskCompletionSource
You might have code where an object offers you an event to notify you when a specific operation is done. But event's can be tricky to use, especially when you want to have a continuous flow in your application.
That is where TaskCompletionSource comes into play. We can "transform" an event based function into something which is await-able from the outside world via the await keyword.
- 6/18/2022
- 3 minute read
goto in action - The exception from the rule
A lot of developers will say never use goto. This keyword is bad as it promotes spaghetti code. But as so often in live the exception confirms the rules. Let's see where goto can increase the readability and maintainability.
- 6/14/2022
- 6 minute read
What is the difference between C#, .NET, IL and JIT?
When you get started or even if you have quite some knowledge it can be confusing to juggle with those terms. So what is the difference between C# and .NET? And what does it have to do with IL and JIT?
- 6/10/2022
- 8 minute read
Delegate, Action, Func, Lambda expression - What the heck!?
C# offers a lot of utility especially around the delegate topic. So let's see what exactly a delegate is and how the distinct types like delegate, Action, Func, Predicate, anonymous function, lambda expressions and MulticastDelegate behave. A lot to digest and discover so let's go.
- 6/3/2022
- 4 minute read
The garbage collector in .NET - Part 2: Compacting
I already made a post about how the Garbage Collector works in .NET and also introduced the topic of Generation slightly. This article will look a bit more in detail into why we have those mechanisms in the first place, including the Large Object Heap.
- 6/2/2022
- 6 minute read
ObjectPool - Rent and return some instances
Just imagine a car pool: There is a dealer which bought the car and lent's it to you. After a while you will return this car where you got it from. Much like that works an ObjectPool in C#. You can rent an expensive object from the pool and when you are done with it, you just return it. Sounds beautiful, doesn't it?
Let's explore the advantages and disadvantages of a ObjectPools and how they work.
- 5/30/2022
- 4 minute read
Blazor with an RSS Feed
If you use a public Blazor Server application (like this blog is) and you want to expose an RSS Feed (I know kind of old school) you can perfectly do that with Blazor Server and a little help from a nuget package from Microsoft. Furthermore this guide is not only valid for Blazor but every ASP.NET Core endpoint.
- 5/24/2022
- 9 minute read
How to unit test a RavenDB
RavenDB is a well known open-source document-oriented databse for .NET. And of course we want to test our logic and not only locally while developing, but also our continuous integration pipeline should be able to run our tests. So let's tackle exactly that.
- 5/21/2022
- 12 minute read
The garbage collector in .NET
This article will talk about the garbage collector in .NET. Why do we have and need him? And why it is essential to understand the behavior to know what impact on our application he has.