Choosing between .NET Core and .NET Framework is a crucial decision for your business. Your choice between them can significantly impact the smoothness of your software projects and the success of your business. Both of these platforms have their own strengths and weaknesses. In this article, we explore the differences...

Jul 14, 2023 Some time ago, many professionals forecasted that .NET Core would be the upcoming successful thing, which would give an opportunity to developers for a large number of ideas/options in application development. Wherein, developers with good skills have a massive demand in this profession! So let us learn...

If you are embarking on the journey to become a .NET Framework developer in 2024, you’re in for an exciting ride! The .NET ecosystem is vast and constantly evolving. To help you navigate this landscape effectively, we’ve compiled a comprehensive roadmap that outlines the essential skills and technologies you...

Identify if-else statements as a problem in your code. If-else statements can be problematic if not used correctly. They can be difficult to read and can lead to code that is difficult to maintain. When used incorrectly, if-else statements can also lead to errors. Especially else statements may work...

In this article, I will show the most performant way to write queries for a collection of objects in .Net Core. The article discusses the common methods of LINQ and their comparison. After reading this article, you may have to review your project code! Comparisons were made between query syntax,...

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...

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 almost...

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,...

One of the most challenging things to do is ‘making the right choice.’ Arriving at a decision becomes even more complicated when there are multiple options in front of you☺. The same is the case with choosing a testing framework for .NET Core. The three major C# Unit testing frameworks...

We will demonstrate how to setup Elasticsearch and learn how to write basics statements. You will learn about the structure, commands, tools in Elasticsearch API and get it up and running using standard settings. Introduction We will be talking about the basics of Elasticsearch API. We are going to...

Although SQL Server's Full-Text search is good for searching text that is within a database, there are better ways of implementing search if the text is less-well structured, or comes from a wide variety of sources or formats. Ryszard takes ElasticSearch, and seven million questions from StackOverflow, in order...