The .NET News Daily Issue #22

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

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Jasen Fici
September 09, 2024

Apologies for the delay, folks—today’s issue almost didn’t happen! Apparently, ‘X’ (fill in your choice of an uncooperative software, Wi-Fi, or cloud service) didn’t appreciate my weekend remote login attempts while I was on the go. But hey, persistence pays off, and we’re back with all the .NET goodness you’ve been waiting for!

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Developer of The Week

Poornima Nayar

Mother, Developer, Speaker, Microsoft MVP x4, Umbraco MVP x7, Certified Umbraco Master, .NET Foundation Outreach Committee Member

.NET Library of The Week

This is by far my favorite swiss-army knife utility library. If you aren’t using this, seriously, what are you spending your time doing?

GitHub - zzzprojects/Z.ExtensionMethods: C# Extension Methods | Over 1000 extension methods:

C# Extension Methods | Over 1000 extension methods: - zzzprojects/Z.ExtensionMethods

Today’s Articles

Say Goodbye to Boolean Flags

Everyone knows domain models is at the heart of software. That being said, there is a lot to go wrong with the design process. One…

Proposal: Introduction of Implicit Interfaces in C#

This proposal introduces a new type of interface in C#, called an “implicit interface”.

Diagnosing and Fixing Thread Contention in Multithreaded .NET Applications

Understanding and Resolving Thread Contention in Multithreaded .NET Applications for Enhanced Performance and Stability

Guide how to Saving Files in an Archive Using C# .Net

Guide to Saving Files in an Archive Using C# and System.IO.Compression

A Guide to Using the Decorator Pattern in Your C# Code

In this article, we will learn how to implement this pattern in your C# code, improve code reusability, and follow best practices for more maintainable and flexible software design.

Primary Constructors in C# 12

C# 12 introduces a new feature called Primary Constructors

What Is Common Table Expression (CTE) In SQL Server

A Common Table Expression (CTE) in SQL Server, defined using the WITH clause, is a temporary result set that simplifies complex queries by improving readability and maintainability. CTEs support recursive queries, enabling efficient handling of hierarchical data and enhancing overall query performance.

Don’t Miss the Await Keyword in C# — That’s How

What happens when you miss await keyword and how do you stop doing it?

Exciting New Features for GitHub Copilot for Azure

Use the power of Copilot to help you build and deploy apps to Azure faster!

Back to Basics: Await a Task with a Timeout

Sometimes it's useful to call async methods and be able to stop waiting after a given timeout period. Unfortunately there's no native support on Task to provide this. In this short post I show how you can simulate timeouts and provide a couple of helper methods to make the process generically available.

Getting the ASP.NET Core Server Hosting Urls at Startup and in Requests

Ever need to retrieve an ASP.NET application's hosting Urls? There are million ways to set these URLs but there's no easy fixed location where you can pick the addresses up from. Instead you have to go through a bit of a dance, and use one of two approaches depending on whether you need the addresses during startup or inside of a request.