The .NET News Daily Issue #179

Mastering Health Checks in .NET Core 8: A Complete Guide with Real-World Examples

https://medium.com/@ashokreddy343/mastering-health-checks-in-net-core-8-a-complete-guide-with-real-world-examples-e52b47dea317

Introduction

An Efficient Way To Process Large Files

https://learn-code-learn.medium.com/an-efficient-way-to-process-large-files-d64144712c97

While handling large data set that would take a long time to load and consumes lot of memory. Instead of loading large data set in memory… Continue reading on Nerd For Tech »

15 C# Shorthand Techniques Every Developer Should Know to Boost Productivity

https://medium.com/@ashokreddy343/15-c-shorthand-techniques-every-developer-should-know-to-boost-productivity-09543a724d48

Introduction

Chain of Responsibility Design Pattern in .NET

https://medium.com/teknopost/chain-of-responsibility-design-pattern-in-net-f7aed0b1d2ca

When many checks or steps need to be done in sequence to get something done, this is often the first thing that comes to mind: Continue reading on TeknoPost »

The Ultimate 18-Week Roadmap to Becoming a Senior Backend Engineer (C# Edition)

https://medium.com/@shadeed.1990/the-ultimate-18-week-roadmap-to-becoming-a-senior-backend-engineer-c-edition-0e0c9f76822a

Are you a mid-level C# developer ready to level up to a Senior Backend Engineer? This 18-week roadmap is your realistic, project-driven…

MediatR Alternative — Wolverine

https://thecodeman.net/posts/mediatr-alternative-wolverine

MediatR will soon require a commercial license for some usage.

Middleware in ASP.NET Core

https://medium.com/we-are-developers/middleware-in-asp-net-core-c94d82dc3ef6

Visualizing the Request-Response Journey Continue reading on .NET|C# Hub »

nameof in C#: The Tiny Keyword That Solves Big Problems

https://medium.com/@nagarajvela/nameof-in-c-the-tiny-keyword-that-solves-big-problems-28b767343f25

Explore clever ways to use C#’s nameof for UI, serialization, and debugging. Continue reading on Level Up Coding »

The true power of the Decorator Pattern | How to build a lightweight service in ASP.NET Core

https://medium.com/@denmaklucky/the-true-power-of-the-decorator-pattern-how-to-build-a-lightweight-service-in-asp-net-core-0737478a804b

Let’s say you have a UsersService that works with a User entity. The entity is just a class with an identifier and a string property — in…

DevNetNoord Talks

https://blog.wildermuth.com/2025/04/13/devnetnoord-talks/

In this talk, I show how Nullable Reference Types work and why I think it’s important for many projects to switch over to them. You can see my code and slides here if you missed it:

C# Output: How to Talk to the Console (Properly)

https://medium.com/@fulton_shaun/c-output-how-to-talk-to-the-console-properly-82d9e10e7b89

Understanding console output is step one to debugging, user feedback, and interactive programs.

Building a Stock Market API with FastAPI and Python

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/building-a-stock-market-api-with-fastapi-and-python/

In this tutorial, we'll walk through the process of creating a backend API for a stock market application using Python and the FastAPI framework.

Async vs Sync

https://medium.com/write-a-catalyst/async-vs-sync-034b8d4f266a

Transforming C# Development Forever Continue reading on Write A Catalyst »

AI isn’t Ready to Directly Replace Programmers (April 2025)

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/ai-isnt-ready-to-directly-replace-programmers-april-2025/

AI tools are evolving fast, but in April 2025, experts agree that AI still isn't ready to fully replace programmers. While models like GPT-4.1 can assist with coding, they lack the deep problem-solvin...

.NET 10 Preview 3 is now available!

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-10-preview-3/

Find out about the new features in .NET 10 Preview 3 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, C#, .NET MAUI, and more! The post .NET 10 Preview 3 is now available! appeared firs...

C# Singleton Pattern: One Instance to Rule Them All

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/c-sharp-singleton-pattern-one-instance-to-rule-them-all/

The Singleton Design Pattern in C# ensures only one instance of a class exists and provides a global access point. It's ideal for managing shared resources like logging, configuration, or database con...

Building a Face Detection System with .NET 9

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/building-a-face-detection-system-with-net-9/

Build a real-time face detection app using .NET 9 and OpenCV via Emgu.CV. This project leverages a webcam and Haar cascades to detect faces, ideal for learning computer vision basics.

Calling MCP Servers in C# with Microsoft.Extensions.AI

https://markheath.net/post/2025/4/14/calling-mcp-server-microsoft-extensions-ai

I've updated my demo application to support calling MCP tools, following the techniques demonstrated in Microsoft's Chat With Tools sample. I posted recently about how to allow LLMs to call tools usin...

C# Made Me Like Programming — Here’s Why

https://medium.com/@fulton_shaun/c-made-me-like-programming-heres-why-fd4e8db4457f

How one language changed the way I see code

The Only 3 Videos You Need to Get Started with MCP!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRfOiB0Im64

Vibe-coding for security

https://textslashplain.com/2025/04/15/vibe-coding-for-security/

Recently, there's been a surge in the popularity of trojan clipboard attacks whereby the attacker convinces the user to carry their attack payload across a security boundary and compromise the device....