Scott DePouw
Senior Consultant
Scott has over a decade of professional software development and consulting experience working with a plethora of technologies and frameworks. He's a strong proponent and practitioner of SOLID programming principles and test-driven development.
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February 18, 2025C#, like most programming languages, has a plethora of features and functionality that would take a long time to fully encompass. I’ve been using C…
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January 20, 2025The out-of-the-box method of performing assertions in unit tests works well, but there are better, more fluid ways of writing assertions. Rather than writing…
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December 09, 2024Yes, it is in fact possible to test randomness within your application! Like with so many other facets of your code, it’s important too. Whether you’re making a…
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November 21, 2024Occasionally you’ll find yourself wanting to query data from a database. I know I do! Sometimes that involves grouping your data. Sometimes you want to group…
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October 29, 2024I was working with another developer the other day, using C# records. When using a record, you may have seen syntax similar to primary constructors to declare…
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September 09, 2024For a long time, I’ve been used to creating regular expressions in C# like this: I declare it because I know it’ll never change or require any dynamic values…
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August 20, 2024This is part of my blog post series on AutoMapper. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 The series returns! Part 5 of my AutoMapper series is brought to you today thanks…
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July 16, 2024Consulting remotely for multiple clients presents many unique challenges not seen in other areas of software development. Within the scope of things probably…
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June 17, 2024.NET’s abstraction finally absolves us of the need to wrap and friends with a custom interface. I’ve used it a lot for my date/time abstraction needs and have…
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May 13, 2024You’re being responsible! You want to ensure that merges into your stable source control branch are safe, so you gate any merges with a build, establishing…
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April 16, 2024Dependencies on external resources can make code difficult to test or maintain. This is hardly a hot take. Recently, a user in the devBetter Discord server had…
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March 25, 2024Pull requests, or PRs, are a functional requirement in any cooperative development environment (and single development environment, in my humble opinion). They…
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February 19, 2024Every now and then I need to do some math in my code, for some required business logic rule or other purpose. As an easy example, let’s apply a discount to a…
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January 25, 2024Lately I’ve been tinkering with game development. It’s an aspect of software development that isn’t part of my job and I’ve always had a hankering to produce a…
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December 19, 2023Refit exposes several settings and options. One such option enables the ability to add bearer tokens (any headers, really) to outgoing requests. To get this…
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December 11, 2023When we got started with Refit in my previous post I left a question open: If we wanted detailed information on HTTP traffic in Refit, how would we go about it…
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December 05, 2023There are lots of ways to work with in .NET. When working with external APIs, I’ve recently discovered a rather useful mechanism that lets me set up a named…
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November 29, 2023If you’re like me, you’ve needed to test business logic surrounding the current time. You’ve probably run into the classic case of having a embedded directly…
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December 14, 2022Unit Testing Validation of Annotated Models It’s no secret that I like to unit test my code. The more I can decouple from dependencies and isolate, the faster I…
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December 12, 2022This is part of my blog post series on AutoMapper. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 This was something I stumbled across in my work lately, which spurred this unexpected…
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September 13, 2022This is the third part of my blog post series on AutoMapper. First part here! Second part here! AutoMapper Allows Self-Mappings Without Map Creation Typically…
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August 16, 2022This is the second part of my blog post series on AutoMapper. Check out the first part here! AutoMapper: A Very Testable Tool One of the many reasons I use…
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August 10, 2022Over the years, one of the tools I end up setting up / using / maintaining a lot has been AutoMapper. For the uninitiated, AutoMapper is a tool used to do a…
