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December 08, 2023Steve Smith
This article is part of the 2023 C# Christmas Calendar available here! Primary Constructors Last month, C# 12 introduced a new feature called Primary…
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December 05, 2023Scott DePouw
There 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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December 01, 2023Kyle McMaster
AutoFixture is a library for .NET that can help you generate data for your tests. It can reduce the amount of code needed to Arrange (the first A in the style…
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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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October 27, 2023Sarah Dutkiewicz
When writing tests, you may find it tedious to create test objects. There are design patterns that we can use to make it easier to create test objects. I want…
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August 17, 2023Sarah Dutkiewicz
As you move from Moq to NSubstitute, you may wonder how they differ code-wise. In a recent lunch-n-learn discussion, Scott DePouw walked us through how the code…
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August 07, 2023The Strengths and Benefits of the Fractional Software Architect Model When we talk about innovation in the tech industry, it’s often tied to the newest…
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August 04, 2023In an ever-evolving digital landscape, businesses large and small often face challenges keeping pace with technological advancements. Sometimes, the gap between…
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July 10, 2023Sarah Dutkiewicz
We help some of our clients with migrating from .NET Framework to .NET Core apps. The .NET Upgrade Assistant can assist in the transition. One of the approaches…
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June 09, 2023Sarah Dutkiewicz
Have you checked in code that’s misaligned and not formatted cleanly? Have you checked in code with broken tests? What if there was a way that you could have a…
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June 07, 2023Sarah Dutkiewicz
Have you ever looked at code and felt overwhelmed by the inconsistencies in curly brace placement? Have you felt exhausted trying to follow the inconsistent…
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May 09, 2023Sarah Dutkiewicz
There are projects that developers have nicknamed “Frankenstein” or “a monster”. These nicknames are applied to software applications that are hard to maintain…
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May 02, 2023Sarah Dutkiewicz
Note: This post is part of the SciFiDevCon 2023: May the Fourth Be With You event. Ardalis and Sadukie happen to be a part of the Stir Trek planning committee…
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April 14, 2023Sarah Dutkiewicz
If you are wanting to work with EF Core with Postgres, you may run into a problem where the casing of your tables may cause issues for running SQL queries…
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March 31, 2023Sarah Dutkiewicz
As March comes to an end, I wanted to feature someone in honor of Women’s History Month, one of the women behind the L of SOLID principles. Dr. Barbara Liskov…
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March 20, 2023Philippe Vaillancourt
LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is a widely used feature in .NET, and it’s great to see that it’s still being built upon and modernized. Most of the changes…
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March 16, 2023Sarah Dutkiewicz
Naming things is hard, especially if there are multiple words that make up that name. Remembering names of naming conventions can also be hard. However…
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March 03, 2023Philippe Vaillancourt
Code coverage analysis is a useful tool for any developer looking to build high-quality, maintainable code. It helps identify gaps in your test coverage and…
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March 01, 2023Sarah Dutkiewicz
While I was looking at the Ardalis.GuardClauses repo, I noticed that the build process was failing. Talking with Steve, I noticed that the build was failing on…
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February 17, 2023Philippe Vaillancourt
In today’s digital age, having a website or a web application has become a necessity for businesses and individuals alike. But deploying a web application can…
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February 10, 2023Philippe Vaillancourt
In this quick tutorial, you will learn how to run and debug your application in Linux using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and Visual Studio Code. The…
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January 09, 2023Philippe Vaillancourt
Compression can be a useful tool for reducing the size of data transmitted over a network or stored on disk. The .NET framework includes several classes that…
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December 22, 2022Kyle McMaster
This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar 2022 hosted by Sergey Tihon. The goal of this post is to provide a glimpse into the journey of two C# developers…
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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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October 03, 2022Philippe Vaillancourt
In this article we’ll show how structs and classes have different behaviors when it comes to constructors and why you need to be careful when using a struct to…
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September 23, 2022Kyle McMaster
Fluent Assertions is a library used to make C# test code more readable and expressive. This frees your tests from syntax heavy assertion statements and allows…
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September 13, 2022Scott DePouw
This 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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September 06, 2022Philippe Vaillancourt
I recently tried a code kata that Steve Smith posted in our devBetter Discord server. The kata is essentially a modelling exercise. The goal is to model a…
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August 23, 2022Philippe Vaillancourt
If you’re coming from another programming language like JavaScript, Rust or Go, you may be familiar with the function found in the standard library of those…
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August 23, 2022Philippe Vaillancourt
So you’ve set up some benchmarks for some performance critical piece of code in your application. Perhaps you’ve even followed along with my Benchmarking in…
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August 23, 2022Kyle McMaster
In the latest release of Ardalis.Result, a community requested feature was added to convert results from one type to another. This allows for flexible…
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August 18, 2022Philippe Vaillancourt
In this article I will show, step by step, how to set up a .NET benchmarking project. It is a cleaned up transcript from a video I made. We’re gonna start with…
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August 16, 2022Scott DePouw
This 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…
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August 09, 2022Steve Smith
ASP.NET Core has great support for automated integration testing. The docs provide everything you need to get started, and there are many community articles…
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July 13, 2022Kyle McMaster
I was recently going through the process of installing the developer tooling I use on a fresh, new laptop. I installed the usual suspects like Visual Studio and…
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May 26, 2022Kyle McMaster
Earlier this year Microsoft announced a new way to manage dependencies in .NET applications called Central Package Management. This new way of managing…
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May 13, 2022Kyle McMaster
Specification is a pattern in Domain Driven Design that helps encapsulate domain knowledge in a reusable way. The term Specification was coined by Martin Fowler…
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April 18, 2022Kyle McMaster
A result is an abstraction that allows developers to express the value as well as the outcome of an operation. A basic result can represent whether an operation…
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February 18, 2022Eric Fleming
Monitoring and Logging are critical pieces to the overall health and success of an application. Logging, which we’ll be specifically focusing on in this article…
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February 10, 2022Kyle McMaster
A Smart Enum is an enhancement of the C# enum that provides a strongly typed and object oriented approach to enum types. Smart Enums can be used when a enum…
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February 03, 2022Eric Fleming
In a previous article we covered Getting Started with Guard Clauses. We introduced what guard clauses were, when they should be used as well as the Ardalis…
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January 27, 2022Eric Fleming
A guard clause is a software pattern that simplifies complex functions by “failing fast”, checking for invalid inputs up front and immediately failing if any…
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January 25, 2022Steve Smith
Localization, the process of providing information in multiple languages as specified by the user, is a pretty common requirement for web apps. ASP.NET Core has…
