Category: .NET Core Blog

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

Just for fun I ran a BenchmarkDotNet comparison between .NET Framework 4.8 and .NET 7 for some reflection related functionality … Continue reading .NET Framework 4.8 v .NET 7 reflection performance benchmarks

FYI, in .NET 6+ the Chunk LINQ method is useful for splitting up sequences into sub sequences of a certain … Continue reading How to spilt a collection into sub collections of a certain size in .NET 6+ using the LINQ Chunk method

FYI… the StringSyntax Attribute is new in .NET 7 and allows us to tell Visual Studio what kind of string … Continue reading Use new StringSyntax Attribute in .NET 7 to give semantic meaning to strings

I love ChatGPT and previously posted an example of some ChatGPT generated code to create a controller, with DTO and … Continue reading .NET ChatGPT example – API controller using injected repository and DTO mapped to model using explicit operator

It’s not perfect but I’m absolutely loving ChatGPT. ChatGPT-3 (current version as of writing) is trained on 175 billion parameters, … Continue reading ChatGPT generated .NET CRUD controller with DTO mapped to domain model using AutoMapper

.NET 7 was released in November (2022) and includes a lot of awesome new features and performances improvements. It is … Continue reading Poll Results : Will you use .NET 7 in production even though it’s not an LTS release

FYI… in the latest Visual Studio 2022 preview (version 17.5 Preview 2) we can view the application output for ASP.NET projects … Continue reading ASP.NET application output now available in integrated Visual Studio window

Who remembers the big red Wrox books which were popular in the mid 2000s and early 2010s? Wrox used to … Continue reading .NET nostalgia – Wrox .NET books from the 2000s and 2010s

For the real .NET nerds amongst us the .NET 8 alpha version installer is available on GitHub.com/dotnet/installer. To see what’s … Continue reading .NET 8 alpha version available on GitHub.com/dotnet

If you have a set of benchmarks and are looking to run different ones at different times you can manually … Continue reading How to select BenchmarkDotNet benchmark in the console at runtime

It’s amazing to see the performance improvements of String.Replace across multiple versions of .NET 🚀🚀🚀🚀. When you have such a … Continue reading String.Replace performance improvements in .NET 5 v .NET 6 v .NET 7

I quite often post about performance improvements from one version of .NET to another BUT sometimes performance regressions happen. I … Continue reading .NET 7 has string concatenation related performance regressions

I ran a poll on my LinkedIn and Twitter profiles recently wondering if Rider or Visual Studio was used more? … Continue reading Poll Results : What IDE do .NET developers use mostly?

Not too much change from .NET 6 string concatenation benchmarks I ran previously. String.Join still is the fastest while String … Continue reading .NET 7 simple string concatenation benchmarks