Pointers in C# and Memory Safety: Span vs. C# 16 unsafe
June 3, 2026 9 minutes read For most of its life, C# has kept you away from raw memory. You get garbage collection, bounds-checked arrays, and a type system that...
Maintainability Index: A Practical Guide for C# Developers
June 1, 2026 9 minutes read If you have ever opened a code analysis report and seen a score labelled “Maintainability Index” sitting next to one of your classes, you...
Improve C# code performance with Span<T>
June 1, 2026 9 minutes read C# Span<T> and ReadOnlySpan<T>, which C# 7.2 introduced in 2017 and which .NET Core fully supports, are highly efficient structures for working with contiguous...
C# Nullable Types Explained (2026)
June 1, 2026 9 minutes read C# Nullable is two features sharing one name. The older one, nullable value types, has been around since C# 2.0 in 2005 and lets...
Anatomy of an Open-Source AI Coding Agent Built in .NET: CodeAlta
May 31, 2026 9 minutes read A large language model doesn’t perfom any action. It reads text and writes text. That is the whole contract. So how does an “AI...
An Introduction to Clean Architecture
May 25, 2026 3 minutes read Clean Architecture in C# and .NET: A Detailed Introduction It seems to me that the topic of software architecture has attracted a lot of...
C# String Interpolation Explained
May 25, 2026 9 minutes read C# string interpolation is the dollar-sign syntax that embeds variables and expressions directly inside a string literal. Introduced in C# 6, it has largely...
.NET – 7 Decompiler Compared (2026)
May 25, 2026 9 minutes read Need to read the C# behind a compiled assembly? A good .NET decompiler turns IL code back into readable C# in seconds, and most...
In the Jungle of .NET Obfuscator Tools
May 25, 2026 9 minutes read In this article, I will share our genuine experience with various .NET Obfuscator tools. In the end, we picked .NET Reactor to obfuscate our...
SOLID Design in C#: The Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) with Examples
May 25, 2026 9 minutes read The Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) is one of the five essential SOLID design principles in C# and .NET. These principles are guidelines for the...
SOLID Design in C#: The Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) with Examples
May 25, 2026 9 minutes read The Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) is the “I” in SOLID and one of the five essential SOLID design principles for object-oriented code in C#,...
Cyclomatic Complexity in C#: Everything You Need to Know
May 25, 2026 9 minutes read Cyclomatic Complexity (or CC) in C# is a code metric that counts the number of linearly independent execution paths through a method. Concretely, it...
SOLID Design in C#: The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)
May 25, 2026 9 minutes read The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) is the third of the five SOLID design principles, and for many C# developers it is also the most...
SOLID Design in C#: The Open-Close Principle (OCP)
May 25, 2026 9 minutes read The Open-Closed Principle (OCP) is the “O” in SOLID, the five object-oriented design principles every C# and .NET developer eventually runs into. In one...
SOLID Design in C#: The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
May 25, 2026 9 minutes read The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) is one of the five essential SOLID design principles that guide object-oriented programming in C# and .NET. It is...
C# 15 Unions
May 25, 2026 9 minutes read A C# union -also called a discriminated union, tagged union or sum type- is a type whose value is exactly one of a fixed,...
C# Async/Await Explained: Complete Guide with Examples [2026]
May 22, 2026 9 minutes read Mastering C# async / await is key to building fast, scalable .NET apps. Introduced in C# 5 back in 2012, the C# async and...
Modern C# Hello World
May 21, 2026 9 minutes read The modern C# Hello World is a single line of code: [crayon-6a232f57f128c828021338/] No class, no Main() method and no using directive to write. Three...
A Guide to Code Coverage Tools for C# in 2026
May 17, 2026 2 minutes read In this post, we’ll walk through 8 different .NET code coverage tools and list their features to help you make a decision. The tools...
C# Pattern Matching Explained (2026)
May 15, 2026 9 minutes read Last updated: May 2026. Covers C# 7 through C# 14. C# Pattern Matching lets you test whether an expression has a specific shape (a...
Lack of Cohesion of Methods: What Is This And Why Should You Care?
May 14, 2026 2 minutes read Lack of cohesion of methods (usually shortened to LCOM) is one of those things that sits fairly high up on the software hierarchy of...
Visual Studio Enterprise vs. Professional
May 12, 2026 2 minutes read If you write .NET code for a living, you might spend your day inside Visual Studio. The catch is that “Visual Studio” isn’t one...
C# Record Explained
May 11, 2026 7 minutes read A C# record is a lightweight, data-centric type designed primarily for storing and representing values rather than implementing behavior. Introduced in C# 9, the...
Onion Architecture: Going Beyond Layers
April 25, 2026 1 minutes read So you’ve read about the Onion Architecture and think you get it. There are layers in this architecture. They’re onion-like. And they make your...
Hexagonal Architecture: What Is It and How Does It Work?
April 23, 2026 9 minutes read Hexagonal architecture is a model — or pattern, if you prefer — for designing software applications around a simple idea: put inputs and outputs...
Boxing in C#: What It Costs You and How to Get Rid of It
April 21, 2026 9 minutes read Boxing in C# is the conversion of a value type (an int, a struct, an enum, etc.) into an object reference or an interface...
The Road to Visual Studio 2027
April 16, 2026 9 minutes read At the Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 keynote, Mads Kristensen laid out the vision for the future of development tools—centered on a bold...
LLM Chat in .NET with IChatClient: The Complete Guide
April 9, 2026 9 minutes read The IChatClient interface from the Microsoft.Extensions.AI package offers a clean, unified way to integrate LLMs like OpenAI, Copilot, or Anthropic into your application. It’s...
Domain-Driven Design Demystified
April 4, 2026 1 minutes read Domain-Driven Design, usually shortened to DDD, is a software design approach that puts the business problem at the center of the code. Instead of...
REST vs. RESTful: The Difference and Why the Difference Doesn’t Matter
April 2, 2026 1 minutes read REST API is one of the most popular APIs in the web development community. Most teams reach for it before anything else, and most...