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Introduction

Device.Net is a cross-platform framework that attempts to put a layer over the top of USB and Hid. It runs on Android, UWP, .NET Framework and...

The C# Compiler’s name is Roslyn. Roslyn has a very large set of analyzers to check the quality of your code, but you must turn...

You’re probably here because your business has a legacy codebase, and you need to upgrade it. You’re not alone, and almost every business goes through...

This article gives you a toolset for stopping NullReferenceExceptions in .NET code. The article centers around Nullable Reference Types (NRT), a feature that Microsoft added...

RestClient.Net makes HTTP calls in .NET easy. Send the request body as a strongly typed object, and get back a strongly typed object. You can...

Records are a new feature in C# 9. Records are special classes that borrow from Structs in that they have value-based equality. You could look at them as a...

ASP.NET Core is the most up-to-date Microsoft technology for building web apps. You can build Web APIs for your SPA front-end or traditional web-apps in...

Device.Net is a cross-platform .NET framework for talking to connected devices such as USB, Serial Port and Hid devices. It aims to make device communication...

Source Link allows you to publish debuggable NuGet packages. Source Link adds debug symbols to compiled code that point back to your Git repository. That...

.NET Standard is a .NET formal specification or API contract that is available across many .NET implementations. It exists because there are many .NET implementations on...

The Observer Pattern is at the core of reactive programming, and observables come in two flavors: hot and cold. This is not explicit when you...

F# is a functional programming language that compiles to .NET Intermediate Language (IL). C# is becoming a more functional programming language. The latest version of...

The Null Object Pattern is a pattern that uses objects with null behavior instead of performing null checks throughout the codebase. ILogger and ILoggerFactory are...

The INotifyPropertyChanged changed interface is at the heart of XAML apps and has been a part of the .NET ecosystem since the early days of...

You can move Uno Platform pages and other code into a multi-targeted library that you can reference from the Uno Platform head projects. This is...

The first Uno Platform Course is live! Over the last few months, I’ve been busily preparing material and editing video for the first Uno Platform...

Entity Framework Core (EF) converts expressions into SQL at runtime. In earlier versions, it was straight forward to get the SQL. In Entity Framework Core...

Blazor is a new Single Page Application (SPA) technology by Microsoft. It is a comparable technology to React, Angular, and Vue.js but uses C# instead...

ILogger is at the heart of the ASP.NET Core infrastructure and works well when you use it correctly. If you approach it the wrong way,...

The options for building cross-platform phone, desktop, and web-apps with C# are expanding. I previously wrote about Uno Platform, Xamarin.Forms, and Avalonia UI. The recent Microsoft Build...

RestClient.Net is a cross-platform rest-client for .NET Core, .NET Framework, iOS, Android, WASM and UWP. It puts a wrapper over the .NET HttpClient API and allows...

Blazor is a new Microsoft technology that allows developers to write code for browsers in C#. This article compares Blazor to three other common SPA...

Developers are usually encouraged to do dependency injection with interfaces. Some developers don’t know that they can do dependency injection with delegates, and there are...

Blazor is Microsoft’s latest Single Page Application (SPA) framework, which is C# based and renders to the browser HTML DOM. Blazor comes in two flavors:...

Signing an assembly ensures that the consumer knows its origin and uniquely identifies the component. It makes the physical DLL file tamper-proof. This tutorial will...

The System.Text.Json namespace provides high-performance, low-allocating, and standards-compliant capabilities to process JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), which includes serializing objects to JSON text and deserializing JSON...

Using Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf) for serialization over a Web API (or REST API) is simple. Most developers use JSON as the go-to transfer protocol for...

REST Client Framework for all .NET Platforms

Every system needs a framework. The main hubs that a framework should cover are UI/UX, database, and logic. These are the indispensable parts of the...

Improving a codebase can be a difficult task. The larger the codebase, the more difficult it becomes to find and fix poor code manually. When...

Introduction

There are various ways connected devices communicate with your computer. One of the oldest ways is via the Serial Port. In some ways, serial port access...

Device.Net 3.0 has been released. Device.Net is a framework for communicating with connected devices. Along with Device.Net Usb.Net, and Hid.Net 3.0 were also released. These...

RestClient.Net is a simple wrapper for HttpClient. It adds strong typing to REST calls and speeds up writing basic Http Request/Response operations. WebAssembly (Wasm) is...

An app should throw exceptions when something exceptional happens. However, developers should design apps and APIs so that under regular use, exceptions do not occur. Exceptions...

xUnit has a quirky system for consuming test data. Strongly typed test data can be specified with the MemberData attribute and the Theory attribute but...

WebAssembly may be the most exciting technology for C# developers to emerge in recent times. Browser based applications have been developed in JavaScript, or languages...

gRPC is a modern open source RPC framework created by Google. It is based on Google’s modern Protocol Buffer serialization engine but is not tied...

Several UI technologies can be used to build Cross-Platform apps in C# or other .NET based languages such as Visual Basic (VB). This article looks...

Edit: There is a new article that replaces these two articles and uses the more modern editor config format. These two articles are still useful...

Edit: There is a new article that replaces these two articles and uses the more modern editor config format. These two articles are still useful...

Delving in to the world of crypto hardwarewallets has led me deep in to the rabbit hole of USB and Hid  programming. I didn’t want...

Edit: this library has undergone multiple iterations since this early blog post. It is no longer in beta, and has been moved to GitHub. Check...