The .NET News Daily Issue #29

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

Author

Jasen Fici
September 18, 2024

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.’ – Wayne Gretzky. Midweek is here, and it’s time to take your shot with today’s .NET insights. Whether you’re pushing through a tough project or fine-tuning your skills, today’s edition is your playbook for the win.

Today’s Articles

Optimizing Dependency Injection for High Concurrency in C#

Dependency Injection Performance Optimization in High-Concurrency Scenarios

Building Robust API Clients with ✅Refit REST Library in C#

Refit is a powerful REST client library for .NET that simplifies building API clients by automatically generating boilerplate code for…

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The Builder Pattern in .NET: A Comprehensive Guide

Introduction

Why Caching is Critical for ASP.NET Core Applications

Boosting performance and scalability of ASP.NET Core applications by incorporating caching.

How C# Dictionary Actually Works

Dictionary<TKey, TValue> is a very popular data structure in C# and a popular choice for interview questions. I've used Dictionary a…

Boosting .NET Performance: Dependency Injection Do’s and Don’ts for Memory and Connections

Introduction: Why Dependency Injection is Not Just About Code Structure

Creating and Running a .NET API in Docker

In this post, I will demonstrate something quite simple that will greatly facilitate the development and testing of .NET applications on…

Managing TaskCancellationTokens in a central service in ASP.NET

In async code it is very common to pass a CancellationToken to the method that is being awaited. This allows the caller to cancel the operation if it is no longer needed. But this will lead to some ceremonial code that is repeated in every method. In this article I will show you how to manage CancellationToken in a central service in ASP.NET.

POCO to Dictionary Conversion Techniques in C#

This article explores five methods for converting a C# POCO to a dictionary using reflection, LINQ, JSON libraries, and ExpandoObject, comparing their performance through Benchmark.NET to find the best approach.

Developer of The Week

TIm Heuer

.NET | Visual Studio | Azure Product at Microsoft / Cyclist

.NET Library of The Week

Polly is a library I never thought I needed, until I definitely needed it once. Now I can’t imagine writing server apps without it. If you haven’t done a deep dive into Polly, you gotta turn that corner.

GitHub - App-vNext/Polly

Polly is a .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library that allows developers to express policies such as Retry, Circuit Breaker, Timeout, Bulkhead Isolation, and Fallback in a fluent and ...