The .NET News Daily Issue #18

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

Author

Jasen Fici
September 03, 2024

Back at it after the long weekend! If you’re feeling a bit rusty after all that relaxation, today’s .NET roundup is the perfect way to reboot your brain and get back in the groove. Let’s dive back into the code!

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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 required high-volume Redis caching and let me tell you .. nothing tests your serializers 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

Advanced C# Features: Exploring Delegates, Events, and Lambdas

C# is a robust, type-safe, object-oriented language that provides a rich set of features, enabling developers to create scalable and efficient applications. Among its advanced features, delegates…

Understanding of Domain Driven Design (DDD)

Domain-driven design is a software development approach that closely aligns software models with business needs. It focuses on key concepts like Entities, Value Objects, Aggregates, and Aggregate Roots to ensure consistency, integrity, and scalability in complex systems by structuring code around the business domain.

Fast Dictionary Lookup of UTF-8 String in the C# 13 with .NET 9 AlternateLookup

In .NET 9, a new method GetAlternateLookup<TKey, TValue, TAlternate>() has been added to dictionary-like classes: Dictionary…

Introduction to Blazor: A Modern Web Development Framework

WARNING!!!!!! SUPER MEGA GIGA EPIC WALL OF TEXT AHEAD! PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK! RISKS INCLUDE AMUSEMENT, EXCITEMENT, CAREER PROSPECTS…

Elevate Your .NET Skills: Mastering Async, Dependency Injection, and LINQ (Part 1)

Take your .NET skills to the next level with these essential techniques in asynchronous programming, dependency injection, and LINQ.

A Guide to .NET Concurrent Collections and Concurrency Strategies

Introduction

Common Async/Await Mistakes in C# (And How to Avoid Them)

Asynchronous programming with async and await in C# can significantly enhance the responsiveness and efficiency of your applications…

New GitHub Copilot features in Visual Studio 2022 17.11 - Visual Studio Blog

Experience smarter coding with enhanced GitHub Copilot features in Visual Studio 2022 v17.11. Enjoy improved AI-assisted code completions, better context understanding, and secure content exclusion. Boost your productivity and coding efficiency today by downloading the latest update!