- 8/26/2024
- 3 minute read
To Soft Delete or Not to Soft Delete
In this blog post I will discuss the pros and cons of soft deleting records in a database versus other approaches you can take. Heat up your pop corn and get your salt ready!
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
- 8/19/2024
- 2 minute read
FormattableStringFactory - Creating dynamic FormattableString instances
I recently came across the FormattableStringFactory to create dynamic FormattableString instances. This is a very useful feature in combination with safe SQL queries and the SqlQuery method of Entity Framework Core.
- 8/12/2024
- 5 minute read
async2 - The .NET Runtime Async experiment concludes
The .NET team has been working on a new experiment called async2, which is a new implementation of the async/await pattern that is designed to be more efficient and more flexible than the current implementation. It started with green threads and ended with an experiment that moves async and await to the runtime. This post will cover the journey of async2 and the conclusion of the experiment.
- 8/5/2024
- 1 minute read
Organizing Parameters in Minimal API with the AsParametersAttribute
Even though it was introduced in .NET 7, I came across recently the AsParametersAttribute. Let's have a look what it is good for.
- 7/29/2024
- 4 minute read
How many API's does .NET have?
.NET is big, very big! So how many API's does it have? Let's find out!
- 7/22/2024
- 5 minute read
The state machine in C# with async/await
You often here that the async/await keywords leads to a state machine. But what does that mean? Let's discuss this with a simple example.
- 7/15/2024
- 6 minute read
How not to benchmark!
I came across a recent LinkedIn post about the let statement in LINQ and it's performance implication. And in typically influencer fashion it out right claimed that using let in LINQ is a bad idea and should be avoided. But is it a bad idea?
- 7/8/2024
- 1 minute read
UUID v7 in .NET 9
.NET natively knows UUID v4 aka Guid.NewGuid(). But with preview 7 we get Version 7 of UUID's natively.
- 7/2/2024
- 7 minute read
Codespaces for your open-source project
In this blog post, I will show you how to use GitHub Codespaces to make it easier for contributors to get started on your open-source project. We will set up a codespace for a .NET repository and configure it to install the required dependencies and tools.
- 6/26/2024
- 2 minute read
ReadOnlySet<T> in .NET 9
The next preview (preview 6) will bring a new type ReadOnlySet<T>. This is a read-only set that is similar to ReadOnlyCollection<T>. Let's see how it works and why it was introduced.