Dispose and Finalize are two methods you often use to release resources occupied by your .NET and .NET Core applications running in the context of the CLR. Most importantly, if you have unmanaged resources in your application, you should release the resources occupied by such resources explicitly. Due to...

What is .Net 5 .Net 5 is one of the major and latest releases of Microsoft’s .NET family. It comes with many exciting features compared to the previous released .Net core. The primary goal with the release of .Net 5 is to merge all future .Net development onto one...

The following are a set of best practices for using the HttpClient object in .NET Core when communicating with web APIs. Note that probably not all practices would be recommended in all situations. There can always be good reasons to break from a certain practice. This list is not...

.NET has a large number of built in exceptions. However, there maybe times when none of the built exceptions seem adequate for your particular scenario and you will need to create your own custom (AKA “user defined”) exception. This post focuses on a discussion of how to create custom...

Code Generation Code generation is a great way to apply patterns consistently across a solution or to create multiple similar classes based on some outside input file, or even other classes in the same solution. The tooling has changed over the years, but the result is the same… a...

If you’re anything like me, you’ve looked for ways of making your applications faster. In this article, I’ll show you a somewhat unknown class in the .NET framework that makes lazy creation of objects easy to do and thread safe. The Old Way Before we get to the fun...

As we aware that framework .net core 2.1 is now under LTS (Long Term Support) releases. So, this framework is more stable and may use to create a large application. When we talk about web application, security is a major concern. In this article, I have explained about 10...

SQL Server performance tuning can seem overwhelming when you don’t know where to start. In this article Robert Sheldon explains 9 best practices for performance tuning. SQL Server is a powerful and feature-rich database management platform that can support a wide range of applications, but if queries are not...

Monitoring SQL Server for performance is a critical part of a DBA’s job. In this article, Edward Pollack explains some of the SQL Server performance monitor data and how to collect it. Windows collects a wide array of useful metrics that can be used to measure the performance of...

In C#, reference types can be assigned null values. This is something that developers will have to live with until they use classes to create software. Unfortunately, the folks at Microsoft cannot simply disallow null assignment to reference variables at compile time, because that would break the codebase of...

I've recently gotten into using Docker in my development cycle and I'm really enjoying how much of a wonderful tool it is. One thing that always used to be a pain was setting up a development server to run SQL Server. Now with Docker, I can just spin up...

Как работает скрам-команда? В чем отличие между «владельцем продукта» и «скрам-мастером»? Как составить бэклог продукта и грамотно провести ежедневный скрам? Разобраться в терминологии фреймворка Скрам (Scrum) замредактору Теплицы Наталье Барановой помогал менеджер «Альфа-банка», скрам-мастер Артем Молчанов. Эксперт подробно рассказал об основных понятиях, которые ежедневно используют работающие по Скраму организации....

In the context of helping the teams at Criteo to clean up our code base, I gathered and documented a few C# anti-patterns similar to Kevin’s publication about performance code smell. Here is an extract related to good/bad memory patterns. Even though the garbage collector is doing its works...

C# has a feature, String Interpolation, to format strings in a flexible and readable way. The following example demonstrates the way how we usually output a string when we have data beforehand then pass data to the template string. var name = "April"; var dob = new DateTime(2000, 4,...

The other day at work I ran into an attribute I hadn't heard about, the [Conditional] attribute. In this post I start by describing conditional compilation using pre-processor directives like #if, and then introduce the [Conditional] attribute, and describe how it differs to using #if. Conditional compilation with #if...

IP-адрес (v4) состоит из 32-бит. Любой уважающий себя админ, да и вообще айтишник (про сетевых инженеров молчу) должен уметь, будучи разбуженным среди ночи или находясь в состоянии сильного алкогольного опьянения, правильно отвечать на вопрос «из скольки бит состоит IP-адрес». Желательно вообще-то и про IPv6 тоже: 128 бит. Обстоятельство первое. Всего...

Эта статья раскрывает концепции Middleware в ASP.NET Core. К концу этой статьи вы получите четкое представление о следующих моментах: Что такое Middleware? Почему порядок расположения Middleware имеет значение? Методы Run, Use и Map. Как создать собственное Middleware? Как реализовать просмотр каталогов с помощью Middleware? Что такое Middleware? Middleware (промежуточное...

We are going to have a look at the steps you need to take to publish an ASP.NET Core application. Then, we are going to have a look on how to set this website up in IIS. Locating the SPA Static Files In-order for the ASP.NET Core application to...

SignalR is a popular software library that allows you send server code to client-side applications, like a React application. This tutorial will show you how to install SignalR on both your ASP.NET Core and React Typescript application. Creating your Applications When creating your ASP.NET Core application, there is an...

There are many benefits to adding a React application to your ASP.NET Core application. The fact that you can house your front-end React tools with your API .NET tools in one application has to be one of the biggest. So how do you go about doing it? Well, if...