Category: .NET
Will Visual Studio Be Migrated to .NET Core and Become Multi-Platform?
April 22, 2024 7 minutes read I came across comments on a recent Reddit post and thought it would be intriguing to analyze the DLLs of Visual Studio 2022 (version...
C# String Interpolation Explained
April 17, 2024 4 minutes read C# String Interpolation is a powerful feature that simplifies the syntax for embedding variables and expressions within strings to construct strings dynamically. String interpolation...
Clean Architecture in ASP.NET Core
April 16, 2024 9 minutes read The Clean Architecture pattern has gained significant popularity for the design and development of software applications. It emphasizes key principles to better maintain, scale,...
Class vs Struct in C#: Making Informed Choices
April 15, 2024 9 minutes read In C# programming, choosing the right data type between classes and structs is a crucial decision that impacts application performance and design. This article presents...
C# Pattern Matching Explained
April 11, 2024 7 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...
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...
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-67e1eded7f4c7550305239/] C#12 introduces primary constructor for...
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...
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...
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-67e1eded81b73827182838/] 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...
Top 10 New .NET 6.0 API
July 7, 2021 5 minutes read .NET 6 introduces new handy APIs that will make our development journey easier. Let’s go through the top 10 new API in terms of...
How to Logically Name Embedded Resources in .csproj?
June 16, 2021 1 minutes read You can work with .NET for two decades and still discover some useful stuff. One thing that bothered me till now is that an...
Migrating Delegate.BeginInvoke Calls to .NET Core, .NET 5 and .NET 6
May 26, 2021 3 minutes read In this 2019 post, the .NET Base Class Library engineers announced that the good old Delegate.BeginInvoke .NET Framework syntax wasn’t supported in .NET Core...
On replacing Thread.Abort() in .NET Core
May 19, 2021 3 minutes read Thread.Abort() is not supported in .NET 5 / .NET Core We are actually migrating the NDepend analysis and reporting to .NET 5 and figured...
Visual Studio 2022 64 bits: Elements of history
May 11, 2021 7 minutes read Finally after all these years of waiting Visual Studio 2022 will run in a 64 bits process on 64 bits machines! As a consequence...
Hungarian Notation for Fields in C#
April 21, 2021 6 minutes read If there is one topic that divides the C# developers community, it is the Hungarian notation for fields. In our team we rely on...