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.

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Redux Pattern in Blazor

In this blog post, we will use the Redux pattern with a small Blazor application. To demonstrate the inner workings, we will built everything from scratch.

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Yes you can create classes on the stack!

In this article we will create a class, aka a reference type on the stack, and therefore don't use any managed memory!

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Interfaces can have private methods

Let's drop some "useless" knowledge here. Interfaces can have private methods. This comes with the C# 8 feature: "Default interface methods".

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Structured Concurrency in C#

Did you ever hear about "Structured Concurrency"? If not, this article is for you. We will discover what it is, why it is useful, and what it could look like in C#.

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.NET 8 and Blazor United / Server-side rendering

New .NET and new Blazor features. In this blog post, I want to highlight the new features that are hitting us with .NET 8 in the Blazor world. So let's see what's new.

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Questions I asked as .NET interviewer

This blog post is a small collection of questions I asked as a technical interviewer when we had candidates for software developer positions. This might be helpful for you if you are preparing for a job interview.

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Less boilerplate code with the new primary constructor in C# 12

The new language feature "primary constructor" which will be released with C# 12 / .NET 8 this year (November 2023) allows you to remove some ceremonial code. Let's see how.

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A new way of doing reflection with .NET 8

.NET 8 introduced a new way of doing reflection. Why did they introduce this, and what are some benefits - this blog post will give you some insights.

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Building a Minimal ASP.NET Core clone

In this article, we will build a minimal version of what ASP.NET Core does - yes, you read right. We will create a very simplistic clone of ASP.NET Core to discuss how the whole thing works. Beginning with a simple console application, we will add the necessary components to make it work as a web server. Bonus points for our own middleware pipeline and dependency injection.

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