The .NET News Daily Issue #7

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

Author

Jasen Fici
August 19, 2024

Happy Monday everyone! Anyone working on side projects over the weekend?

Starting out our second week of awesome .NET articles. My list of sources is filling up with more being added every day. I’m also rebuilding the https://dotnetnews.co site to actually publish the newsletter daily. There’s a bunch of RSS handshaking 🤝 going on here..

As I said all last week, please throw any suggestions my way on how I can make this better or tell me what you would like to see more of.

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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

📰 So you want to play traffic cop with HTTP requests in ASP.NET Core huh:

Create a Custom Middleware Component in ASP.NET Core

This guide covers defining, implementing, and integrating middleware, allowing you to intercept and manipulate HTTP requests and responses effectively for custom functionality and performance improvements.

📰 So you're telling me everyone wants this elusive Full-Stack wizard with barely any experience:

What is .NET Full-Stack Developer? — All About .NET Full-Stack Developer Lifecycle

A company is looking for a full-stack dot Net Developer with 1–2 years of experience, and another company is looking for the same guy with…

📰 Trying to wrap your head around the Liskov Substitution Principle is like trying to untangle headphone wires with C#:

SOLID Principles In C# - Liskov Substitution Principle

C# is an object-oriented programming language. These days whenever you talk about object-oriented programming you hear the acronym, SOLID. These are five design principles introduced by Michael Feathers to make our object-oriented applications easy to understand and maintain.

📰 Step up your data structure game and get cozy with the Hashtable probably the OG of key-value pairs:

C# Hashtable Class: Explained with Examples (2024)

C# has gifted developers with many data structures, but for certain scenarios, nothing comes close to the efficiency of the Hashtable class. Dip your toes in,

📰 If you love .NET 9 and AI productivity just wait till you see what Visual Studio 17.12 has in store:

First preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 with .NET 9 - Visual Studio Blog

Explore the first preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 with full support for .NET 9. Enhance your development with new AI-driven productivity features, streamlined cloud-native app development, and performance improvements. Download now!

📰 Brace yourself for this one C# pros sharing code with Service Classes will make you question your life choices:

Sharing code using Service Classes in C#

This article looks at how dependency injection in C# complicates using static methods for tasks like email validation.

📰 If you are tired of manually building your nuget packages then GitHub Actions might be your new best friend:

GitHub Actions — Build and Publish a nuget package for .NET

Automate the process of building and publishing a .NET project as a NuGet package using GitHub Actions

📰 Who needs a local server when you have NGrok turning your localhost into a public playground for webhooks:

Tiny C# code to test webhooks with NGrok

TL;DR; Here is the github repo: you need to test webhooks, it can be sometimes awkward, since you have to deploy your webhook handling code to a server, and once there, you can’t debug it. Ru…

📰 Get ready for three days of free virtual developer bliss at .NET Conf 2024 long live .NET 9:

.NET Conf 2024 – Celebrating the Release of .NET 9! – Save the Date! - .NET Blog

Announcing .NET Conf 2024 - a free, three-day virtual developer event that celebrates the release of .NET 9.

📰 Ever wondered how to fit your life into a struct heres a riveting tale of coordinates in C#:

Creating Types in C# — Structs

In C#, structs are value types that are typically used to encapsulate small groups of related variables, such as the coordinates of a…

📰 Time to switch things up and learn ASP.NET Core API CRUD with Postgres instead of the usual Microsoft suspects:

ASP.NET Core API CRUD With Postgres

When we create an application with .NET, we tend to use the Microsoft tech stack: Visual Studio IDE, Microsoft SQL Server, Windows…

📰 If you're new to ASP.NET Core Web this is the guide that's smoother than my morning coffee:

Modern ASP.NET Web Api: Part I

The main goal of this posts series is to guide the reader across many topics related to implementing softwares using an ASP.NET Core Web…

📰 Get ready to move your .NET apps to Azure cloud without pulling your hair out:

How to migrate .NET applications to Azure ?

One of key strategies in cloud implementation is to migrate existing applications to the cloud. 

📰 Ready to impress your friends with your new mastery of ReadOnlySpan.Split in .NET 9:

.NET 9-ReadOnlySpan<char>.Split()

Introduction