Putting the Fun in C# Local Functions
Many popular languages support the use of local functions and in C# 7, support for them was announced with relatively little fanfare. As someone that would »
Happy New ... C# 9 Features!
As one of my languages du jour, I've always had a fondness for C#. It was one of the first high-level languages that I learned in »
Smooth Transactions with TransactionScope
In the real world, we deal with transactions all the time, even though we rarely think of them as such. Things like driving to work or »
Making Your .NET Application Less Quirky
I'd like to believe that as developers, we are always looking for those silver-bullet type solutions. The ones where we just add a single line of »
Hello XML, My Old Friend; I've Come To Encode You Again.
Depending on how long you've been a developer, XML might be a term that sounds totally foreign. For others, it might bring back long repressed memories »
Knowing When to Reflect With Caller Info Attributes
If you've been around C# long enough, you've probably had a need at one time or another to figure out some information about code that's being »
Hands-free Security Scanning within .NET Applications
I'm sure if you follow any news sources at all, you see countless hacks, breaches, and leaks from various big-name companies which you might assume would »
NodeServices: Where Javascript and .NET Meet Back on the Other Side
Javascript is everywhere. It's in the browser, on the server, and it's climbing through your windows and snatching your people up. And because it's a fairly »
Options for Configuring ASP.NET Core Application Settings
With all of the controversy around project configurations within .NET Core, one thing that has managed to be consistently JSON-based has been the use of application »
How the Microsoft Bot Framework Changed Where My Friends and I Eat: Part 1
Bots are everywhere nowadays, and we interact with them all of the time. From interactions on our phones, in chat rooms, in GitHub discussions, and Slack »