- 5/13/2022
- 7 minute read
Tail-Recursion - Explained with the Fibonacci series
What is Tail-Recursion? We will discover this "special" form of recursion on the example of the Fibonacci series. Also we will check how much faster it is and why.
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- 5/12/2022
- 4 minute read
Why are sealed classes faster in C#? And should I seal them?
In C# we can add the sealed modifier to a class to indicate that no one is allowed to derive / inherit from that class.
Let's have a look at the compiler in certain scenarios what happens if you seal a class.
- 5/7/2022
- 8 minute read
Passing by value or by reference - What is faster?
When we are passing objects around we can do this either via reference or by value. Which of those two methods is faster?
To answer this question we have to dive into a bit of info about what happens exactly when you pass something around and how the other side will receive this.
- 4/26/2022
- 2 minute read
ReadOnlyCollection is not an immutable collection
In this blog post we discover how we can mutate a ReadOnlyCollection to have more or less entries than its original state. Readonly does not mean it is immutable. Also we will check out the ImmutableArray.
- 4/21/2022
- 3 minute read
Is public const bad?
Is declaring a number or string as public const considered bad practice? Let's have a look what a const variable means in the first place.
Let's find out and also check what are the alternatives.
- 4/19/2022
- 5 minute read
Modal Dialog component with Bootstrap in Blazor
This short blog post will show you how to utilize Bootstrap to create a small and reuseable ModalDialogComponent.
- 4/14/2022
- 13 minute read
4 Different ways of creating an array
In this blog post I will show you 4 different ways of creating an array and how they differ from each other.
- 4/13/2022
- 2 minute read
default(MyStruct) vs new MyStruct() - what is the difference?
There are multiple ways to create a new struct, either via var myStruct = default(MyStruct) or via var myStruct = new MyStruct(); . Are there any differences?
- 4/11/2022
- 35 minute read
From Zero to Production - Generate everything with a single button
This blog post will show you how to setup, from scratch, your GitHub repository so you can in a matter of a single click:
- Run tests and build your application
- Release the application for example to nuget
- Create a Release on GitHub with Release notes
- Update the documentation utilizing GitHub Pages and DocFx
Therefore we will build a "template" repository you can take as a foundation.
- 4/8/2022
- 8 minute read
struct vs readonly struct vs ref struct vs record struct
C# knows struct since its down of time. But there are also recent additions like readonly struct, record struct and ref struct.
This article will show what are the differences between those 4.