Hey, I'm Steven a .NET Developer in Switzerland. I am a Microsoft MVP. Also, this blog is open source on GitHub.
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.
In this short blog post I want to show you two silly things so that you can apply right now! Both of them equally silly, but that is not the point (is it ever?).
We will see how to await an integer or TimeSpan and how to foreach through an integer. All of this thanks to the magic of extensions methods.
This edition has the following infographics:
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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.