.NET Programming

How to use request decompression in ASP.NET Core 7

Take advantage of the request decompression middleware in ASP.NET Core 7 to enable your API endpoints to accept requests that contain compressed content.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Apr 27, 2023 5 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

Applying the DRY, KISS, and YAGNI principles in C#

If you don’t repeat yourself, keep it simple, and implement only the functionality you really truly need, your C# code will be cleaner, simpler, and much easier to maintain.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Apr 20, 2023 8 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Software Development

How to use the unit of work pattern in ASP.NET Core

Take advantage of the unit of work design pattern to build flexible, extensible, and reusable data access layers in your ASP.NET Core applications.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Apr 6, 2023 8 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

Get started with the rate limiting middleware in ASP.NET Core 7

Take advantage of the new rate limiting middleware in ASP.NET Core 7 to protect against malicious attacks on your applications and ensure equitable use of server resources.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Mar 30, 2023 5 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to work with EF Core migrations in ASP.NET Core

Take advantage of migrations in EF Core to manage database schema changes over time and keep them in sync with the data models of your ASP.NET Core applications.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Mar 23, 2023 6 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to send emails using SendGrid in ASP.NET Core

Take advantage of SendGrid to integrate reliable and scalable email into your ASP.NET Core applications. Here’s how.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Mar 2, 2023 7 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to use parameter binding in minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core

Take advantage of parameter binding in ASP.NET Core 7 to convert request data to strongly typed parameters, improving both application performance and code maintainability.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Feb 23, 2023 8 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

Orchestration and choreography in .NET microservices

Orchestration takes a centralized approach, and choreography a decentralized approach, to coordinating the interactions of microservices. Understand the differences.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Feb 16, 2023 8 mins

Microsoft .NET Software Development

The best new features in ASP.NET Core 7

The latest version of Microsoft’s web application development framework brings excellent new capabilities to middleware, minimal API apps, and more. Here are the highlights.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Feb 9, 2023 8 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to use implicit and explicit operators in C#

Take advantage of implicit and explicit operators to convert between user-defined types and improve the readability of your code.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Feb 1, 2023 5 mins

C# Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

How to work with Action, Func, and Predicate delegates in C#

Learn how you can take advantage of delegates like Action, Func, and Predicate to facilitate callbacks and add flexibility to your code.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jan 24, 2023 6 mins

C# Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

How to work with delegates in C#

Take advantage of delegates to promote flexibility and code reuse in your .NET applications and to implement event-driven programming with ease.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jan 19, 2023 5 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Software Development

How to use OpenAPI in ASP.NET Core

Take advantage of the built-in support for OpenAPI in ASP.NET Core to automatically document your HTTP endpoints. Minimal APIs are supported too.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jan 12, 2023 7 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to use the null object pattern in .NET

Take advantage of the null object pattern in .NET to eliminate the need for null checks and avoid runtime errors in your applications.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jan 5, 2023 5 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to use symmetric and asymmetric encryption in C#

Learn how to protect the information handled by your .NET applications by encrypting and decrypting the data using either a single key or a public/private key pair.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Dec 22, 2022 7 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Software Development

How to work with endpoint filters in ASP.NET Core 7

Take advantage of endpoint filters in ASP.NET Core 7 to modify request and response objects, short-circuit the request processing pipeline, or handle cross-cutting concerns for every request.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Dec 15, 2022 6 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to use BufferedStream and MemoryStream in C#

Take advantage of the stream classes in .NET 7 for faster reads and writes of the data in your .NET applications.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Dec 8, 2022 6 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to use EF Core query types in ASP.NET Core 7

Take advantage of query types in EF Core to query types that don’t have keys and to map to tables and views that lack an identity column.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Dec 1, 2022 6 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to work with logging in EF Core 7

Learn how you can use Entity Framework Core to log data to the console, SQL Server, and other log targets when working with ASP.NET Core 7 applications.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Nov 10, 2022 5 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to use the in, out, and ref keywords in .NET Core

Take advantage of the in, out, and ref keywords to pass parameters to your C# methods in .NET and make your code more readable and maintainable.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Nov 3, 2022 6 mins

C# Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

How to use BitArray in .NET 7

Take advantage of the BitArray class in .NET 7 to perform bitwise operations on your data for improved performance.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Oct 27, 2022 8 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

Use model validation in minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 6

Take advantage of FluentValidation to validate your model classes when working with minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 6.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Oct 13, 2022 6 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to use cancellation tokens in ASP.NET Core 7

Take advantage of cancellation tokens in ASP.NET Core to allow long running operations to be cancelled gracefully and keep applications responsive.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Oct 5, 2022 7 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to use route handler filters in minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 7

Take advantage of minimal API filters in ASP.NET Core 7 to modify request and response objects or short-circuit the request processing pipeline.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Sep 22, 2022 6 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to create a custom configuration provider in ASP.NET Core 6

ASP.NET Core configuration providers read configuration data from common sources such as JSON files and databases. But you can use other sources by creating custom configuration providers.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Sep 15, 2022 7 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to use EF Core as an in-memory database in ASP.NET Core 6

Entity Framework Core allows you to store and retrieve data to and from an in-memory database. It’s a quick and easy way to test your ASP.NET Core 6 web applications.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Sep 8, 2022 9 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

The best new features in ASP.NET Core 6

Learn the most important new features and enhancements in Microsoft’s cross-platform framework for building modern web applications.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jul 21, 2022 7 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to work with a priority queue in .NET 6

Take advantage of the PriorityQueue class in .NET 6 to create queues that work based on priority values you assign to the elements.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jul 14, 2022 6 mins

C# Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

How to migrate ASP.NET Core 5 code to ASP.NET Core 6

It’s easy to update your ASP.NET Core 5 code to ASP.NET Core 6. Learn how by following these examples.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jul 7, 2022 6 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

The best new features in .NET 6

Microsoft .NET 6 marks a new era of developing performant, modern-day applications for web, cloud, desktop, and mobile devices.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jun 30, 2022 8 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Software Development

How to work with trace listeners in ASP.NET Core 6

Take advantage of trace listeners in ASP.NET Core 6 to add performance and debugging instrumentation to your applications with ease.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jun 23, 2022 7 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to implement IP whitelists in ASP.NET Core 6

Take advantage of middleware in ASP.NET Core 6 to check the remote IP address of every request, and allow requests only from known and trusted addresses.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jun 16, 2022 6 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Web Development

Use logging and DI in minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 6

How to implement logging, read from the configuration system, and use dependency injection in minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 6.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jun 2, 2022 5 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to work with String.Create in C#

Take advantage of String.Create to create strings with no allocation overhead and improve the performance of your .NET 6 applications.

By Joydip Kanjilal

May 26, 2022 7 mins

C# Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

How to compress and decompress strings in C#

Take advantage of the GZip and Brotli compression methods to reduce the size of string data and improve performance in your .NET Core applications.

By Joydip Kanjilal

May 12, 2022 7 mins

C# Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

How to work with Azure Functions in C#

Take advantage of Azure Functions to run small pieces of code that can be triggered by events in the Azure cloud.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Apr 28, 2022 10 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Microsoft Azure

How to enforce architecture rules in C#

Take advantage of the NetArchUnit to enforce architecture rules in your application and ensure consistency of quality and standards.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Apr 14, 2022 7 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Software Development

How to work with disconnected entities in Entity Framework Core

Learn how you can track changes to entities while disconnected from the EF context in Entity Framework Core.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Mar 10, 2022 6 mins

C# Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

How to work with IAsyncDisposable in .NET 6

Take advantage of the IAsyncDisposable interface to dispose of objects in a non-blocking way and make your .NET applications more efficient.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Feb 10, 2022 5 mins

C# Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Demystifying the Program and Startup classes in ASP.NET Core

Program and Startup are the main classes for configuring .NET applications. Learn how to use them in ASP.NET Core 6.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jan 6, 2022 6 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to use the minimal hosting model in ASP.NET Core 6

The minimal hosting model in ASP.NET Core 6 means having to write less boilerplate code to get your application up and running.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Dec 16, 2021 5 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to resolve dependencies in ASP.NET Core

Explore three different ways to resolve dependencies in ASP.NET Core 6, using constructor injection, action method injection, or IServiceProvider instances.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Nov 11, 2021 6 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to improve StringBuilder performance in C#

Take advantage of best practices for using StringBuilder to reduce memory allocations and improve the performance of your string operations.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Nov 4, 2021 7 mins

C# Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

How to use IDisposable in ASP.NET Core

Learn the different ways to dispose of objects that implement IDisposable in ASP.NET Core.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Oct 21, 2021 5 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Software Development

How to use Simple Injector in ASP.NET Core MVC

Take advantage of the fast, easy, and lightweight Simple Injector inversion of control library to implement dependency injection in your ASP.NET Core MVC applications.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Oct 14, 2021 5 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How to prevent CSRF attacks in ASP.NET Core

Take advantage of anti-forgery tokens in ASP.NET Core to protect users of your applications against cross site request forgery exploits.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Sep 30, 2021 7 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

How coupling impacts software quality

Why loose coupling between components makes your .NET application more flexible, manageable, scalable, and testable.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Sep 16, 2021 7 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Software Development

How to use string interpolation in C# 9

Take advantage of string interpolation to incorporate variable substitution in formatted strings in C#.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Aug 19, 2021 4 mins

C# Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

How to build lightweight services in ASP.NET Core 6

Take advantage of the extension methods of the IEndpointConventionBuilder interface to implement lightweight services sans template or controller in ASP.NET Core 6.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Aug 11, 2021 7 mins

C# Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

How to work with Azure Queue Storage in C#

Take advantage of Azure Storage queues to store large numbers of messages for asynchronous or even distributed processing.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Aug 5, 2021 7 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Microsoft Azure

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.NET Programming

How to use request decompression in ASP.NET Core 7

Applying the DRY, KISS, and YAGNI principles in C#

How to use the unit of work pattern in ASP.NET Core

Get started with the rate limiting middleware in ASP.NET Core 7

How to work with EF Core migrations in ASP.NET Core

How to send emails using SendGrid in ASP.NET Core

How to use parameter binding in minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core

Orchestration and choreography in .NET microservices

The best new features in ASP.NET Core 7

How to use implicit and explicit operators in C#

How to work with Action, Func, and Predicate delegates in C#

How to work with delegates in C#

How to use OpenAPI in ASP.NET Core

How to use the null object pattern in .NET

How to use symmetric and asymmetric encryption in C#

How to work with endpoint filters in ASP.NET Core 7

How to use BufferedStream and MemoryStream in C#

How to use EF Core query types in ASP.NET Core 7

How to work with logging in EF Core 7

How to use the in, out, and ref keywords in .NET Core

How to use BitArray in .NET 7

Use model validation in minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 6

How to use cancellation tokens in ASP.NET Core 7

How to use route handler filters in minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 7

How to create a custom configuration provider in ASP.NET Core 6

How to use EF Core as an in-memory database in ASP.NET Core 6

The best new features in ASP.NET Core 6

How to work with a priority queue in .NET 6

How to migrate ASP.NET Core 5 code to ASP.NET Core 6

The best new features in .NET 6

How to work with trace listeners in ASP.NET Core 6

How to implement IP whitelists in ASP.NET Core 6

Use logging and DI in minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 6

How to work with String.Create in C#

How to compress and decompress strings in C#

How to work with Azure Functions in C#

How to enforce architecture rules in C#

How to work with disconnected entities in Entity Framework Core

How to work with IAsyncDisposable in .NET 6

Demystifying the Program and Startup classes in ASP.NET Core

How to use the minimal hosting model in ASP.NET Core 6

How to resolve dependencies in ASP.NET Core

How to improve StringBuilder performance in C#

How to use IDisposable in ASP.NET Core

How to use Simple Injector in ASP.NET Core MVC

How to prevent CSRF attacks in ASP.NET Core

How coupling impacts software quality

How to use string interpolation in C# 9

How to build lightweight services in ASP.NET Core 6

How to work with Azure Queue Storage in C#

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