Category: .NET Core Blog

FusionCache v2 is the very first production-ready implementation of Microsoft HybridCache, including Microsoft’s own which is currently still in preview. … Continue reading Implementing HybridCache with FusionCache v2 in .NET 9

I’m guessing you know what Scalar is if you’ve arrived here so let’s just look at the code to implement … Continue reading How to install Scalar in .NET 9

Swashbuckle.AspNetCore (including SwaggerUI) has been removed from the Web API template in .NET 9. Since the Swashbuckle project is being … Continue reading How to add SwaggerUI back into a .NET 9 Web API project

This enables comparisons of numbers based on their numerical value instead of lexicographical order. In the example below with Ordinal … Continue reading Numerical StringComparer coming in .NET 10

IOptions<T> gives us compile-time safety and eliminates magic strings.Simple example below : Click on the image for a larger view … Continue reading ASP.NET IOptions pattern example

Since .NET 7, ASP.NET has built-in middleware for rate limiting our API endpoints. Once we understand the different rate limiting … Continue reading ASP.NET Rate Limiting middleware simple examples

Safia from Microsoft posted this on BlueSky recently … This is great news but based on what she also posted … Continue reading .NET 10 will support OpenAPI v3.1

I posted my previous simple string concatenation benchmark results where I was concatenating my name with spacer on Reddit recently. … Continue reading Simple string concatenation using String.Create and other performance sensitive approaches in .NET 8

I post .NET / C# and Visual Studio content on LinkedIn and X/Twitter almost daily. Please consider following me. LinkedIn … Continue reading Please follow me on X/Twitter and LinkedIn for more .NET content

Do we rely too much on third party libraries from NuGet? Are we exposing our clients to risks here by … Continue reading Do .NET developers rely too much on third party libraries from NuGet?

I took this Twitter poll recently to gauge how many devs were thinking of moving away from Moq after the … Continue reading Poll Results : Are many .NET devs moving away from Moq after #moqgate?

Warnings are too easy to ignore. Consider treating all warnings as errors by setting the TreatWarningsAsErrors property to true in … Continue reading How to treat all warnings as compile errors in .NET

To set properties for every project in a directory in a centralized location create a Directory.Build.props file in your solution … Continue reading Share settings across multiple projects using a Directory.Build.props file

I was wondering recently which .NET mocking library is most popular. I suspected Moq but ran a poll to find … Continue reading Poll Results : What .NET mocking library do you use?

Just for fun, I took benchmarks using BenchmarkDotNet to see what’s the fastest out of common ways used to concatenate … Continue reading .NET 8 simple string concatenation benchmarks

C# Tip 💡 ->Did you know LINQ Intersect can be used to find common items between two collections in .NET? … Continue reading Use LINQ Intersect method to find common items in two collections in .NET