Hey, I'm Steven a .NET Developer in Switzerland. I am a Microsoft MVP. Also, this blog is open source on GitHub.
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.
After covering and collecting multiple parts of LINQ explained with sketches I bundled them all together in a small booklet with more explanation and code samples.
Therefore I present: LINQ explained with sketches - the eBook. Over 30 pages with smaller explanations and more LINQ operations than in my last post. Litte Bonus: There are interactive links with smaller examples to fiddle around with.
Finally the long awaited bulk update and bulk delete feature is heading towards Entity Framework 7. So we will have a look how to use it and what might be some limitations.
Also I will have a quick look at the performance aspect, because this was the main driver for that feature.
NDepend is a static analysis tool for .NET managed code. The tool proposes a large number features, from dependency visualization to Quality Gates and Smart Technical Debt Estimation. For that reasons the community refers to it as the "Swiss Army Knife" for .NET Developers.
So let's check if that descriptionI shamelessly stole from Wikipedia checks out and what we can do with that tool.
Often times it is easier to have a nice illustration at hand, which explains you things the easy way. So let's do this for a lot of LINQ operations like Where, Select and friends.
Of course a small explanation will be attached as well.
The famous mediator pattern. Used so often especially in combination with CQRS.
If you know how to order food at a restaurant then you already halfway there to understand how the CQRS pattern works. I promised it is not that difficult 😉
In this article I will show how the mediator pattern itself works, what CQRS is and its advantages. For that we will write a small application, which demonstrates how to use the pattern and what we gain from using it.
Since .NET6 we have the possibility to define an easy way of logging common statements:
Meet Compile-time logging source generators. This article will show why we have them and how to use them. Of course a smaller benchmark will also follow.
There are plenty of models how to do your branching in git. All of them are viable approaches with their respective pros and cons. So let's have a look at those branching strategies and where they are great and where they are falling off.
So let's deep dive into: Git-Flow, GitHub-Flow, Gitlab-Flow, Trunk Based Development.