- 5/6/2024
- 5 minute read
Boosting Productivity with Analyzers
I am a big fan of Analyzers, and in this blog post, I will showcase some of my favorite ones!
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
- 5/2/2024
- 4 minute read
Checking your solution for NuGet vulnerabilities or deprecated packages
While your software might be the best in the world, it's only as good as the libraries it uses. In this small blog post, we will discover how to check your solution for NuGet vulnerabilities or deprecated packages.
- 4/29/2024
- 6 minute read
How does a List know that you changed it while enumerating it?
Everyone falls for that and tries to change a list while enumerating it greeted by the System.InvalidOperationException: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute. message. But how does the List know that you changed it? Let's find out.
- 4/23/2024
- 7 minute read
Does readonly make your code faster?
In this blog post we will discover whether or not the readonly modifier can make your code faster. So without further ado let's get started.
- 4/19/2024
- 7 minute read
AI Hype - Am I out of work in five years?
AI is a hot topic - one would say hype topic, and there are bold claims like this:
There Will Be No (Human) Programmers in Five Years
Source: https://decrypt.co/147191/no-human-programmers-five-years-ai-stability-ceo
Now how far is this from reality? Let's take a look at the current state of AI in the context of programming.
- 4/15/2024
- 3 minute read
Fluent API to await multiple calls and get their respective results
Sometimes, you have multiple async calls to make, and you want to do that asynchronously and get the results afterward. Let's build a fluent API to do that.
- 4/8/2024
- 2 minute read
Equip 3rd party types with a deconstructor
Deconstructor are a C# language feature that allows you to define a method that will be called when an object is being split up into its components. While this is straightforward to implement for your own types, it is not possible to add a deconstructor to a 3rd party type - or is it?
- 4/1/2024
- 4 minute read
Pattern matching and the compiler can be surprising
Pattern matching is a powerful feature in C#. It allows you to match a value against a pattern and extract information from the value. The compiler does the magic for you - and sometimes it struckles with that.
- 3/25/2024
- 1 minute read
C# 13: Allow ref and unsafe in iterators and async
C# 13 might get a new feature soon that allows ref and unsafe in iterators and async methods.
- 3/18/2024
- 3 minute read
NCronJob - Scheduling made easy
Hangfire/Quartz or BackgroundService? Why not something in the middle? Did you ask yourself this question from time to time? Do you want to have a full-blown job scheduler with lots of setups, but more than BackgroundService is needed?
Meet: NCronJob!