The .NET News Daily Issue #17

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

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Jasen Fici
September 02, 2024

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Developer of The Week

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Nick Cosentino | Simplifying software engineering concepts for you | Principal Software Engineering Manager @Microsoft

.NET Library of The Week

We’re going with MessagePack as this week’s library. I’ve had a number of production applications that requried high-volume Redis caching, and let me tell you .. nothing tests your serlializes like Redis. The implementation is a little painful but once you get it working right, MessagePack is hands down the best serializer on the market.

MessagePack for C#

The extremely fast MessagePack serializer for C#. It is 10x faster than MsgPack-Cli and outperforms other C# serializers. MessagePack for C# also ships with built-in support for LZ4 compression - an extremely fast compression algorithm. Performance is important, particularly in applications like games, distributed computing, microservices, or data caches.

Today’s Articles

Chain of Responsibility Design Pattern in C#

The Chain of Responsibility design pattern is a behavioral pattern that allows a request to be passed along a chain of handlers. Each…

Global Exception Handling in ASP.NET Core Using Middleware and Serilog

Streamline Error Handling with Middleware and Log Comprehensive Errors Using Serilog

Global Exception Handling in ASP.NET Core Using Middleware and Serilog

Streamline Error Handling with Middleware and Log Comprehensive Errors Using Serilog

Understanding CQRS Design Pattern

CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) is a pattern that separates the responsibilities of reading and writing data into distinct models. This separation can help optimize both aspects independently and improve the scalability and maintainability of applications.

10 Must-Know C# Code Smells and How to Fix Them

Detect and Fix C# Code Flaws

Default Implementation in C# Interfaces

This article details creating a `StringUtils` utility class in Java to centralize common string operations. It covers methods for checking if a string is alphanumeric with underscores or consists solely of letters, enhancing code organization and reusability.

Abstract Factory Design Pattern in .NET Core C# 12

In this detailed article by Ziggy Rafiq, you will learn how to implement key components like AbstractFactory, ConcreteFactory, AbstractProduct, and ConcreteProduct in .NET Core with C# 12. By leveraging the modern features of C# 12 and .NET Core, this pattern enhances flexibility and scalability in software development.

Protecting against Prompt Injection Attacks in Chat Prompts | Semantic Kernel

Semantic Kernel allows prompts to be automatically converted to ChatHistory instances. Developers can create prompts which include <message> tags and these will be parsed (using an XML parser) and converted into instances of ChatMessageContent. See mapping of prompt syntax to completion service model for more information.

BinaryFormatter removed from .NET 9 - .NET Blog

Starting with .NET 9, we no longer include an implementation of BinaryFormatter in the runtime. This post covers what options you have to move forward.

Feature Flags are more than just Toggles

Feature Flags are conditional statements, but they can be much more powerful. They have a lot more utility than simple toggles.