The .NET News Daily Issue #11

Your Daily Dose of .NET Insights, Tools, and Trends

Author

Jasen Fici
August 23, 2024

It’s Friday, and we’ve made it to the end of the week! Before you sign off for the weekend, catch up on the latest .NET updates and maybe find some inspiration for that weekend side project. Here’s to wrapping up the week on a high note!

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Developer of The Week

Dave Callan | dotnet

Microsoft MVP | .NET Developer & tech lead from Ireland! Talks about Azure, #csharp, Entity Framework, #dotnet and Visual Studio.

.NET Library of The Week

I’m keeping this library here for another week. Our list of subscribers isn’t anywhere to scale yet and I still love this library.

GitHub - ZiggyCreatures/FusionCache

FusionCache is an easy to use, fast and robust hybrid cache with advanced resiliency features. - ZiggyCreatures/FusionCache

Today’s Articles

Daily Newsletter

Enhance Resilience in .NET with Polly!

In the first part of this, we explored the concepts of retries, exponential backoffs, and circuit breakers in distributed systems…

New git tooling features - Visual Studio Blog

Discover the new Git tooling features in Visual Studio 2022 v17.11, enhancing your workflow with improved GitHub and Azure DevOps integration. Enjoy more meaningful code reviews, better pull request management, and a fix for the CodeLens timeline issue. Download the latest update now!

Introduction to Reflection: Inspecting Code at Runtime in C#

Introduction

Entity Framework Core with Database First Approach

This article will explain how to use Entity Framework Core to link a PostgreSQL database to a.NET Core application with DB First Approach.

OneOf Library in C#

The OneOf library in C# is a utility designed to handle scenarios where a value can be one of several different types. It allows you to…

C#: LINQ Expressions with Enumerable Class (Part 3)

Sorting, Finding Extremes, and Calculating Averages with LINQ

Unit of Work and Repository Patterns with Dependency Injection in C#

Introduction

Microsoft .NET 9 previews C#, runtime, SDK improvements

Microsoft .NET 9 Preview 7 also brings new features and enhancements to the ASP.NET Core web framework and .NET MAUI UI framework.

Implementing the CircuitBreaker Pattern in C# for Resilient Applications

Introduction:

CRUD Operations with Repository Pattern and Web API in .NET 8

This guide covers creating a clean, maintainable data access layer by leveraging the Repository Pattern for managing database interactions and exposing endpoints through Web API, enhancing your .NET 8 applications.