Category: .NET Core Blog

I posted my previous simple string concatenation benchmark results where I was concatenating my name with spacer on Reddit recently. … Continue reading Simple string concatenation using String.Create and other performance sensitive approaches in .NET 8

I post .NET / C# and Visual Studio content on LinkedIn and Twitter almost daily. Please consider following me. LinkedIn … Continue reading Please follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn for more .NET content

Do we rely too much on third party libraries from NuGet? Are we exposing our clients to risks here by … Continue reading Do .NET developers rely too much on third party libraries from NuGet?

I took this Twitter poll recently to gauge how many devs were thinking of moving away from Moq after the … Continue reading Poll Results : Are many .NET devs moving away from Moq after #moqgate?

Warnings are too easy to ignore. Consider treating all warnings as errors by setting the TreatWarningsAsErrors property to true in … Continue reading How to treat all warnings as compile errors in .NET

To set properties for every project in a directory in a centralized location create a Directory.Build.props file in your solution … Continue reading Share settings across multiple projects using a Directory.Build.props file

I was wondering recently which .NET mocking library is most popular. I suspected Moq but ran a poll to find … Continue reading Poll Results : What .NET mocking library do you use?

Just for fun, I took benchmarks using BenchmarkDotNet to see what’s the fastest out of common ways used to concatenate … Continue reading .NET 8 simple string concatenation benchmarks

C# Tip 💡 ->Did you know LINQ Intersect can be used to find common items between two collections in .NET? … Continue reading Use LINQ Intersect method to find common items in two collections in .NET

Nullable Reference Types are supported since C# 8 in .NET and allow us to minimize the likelihood that our code … Continue reading Poll Results : Do you enable Nullable Reference Types in your C# 8+ .NET apps?

FYI … the NuGet website now allows you to filter by .NET target frameworks. Useful? What do you think? You … Continue reading NuGet website now allows filtering of packages by .NET target framework

To treat Nullable reference types (C# 8) warnings as errors to ensure they aren’t just ignored add line 7 below … Continue reading Treat Nullable references type warnings in C# 8+ as errors

I love it when an upgrade to the underlying .NET framework results in faster code without us actually having to … Continue reading .NET Framework 4.8 v .NET 7 simple ADO.NET select performance benchmarks

.NET 8 will have route syntax colour highlighting for all routes including those in minimal APIs, MVC, Web APIs, Razor … Continue reading ASP.NET route syntax colour highlighting coming in .NET 8