Memory leaks have long been programmer’s worst nightmare in .NET. When it comes to production servers, memory leaks are one of the most common and annoying issues. As we all know production servers must operate with the least amount of downtime possible. But memory leaks slow it down and...

OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot ChatGPT, has ramped up its hiring around the world, bringing on roughly 1,000 remote contractors over the past six months in regions like Latin America and Eastern Europe, according to people familiar with the matter. About 60% of the contractors were hired to...

Today we will see, how to enable Logging directly to Loki via Serilog for a .NET Core Microservice and visualize the logs in Grafana. Before we start, What is Loki? Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be...

Prerequisites: VSCode and .Net 7 installed. Don't need to copy the code, GitHub link provided in the end. Open up a terminal in VSCode or any IDE of your choice, run: dotnet new console 2 files will appear, default Program.cs and .csproj named according to your folder: Now let's...

You might already know that Google uses over 200 ranking factors in their algorithm… But what are they, exactly? Well, you’re in for a treat because I’ve put together a complete list. Some are proven. Some are controversial. Others are SEO nerd speculation. But they’re all here. And I...

Naming, but not in the way you think. Our knowledge represents a minute portion of reality. Names are the visible portion of that knowledge. Phil Karlton once said, “there are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” One is a real problem; the other is...

Did you ever face a situation where you have a search UI, like a front-end application, that has a data table and you need to support a complex query construction that can contain Free Text search, Sorting of multiple columns, and extra filters and query parameters starts to look...

Aha! There is always something intimidating about Dependency Injection. I distinctly remember a couple of years ago, telling a .Net recruiter for a contract project, that, “I had no idea what DI is” He immediately stopped talking to me. It’s just one of those moments. It was true, to...

Unit testing is one of the major parts of software testing which can be handled by the developer itself. It is used to test the smallest components of your code. The purpose of the Unit test is to validate the functionality or expected output of your code during your development...

C# AngleSharp tutorial shows how to parse HTML in C# with AngleSharp library. The library can also parse SVG, MathML, or XML. AngleSharp GitHub: https://github.com/AngleSharp Document Object Model (DOM) is a standard tree structure, where each node contains one of the components from an XML structure. Element nodes and...

Defined long ago, the SOLID principles are intended to improve the readability, adaptability, extensibility, and maintainability of object-oriented designs. The five SOLID principles of object-oriented class design facilitate the development of understandable, tested software that many developers can use at any time and place. We give Robert C. Martin,...

We are going to discuss the Unit of Work design pattern with the help of a generic repository and step-by-step implementation using .NET Core 6 Web API. Agenda Repository Pattern Unit of Work Step-by-step Implementation Prerequisites Visual Studio 2022 SQL Server .NET Core 6 SDK Repository Pattern The repository...

Database Setup with DbUp + Postgresql + Dapper in ASP.Net Core In this tutorial, we are going to explore how we can setup our database on startup when using Dapper for accessing database. When using Dapper, one of the key learning I came to know is that we have...

Exception Handling is one of the important topics in Software Development. Exception means mainly run-time errors that occur at the time of execution of your application. The developer needs to handle that exception otherwise the application will be terminated.   Every developer has their own way of handling the errors...

Introduction This article will teach us about effective paging, sorting, and filtering using SQL Server Stored Procedure. Find more about Stored Procedure in SQL Server - Stored Procedure. Article Overview Background. Prerequisites. How to do effective Paging, Sorting, and Filtering with Stored Procedure. Complete example. Summary. Background There was...

Simplify complex joins and subqueries using SQL Server Common Table Expressions or CTEs. It also provides a way to query hierarchical data. This article provides a complete overview of CTEs, types of CTEs, benefits, drawbacks, and how to use them with SQL Server. A Common Table Expression or CTE is a...

In this article, we are going to discuss the working of CQRS and MediatR patterns and step-by-step implementation using .NET Core 6 Web API. Agenda Introduction of CQRS Pattern When to use CQRS MediatR Step-by-step Implementation Prerequisites Visual Studio 2022 SQL Server .NET Core 6 Introduction of CQRS Pattern...

Here’s the simple step-by-step guide that will teach you how to build and code a generic repository. There are oodles of design patterns. Some of these design patterns are floating about on antique blogs full of mad logic. They’re ridiculous enough to make the entire modern cloud rub its belly...

New and old ways of creating your own exceptions in dotnet with C# 11 and .NET 7. Let’s talk about building custom exceptions in C# code and why you’d want to do that. We’ll cover the traditional way as well as a newer way you might want to do this...

By software engineering standards, ASP.NET Web Forms can be considered old school. Perhaps I’m aging myself with that statement, but its true. From a software perspective, even 10 years begins to show its age. I started to use Web Forms the year after they were introduced by Microsoft in...