Category: .NET
Architecture of a .NET Application: 8 Case Studies
January 30, 2024 9 minutes read This recent question on Reddit’s Number of projects per solution led to interesting debates. Of course, the answer depends largely on the overall size...
C# Record Explained
January 23, 2024 7 minutes read A C# record is a data-centric type that usually doesn’t contain behaviors. C# 9 introduced the keyword record to quickly declare a class primarily...
C# ValueTuple Full Guide
January 18, 2024 9 minutes read In 2017 C# 7.0 introduced ValueTuple. This feature makes it convenient to handle lightweight data structures. Here is an example of relying on the...
WPF vs WinForms – Making the Right Decision in 2024
January 12, 2024 7 minutes read If you’re a developer faced with the decision of selecting between Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Forms (WinForms) commonly referred to as WPF...
.NET – 7 Decompiler Compared (2024)
January 10, 2024 9 minutes read Looking to reverse engineer or disassemble some .NET code? Then learning how to decompile .NET assemblies is an essential skill for any .NET developer...
Improve C# code performance with Span<T>
November 7, 2023 9 minutes read The structure Span<T> in the namespace System appeared with C# 7.2 in 2017. Span<T> offers type-safe access to a contiguous region of memory. Such...
C# Async Await Explained
November 2, 2023 9 minutes read In 2012 C#5 was released. This version introduced two new keywords async and await. At that time CPU clock speed reached an upper limit...
.NET 8 Top 10 New Features
October 23, 2023 7 minutes read .NET 8 will be officially release very soon in November 2023. Designated as an LTS (Long Term Support) version, it guarantees ongoing support, updates,...
Unveiling the Impressive Features of Upcoming C# 12
October 23, 2023 5 minutes read Microsoft unveils new features in C# 12 Preview. C# 12 along with .NET 8 will be officially released in November 2023. Let’s explore the...
Vertical Slice Architecture in ASP.NET Core
October 20, 2023 6 minutes read The organization of code in a solution is a subject of frequent debates. Currently, two prominent approaches have garnered attention: Clean Architecture versus Vertical...
Clean Architecture in ASP.NET Core
October 20, 2023 9 minutes read The Clean Architecture approach has gained significant popularity for the design and development of software applications, emphasizing key principles such as maintainability, testability, and...
Improve Visual Studio Build Performance
August 11, 2023 7 minutes read Time is your most precious asset and slow build is high in the list of developer’s productivity killers. With slow build the penalty is...
Improved .NET Debugging Experience with Source Link
June 20, 2023 3 minutes read Source Link is a Microsoft technology that lets .NET developers debug the source code of NuGet packages referenced by their applications. I underlined source...
.NET Micro-Optimization and Refactoring Trick
May 31, 2023 3 minutes read Recently, I made an interesting observation regarding Dictionary<string,T>: the method TryGetValue() is faster when building with new Dictionary<string,T>(StringComparer.Ordinal). This performance difference can be attributed...
C#12 class and struct Primary Constructors
April 13, 2023 3 minutes read Since C#9 we have the convenient primary constructor syntax for class record (or just record) and struct record: [crayon-65f271e8a4452118511022/] C#12 introduces primary constructor for...
In the Jungle of .NET Obfuscator Tools
April 10, 2023 7 minutes read In this article I will explain our genuine experience with various .NET Obfuscator Tools. We end up explaining that .NET Reactor is the one...
The new .NET 7.0 IParsable<TSelf> interface
November 21, 2022 3 minutes read As I explained in the post C# 11 static abstract members, C# 11 let’s write static abstract members in interface. This feature was mostly...
C# 11 required members
November 15, 2022 3 minutes read C# 11 proposes the new keyword required that can apply to an instance property or an instance field declaration within a class, a record...
C# 11 File Scoped Types
October 27, 2022 4 minutes read C#11 added the file scoped types feature: a new file modifier that can be applied to any type definition to restrict its usage to...
Managed pointers, Span, ref struct, C#11 ref fields and the scoped keyword
October 25, 2022 9 minutes read The concept of managed pointer exists in the NET runtime and C# since the inception of the platform in the early 2000. Managed pointers...
C# 11 static abstract members
June 14, 2022 5 minutes read C# 11 proposed interface members declared as static abstract. This is useful to handle both: Polymorphism at the type level, for example when abstracting...
WPF / Winforms UI Refactoring: A Case Study
May 11, 2022 4 minutes read WPF and Winforms are still so massively used that Microsoft fully supports those technologies in .NET Core, .NET 5, 6 , 7 and so...
C# Pattern Matching Explained
April 4, 2022 6 minutes read Since the C# version 7, C# has support for pattern matching. C# pattern matching is here to simplify complex if-else statements into more compact...
How to collect return values from Parallel.ForEach?
January 26, 2022 1 minutes read Today I took 10 minutes to answer the 9 years old stackoverflow’s question: How do I collect return values from Parallel.ForEach? I though the...
C# Binary Search: Fast find of a free slot between 0 and uint.MaxValue
January 3, 2022 2 minutes read When a user is exporting a result to a document with NDepend, the tool needs to find a file name not taken in the...
Solution to Visual Studio 2022 messing up Visual Studio 2019
November 10, 2021 3 minutes read As all .NET developers I am quite excited by Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6 going RTM. However I noticed that Visual Studio 2022...
5x Lessons Learned from Migrating a Large Legacy to .NET 5/6
October 26, 2021 9 minutes read In January 2020 I wrote the post Not planning now to migrate your .NET 4.8 legacy, is certainly a mistake. Hopefully we followed our...
Debugging a .NET App on Linux from Windows Visual Studio with WSL
September 15, 2021 6 minutes read NDepend analysis, reporting, API and Power-Tools will run on Linux and MacOS with the next version 2021.2. To achieve that, a major refactoring session...
Code Testability: A Case Study
September 1, 2021 2 minutes read [crayon-65f271e8a5b8f725505259/] This method is untestable because its logic depends on NdpOperatingSystem.Kind which returns an OSPlatform object. Notice the usage of the attribute UncoverableByTest that...
3 productivity Resharper features missing in Visual Studio
August 10, 2021 5 minutes read Resharper is a great Visual Studio productivity extension but on the other hand it slows down significantly the IDE, especially when working with large...