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Streamlining Your NuGet Package Versions
Kyle McMaster
May 26, 2022
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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Getting Started With Specifications
Kyle McMaster
May 13, 2022
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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Getting Started With Ardalis.Result
Kyle McMaster
April 18, 2022
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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Structured Logging with Serilog and App Insights
Eric Fleming
February 18, 2022
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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Persisting a Smart Enum with Entity Framework Core
Kyle McMaster
February 10, 2022
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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Extending Guard Clauses
Eric Fleming
February 03, 2022
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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Getting Started With Guard Clauses
Eric Fleming
January 27, 2022
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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Localization in ASP.NET Core APIs
Steve Smith
January 25, 2022
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…
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