csharp

Introduction

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...