Hey, I'm Steven a .NET Developer in Switzerland. I am a Microsoft MVP. Also, this blog is open source on GitHub.

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6/30/2022
- C#
4 minute read

C# 11 is in front of our doorsteps. A lot of the features are know, so let us have a look at the future. We will discover some features which could be included in C# 12 or later.

Base for this is the csharplang-repository. So let's discover brand new features and how they could help us in our everyday life. We will see things like:

Compound assignments in object initializer
Discriminated unions
semi-auto properties aka field
ConfigureAwait(false) on assembly level
Exponentiation operator

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6/27/2022
- UNO Platform
- C#
8 minute read

With the newest UNO Platform update to .NET 6 we can leverage some cool things to simplify our dependency management. We combine .NET 6 with the new feature called Directory.Build.props to make that work.

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6/23/2022
- C#
- Blazor
8 minute read

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.

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6/20/2022
- .NET
- C#
- Task
3 minute read

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.

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6/18/2022
- C#
- goto
3 minute read

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.

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6/14/2022
- C#
- .NET
- MSIL
- IL
- JIT
6 minute read

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?

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6/10/2022
8 minute read

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.

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6/3/2022
4 minute read

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.

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6/2/2022
6 minute read

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.

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5/30/2022
- RSS
- Blazor
- C#
4 minute read

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.

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Older Posts

C# vNext - What could come

Central nuget store for your UNO Platform App

When does Blazor (not) render?

Wrap Event based functions into awaitable Tasks - Meet TaskCompletionSource

goto in action - The exception from the rule

What is the difference between C#, .NET, IL and JIT?

Delegate, Action, Func, Lambda expression - What the heck!?

The garbage collector in .NET - Part 2: Compacting

ObjectPool - Rent and return some instances

Blazor with an RSS Feed