The .NET News Daily Issue #299

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

In the middle of this bustling workweek, it’s Wednesday—a day with its own brand of creativity. Just like that classic muscle car you’ve kept in the garage, ready to roar to life, today’s .NET newsletter is charged up with insights that promise to rev up your development engines. This eclectic mix of articles is finely tuned to fuel your curiosity and expertise, taking you from code crawlers to runtime rockstars. Hop in, and give your projects the nitro boost they deserve!

Today's Articles

Optimizing Array Performance in .NET: Getting the Most from ArrayPool

https://dotnettips.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/optimizing-array-performance-in-net-getting-the-most-from-arraypool/

ArrayPool optimizes memory usage by providing a thread-safe pool of reusable arrays, significantly reducing allocations and garbage collection pressure, especially in high-performance scenarios. It's ...

How to Implement an LRU Cache with O(1) Operations

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/how-to-implement-an-lru-cache-with-o1-operations/

Learn how to implement an LRU (Least Recently Used) cache with O(1) time complexity for get and put operations. This guide provides a clear explanation of the theory, data structures (HashMap and Doub...

ASP.NET Web.Config: Redirects, Security, and URL Rewriting Explained

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/blogs/asp-net-webconfig-redirects-security-and-url-rewriting-explained

Master ASP.NET Web.config: redirects, security, URL rewriting, custom errors, and connection strings. Optimize your web app's configuration & security!

Classes and Objects in C#: Building Blocks of OOP

https://medium.com/@sweetondonie/classes-and-objects-in-c-building-blocks-of-oop-866d41df461a

When I first learned about classes and objects in C#, the explanation I got was: “A class is a blueprint, and an object is an instance of…

Best-practice architecture for .NET Core projects

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/best-practice-architecture-for-net-core-projects/

Explore best-practice .NET Core architectures: Clean, Hexagonal, and Onion. Learn how to build maintainable, testable, and scalable applications by decoupling infrastructure and focusing on domain-dri...

How to Delete a Particular Item from an Array

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/how-to-delete-a-particular-item-from-an-array/

Learn the safest and most efficient ways to delete items from Python arrays, avoiding costly errors. This guide uses a real-world insurance claims scenario to illustrate the dangers of improper deleti...

🔑 Cheatsheet: Azure Service Bus vs Event Grid vs Event Hub

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/cheatsheet-azure-service-bus-vs-event-grid-vs-event-hub/

Confused about Azure Service Bus, Event Grid, and Event Hub? This cheatsheet provides a clear comparison of these Azure services. Learn when to use each based on messaging patterns, delivery guarantee...

SignalR using Blazor

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/signalr-using-blazor/

Learn how to integrate SignalR with Blazor for real-time web applications. This guide covers both Blazor WebAssembly (hosted) and Blazor Server, providing code snippets for chat applications, server p...

Master Zero-Allocation Programming: The Ultimate Guide to Span and Memory in C# — To Read

https://medium.com/@hpultimatemedia/master-zero-allocation-programming-the-ultimate-guide-to-span-t-and-memory-t-in-c-to-read-318c5da9d31c

Unlock the secrets of high-performance, zero-allocation programming in .NET and revolutionize your application’s memory efficiency

Have You Seen .NET 10 Yet?

https://medium.com/inside-the-if/have-you-seen-net-10-yet-58f4bf661025

Pragmatic prep and dev tips Continue reading on Inside the IF »

A Beginner-Friendly Guide to .NET Reflection (With Practical Use Cases)

https://thelifesyntax.medium.com/a-beginner-friendly-guide-to-net-reflection-with-practical-use-cases-2f243e352f8f

.NET Reflection. Its one of those topics in .NET that most developers have heard of, many have used it indirectly, but few feels confident…

Rock Your Code: Coding Standards for Microsoft .NET (20th Anniversary Edition)

https://dotnettips.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/rock-your-code-coding-standards-for-microsoft-net-20th-anniversary-edition/

The 20th Anniversary Edition of Rock Your Code: Coding Standards for Microsoft .NET, authored by David McCarter, is now available on Amazon. This comprehensive guide offers updated standards for .NET ...

Understanding C# Generics: Learn How to Build Reusable and Type-Safe Code

https://medium.com/programming-with-c/understanding-c-generics-learn-how-to-build-reusable-and-type-safe-code-bed5c7fd0ab7

Imagine you’re organizing your kitchen. You have different containers for different items — one for pasta, another for rice, and yet… Continue reading on Programming with C# »

Clean Code Principles for .NET and React

https://medium.com/@karthikns999/clean-code-principles-for-net-and-react-22761ac1cb64

Writing maintainable, scalable code across both stacks

Optimizing Entity Framework Core: Performance Tips Every Developer Should Know

https://medium.com/@kittikawin_ball/optimizing-entity-framework-core-performance-tips-every-developer-should-know-92a930361afe

Practical EF Core performance checklist: Key techniques every .NET

5 .NET Concurrency Patterns That Actually Scale in Production

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/5-net-concurrency-patterns-that-actually-scale-in-production-37823cad3c4b

Most .NET apps don’t fail from CPU limits, they fail from bad concurrency. Here are 5 patterns that actually scale in production. Continue reading on Level Up Coding »

.NET Conf 2025 is coming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aCrYQKCv0E

7 Surprisingly Simple Lessons I Learned Designing Aggregate Roots in .NET

https://medium.com/@michaelmaurice410/7-surprisingly-simple-lessons-i-learned-designing-aggregate-roots-in-net-4231d53a73da

When I first stumbled into the world of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Clean Architecture, I felt like I’d walked into a PhD lecture…

Visual Studio 2026 vs. Visual Studio 2022: A Practitioner’s Upgrade Analysis

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/visual-studio-2026-vs-visual-studio-2022-a-practitioners-upgrade-analysis/

Visual Studio 2026 vs. 2022: An in-depth upgrade analysis for practitioners. Explore AI integration, performance enhancements, and cloud development features. Discover whether the move to Visual Studi...

Top 10 .NET Interview Questions — Part-2

https://medium.com/@yadav.pyooja1999/top-10-net-interview-questions-part-2-17bdd467cbea

it’s about showing your depth in architecture, design, and problem-solving.

C# 14 Extension Members: A Deep Dive Into Power, Patterns, and Pitfalls

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/csharp-14-c-sharp-14-extension-members-a-deep-dive-into-power-patterns-and-pitfal/

C# 14 introduces extension members, expanding the capabilities of extension methods to include properties, indexers, operators, and events. This feature enhances API design by allowing developers to e...

Parallel Processing in .NET Core: Choosing Between Parallel.ForEach, Task.Run, and Task.WhenAll

https://medium.com/@shivamgupta0240/parallel-processing-in-net-core-choosing-between-parallel-foreach-task-run-and-task-whenall-fd76073e38cc

Understanding the subtle differences between Parallel.ForEach, Task.Run, and Task.WhenAll is crucial for writing efficient, scalable, and…

Encapsulation in C#: Keeping Data Safe and Code Clean

https://medium.com/@sweetondonie/encapsulation-in-c-keeping-data-safe-and-code-clean-ddd8d7bdab78

When I started learning C#, one thing confused me a lot: why not just make everything public? I mean, if I can access variables directly…