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How To Get An Available TCP Port From The Operating System In C# & .NET - Mon, 17 November
How To Execute Database Queries In Parallel In C# & .NET - Sun, 16 November
Beware - Parallel.ForEach And Async Don't Play Well Together - Sat, 15 November
How To Serialize Numbers As Strings Using System.Text.Json In C# & .NET - Fri, 14 November
How To Deserialize Numbers Serialized As Strings Using System.Text.Json In C# & .NET - Thu, 13 November
Using StringSplitOptions.TrimEntries To Split Strings In C# & .NET - Wed, 12 November
C# 14, .NET 10 & Visual Studio 2026 Are Released - Tue, 11 November
Splitting A String Into An Array In C# & .NET - Mon, 10 November
Checking If Collection Enumeration Is Cheap In C# & .NET - Sun, 9 November
Count vs Any To Check A If A Collection Has Elements In C# & .NET - Sat, 8 November
Beware - Missing Serilog Entries On Application Exit - Fri, 7 November
How To Log Complex Objects With Serilog - Thu, 6 November
Beware - Setting A Database Timeout Of 0 Is A Bad Idea - Wed, 5 November
How To Check If You Can Write To A File In C# & .NET - Tue, 4 November
Using The Field Keyword In C# & .NET - Mon, 3 November
Creating Static Extension Properties In C# & .NET - Sun, 2 November
Creating Static Extension Methods In C# & .NET - Sat, 1 November
Writing & Testing Code That Expects The Current Date & Time Using The TimeProvider in C# & .NET - Fri, 31 October
Working With appsettings.json In A Team In C# & .NET - Thu, 30 October
Generating A .NET Friendly .gitignore - Wed, 29 October
Using Extension Members To Add Properties To Types In C# & .NET - Tue, 28 October
Adding Date Computations Support To DateTime In C# & .NET - Mon, 27 October
Getting The Start and End Of The Next Year In C# & .NET - Sun, 26 October
Getting The Start and End Of The Previous Year In C# & .NET - Sat, 25 October
Getting The Start and End Of The Current Year In C# & .NET - Fri, 24 October
Getting The Start and End Of The Next Quarter In C# & .NET - Thu, 23 October
Getting The Start and End Of The Previous Quarter In C# & .NET - Wed, 22 October
Getting The Start and End Of A Quarter In C# & .NET - Tue, 21 October
Custom Sorting To Ignore Articles Like 'A' & 'The' In C# & .NET - Sun, 19 October
Using Trim, TrimStart & TrimEnd In C# & .NET - Sat, 18 October
Serializing Enums With System.Text.Json In C# & .NET - Tue, 14 October
Getting The System Directory In C# & .NET - Sat, 11 October
What Is The Largest Duration A TimeSpan Can Store In C# & .NET - Fri, 10 October
Getting The System Uptime In C# & .NET - Thu, 9 October
Writing To The Windows Event Log In C# & .NET - Wed, 8 October
Getting The Name Of A File Without Its Extension In C# & .NET - Mon, 6 October
How To Unit Test A Class With Options In C# & .NET - Sun, 5 October
Getting A Constant Value From A .NET Executable in PowerShell - Fri, 3 October
Getting The Current Path Of An Executing PowerShell Script - Thu, 2 October
Getting The Time In Different Timezones In C# & .NET - Wed, 1 October
Converting Between Calendars AKA October MOSTLY Has 31 Days - Tue, 30 September
Correctly Getting The Number Of Days In A Month In C# & .NET - Mon, 29 September
Getting The Number Of Days In A Month In C# & .NET - Sun, 28 September
Generating Random Booleans In C# & .NET - Sat, 27 September
Generating Random Unsigned 64 Bit Integers In C# & .NET - Fri, 26 September
Generating Random Unsigned Integers In C# & .NET - Thu, 25 September
Generating Random Values For Other Integral Types In C# & .NET - Wed, 24 September
Generating Random 64 Bit Integers In C# & .NET - Tue, 23 September
About .NET & Support Cycles - Mon, 22 September
Shuffling Arrays In C# & .NET - Sat, 20 September
Restricting Numbers To A Range In C# & .NET - Fri, 19 September
Getting A Temporary File Name in C# & .NET - Thu, 18 September
Documentation Needs Love - Broken Samples - Wed, 17 September
Documentation Needs Love - The Letter vs The Spirit - Tue, 16 September
Documentation Needs Love - Running Samples - Mon, 15 September
Getting The Downloads Location On macOS In C# & .NET - Sun, 14 September
Getting The Downloads Location On Windows In C# & .NET - Sat, 13 September
.NET 10 Release Candidate Is Out - Thu, 11 September
Changing The Decimal Separator In C# & .NET - Wed, 10 September
Why Is September Shortened As Sept And Not Sep - Tue, 9 September
Sep Is The Short Date Format For September. Sometimes - Mon, 8 September
Getting the Version of Kibana Connected in C# & .NET - Sun, 7 September
Getting the Version of ElasticSearch Connected in C# & .NET - Sat, 6 September
Getting the Version of Redis Connected Without Admin Access in C# & .NET - Fri, 5 September
Getting the Version of Redis Connected in C# & .NET - Thu, 4 September
Other RabbitMQ IConnection Server Properties - Wed, 3 September
Getting the Version of RabbitMQ Connected in C# & .NET - Tue, 2 September
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 16 - Testing SMTP Locally Using Mailpit - Sun, 31 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 15 - Sending Calendar Invites Using MailKit - Sat, 30 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 14 - Sending Multiple Format Email Using MailKit - Fri, 29 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 13 - Sending Email With Inline Attachments Using MailKit - Thu, 28 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 12 - Sending Email With Attachments Using MailKit - Wed, 27 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 11 - Sending HTML Email Using MailKit - Tue, 26 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 10 - Sending Plain Text Email Using MailKit - Mon, 25 August
Working With Dates In Multiple Locale Formats Simultaneously - Sat, 23 August
The Difference Between String.Format and ToString - Wed, 20 August
Adding Ordinal Support To DateTime Format Strings In C# & .NET - Tue, 19 August
Displaying Ordinal Words In C# & .NET - Mon, 18 August
Displaying Ordinal Numbers In C# & .NET - Sun, 17 August
Tip - DriveInfo.AvailableFreeSpace vs DriveInfo.TotalFreeSpace - Fri, 15 August
Getting Available Free Space On Drives In C# & .NET - Thu, 14 August
Class That Stores Multiple Named, Typed Generic Lists - Improvement - Wed, 13 August
Class That Stores Multiple Named, Typed Generic Lists - Tue, 12 August
Repeat - xUnit Attribute to Run Tests Multiple Times - Mon, 11 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 7 - Generating Multiple Passwords - Sun, 10 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 6 - Updating Console UI For Memorable Password Generation - Sat, 9 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 5 - Generating Memorable Passwords - Fri, 8 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 4 - Generating Human Readable Passwords - Thu, 7 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 3 - Advanced UI With Spectre.Console - Wed, 6 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 2 - Novice UI With Spectre.Console - Tue, 5 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 1 - Mon, 4 August
Generating A Cryptographically Random String in C# & .NET - Sun, 3 August
Generating A Random String In C# & .NET - Sat, 2 August
Adding Items To An Existing List In C# & .NET - Fri, 1 August
Reclaiming Memory From Lists In C# & .NET - Thu, 31 July
Mutative vs Non-Mutative List Manipulation In C# & .NET - Wed, 30 July
Considerations When Adding Items To A List In C# & .NET - Tue, 29 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 9 - Sending Multiple Format Email Using SMTP - Mon, 28 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 8 - Sending HTML Email Using SMTP - Sun, 27 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 7 - Sending Inline Images Using SMTP - Sat, 26 July
Tip - Auto Fit Columns For DevExpress XtraTreeList - Fri, 25 July
Displaying User-Friendly TimeSpans In C# & .NET - Thu, 24 July
Updating Your Installed .NET Project Templates - Wed, 23 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 6 - Testing SMTP Locally Using PaperCut - Tue, 22 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 5 - Using Google Cloud API - Mon, 21 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 4 - Using Office 365 & MS Graph API - Sun, 20 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 3 - Using Gmail - Sat, 19 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 2 - Delivery - Fri, 18 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 1 - Introduction - Thu, 17 July
Pet Peeve - Properly Pluralizing Counts In C# & .NET - Wed, 16 July
Determining The Number Of Processors In C# & .NET - Tue, 15 July
How to Wait in C# & .NET - Mon, 14 July
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 24 - Google Cloud Storage - Sun, 13 July
Programmatically Checking If There Are Messages In The EasyNetQ Error Queue In C# & .NET - Sat, 12 July
Deleting A RabbitMQ Queue In C# & .NET - Fri, 11 July
Determining The Architecture Of An Emulated 32 Bit Running Process In .NET On Windows - Thu, 10 July
Determining If A Running Process Is Emulated 32 Bit In .NET On Windows - Wed, 9 July
Determining If A Running Process Is 64 Bit In .NET - Tue, 8 July
Disable SSL Certificate Validation in .NET for Specific Requests - Mon, 7 July
Get IP Address Of Web Server From ASP.NET WebAPI EndPoint - Sun, 6 July
Controlling The Casing Of Submitted Request Headers In C# & .NET - Fri, 4 July
Writing Debugger-Friendly Objects in C# & .NET - Thu, 3 July
Quickly generating A Voice Prompt on Windows - Wed, 2 July
Quickly Generating a Voice Prompt on macOS - Tue, 1 July
Overriding Package Versions When Using .NET Centralized Package Management - Sun, 29 June
Connecting to Secured RabbitMQ Over SSL in C# With EasyNetQ - Thu, 26 June
Arithmetic In C# Using Hex Numbers - Tue, 24 June
Interpolating C# Raw String Literals - Mon, 23 June
Locale Considerations When Parsing Dates - Mon, 16 June
Don't Parse - TryParse - Sun, 15 June
F# Discriminated Unions & Their Benefits - Sat, 14 June
Generating and Using Directory.Packages.props file - Fri, 13 June
Generating and Using a Directory.Build.props file - Thu, 12 June
What does EnsureSuccessStatusCode do? - Wed, 11 June
Setting Timeouts for HttpClient Requests - Tue, 10 June
C# Dictionary Usage Optimizations - TryGet - Sun, 8 June
C# Dictionary Usage Optimizations - TryAdd - Sat, 7 June
Required DevExpress References For XtraReports Document Generation And Printing - Fri, 6 June
How to Deserialize JSON Using HttpClient Using C# In .NET - Thu, 5 June
Avoid Noisy Exception Logging - Wed, 4 June
Exposing Collections As Read-Only In C# & .NET - Tue, 3 June
Using the Generic Math Interface in C# & .NET - Mon, 2 June
Swapping Variables in F# - Sun, 1 June
Swapping Variables In C# With ValueTuples - Sat, 31 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 23 - Refactoring Amazon Storage Engine For Initialization - Fri, 30 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 22 - Refactoring Azure Storage Engine For Initialization - Thu, 29 May
Calling Async Methods In Constructors In C# - Wed, 28 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 21 - Testing Amazon S3 Storage Locally - Mon, 26 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 20 - Amazon S3 Storage - Sun, 25 May
Using Tuples in Deconstructors - Sat, 24 May
Not All .NET Exceptions Can Be Caught - The Case Of StackOverflow - Fri, 23 May
About Tuples & Value Tuples - Thu, 22 May
Determining the Operating System SQL Server Is Running On Remotely - Wed, 21 May
Fare thee well, StackOverflow - Mon, 19 May
LINQ Single and First Are Not Interchangeable - Sun, 18 May
Understanding & Managing Nuget Cache Folders - Sat, 17 May
Order of Settings Precedence for .NET Applications - Fri, 16 May
Format Strings for Display of Zeros - Thu, 15 May
Overriding appsettings.json via Environment Variables - Wed, 14 May
Overriding appsettings.json Via Command Line - Tue, 13 May
Setting the Staging & Production Environments During Development - Sun, 11 May
Flexible Leveraging of appsettings.json in .NET Applications - Sat, 10 May
Computing SHA256 & Other Checksums In C# & .NET - Thu, 8 May
Dapper Part 16 - Consideration When Passing Parameters - Wed, 7 May
Tip - Command Text & Stored Procedure Specification In Dapper - Tue, 6 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 19 - Testing Azure Blob Storage Locally - Mon, 5 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 18 - Azure Blob Storage - Sun, 4 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 17 - Large File Consideration On PostgreSQL - Sat, 3 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 16 - Large File Consideration - Fri, 2 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 15 - Test Organization - Thu, 1 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 14 - Virtualizing Infrastructure - Wed, 30 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 13 - Database Configuration - Tue, 29 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 12 - PostgreSQL Storage - Mon, 28 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 11 - SQL Server Storage - Sun, 27 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 10 - In Memory Storage - Sat, 26 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 9 - Encryptor Implementation - Fri, 25 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 8 - Compressor Implementation - Thu, 24 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 7 - Sequence Verification With Moq - Wed, 23 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 6 - Mocking & Behaviour Tests - Tue, 22 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 5 - Component Implementation - Mon, 21 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 4 - Types & Contracts - Sun, 20 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 3 - Project Setup - Sat, 19 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 2 - Basic Requirements - Fri, 18 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 1 - Introduction - Thu, 17 April
Resolve IPAddress From Domain In C# - Wed, 16 April
Beware - Environment.NewLine Is Not A Silver Bullet - Mon, 14 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 12 - State Activation & Entry - Wed, 9 April
Tip - Initialzing Large Arrays With A Known Value - Tue, 8 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 11 - Logic Based On How A State Was Transitioned - Mon, 7 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 10 - Generating State Diagrams - Sun, 6 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 9 - Calling Asynchronous Methods - Sat, 5 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 8 - Firing Events Before State Change - Wed, 2 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 7 - Conditional State Transitions - Mon, 31 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 6 - Firing Events On State Change - Sun, 30 March
Tip - Adding Projects To Solutions Via Command Line - Sat, 29 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 5 - Using Complex & Nested States - Fri, 28 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 4 - Using Multiple Triggers - Thu, 27 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 3 - Setting Initial State - Wed, 26 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 2 - Basic Usage - Tue, 25 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 1 - Introduction - Mon, 24 March
Collection Expressions & Dictionaries - Sun, 23 March
SLNX - New .NET Solution File Format - Thu, 20 March
Organizing .NET Projects With Solutions - Wed, 19 March
Changing The Port Of An ASP.NET Web Application Or API - Sun, 16 March
Controlling Publishing Of Satellite Resource Assemblies - Sat, 15 March
Dapper Part 15 - Using the IN Clause - Wed, 12 March
Dapper Part 14 - Multithreading - Tue, 11 March
Dapper Part 13 - Using Transactions - Mon, 10 March
Dapper Part 12 - Alternative Bulk Insert Technique - Sat, 8 March
Dapper Part 11 - Using Inheritance - Fri, 7 March
Dapper Part 10 - Handling Cancellations - Thu, 6 March
Dapper Part 9 - Using Dynamic Types - Wed, 5 March
Dapper Part 8 - Controlling Database Timeouts - Tue, 4 March
Dapper Part 7 - Adding DateOnly & TimeOnly Support - Mon, 3 March
Dapper Part 6 - Returning Multiple Sets Of Results - Sun, 2 March
Dapper Part 5 - Passing Data In Bulk To The Database - Sat, 1 March
Dapper Part 4 - Passing Data To And From The Database - Fri, 28 February
Dapper Part 3 - Executing Queries - Thu, 27 February
Dapper Part 2 - Querying The Database - Wed, 26 February
Simpler .NET Data Access With Dapper - Part 1 - Tue, 25 February
How SQL Injection Works - Part 2 - Mon, 24 February
How SQL Injection Works - Part 1 - Sun, 23 February
Using Case Insensitive Dictionary Keys In C# & .NET - Sat, 22 February
Configuring JSON Responses With ASP.NET - Fri, 21 February
Enums & Enum Flags In C# & .NET For Dummies - Thu, 20 February
Some Useful Integer Helper Methods In .NET - Wed, 19 February
Creating Reproducible Builds With global.json - Mon, 17 February
Using Frozen Collections For Immutability - Sat, 15 February
Getting The Executing .NET Version - Fri, 14 February
Using Base64 To Encode Binary Data - Wed, 12 February
Is That String Null, Empty, Or WhiteSpace? - Tue, 11 February
Executing Actions In Parallel With Parallel.Invoke - Mon, 10 February
Immutable Types In C# & .NET - Sun, 9 February
Pipelining Task Results With Task.WhenEach - Sat, 8 February
Parallelizing Work With C# & .NET - Fri, 7 February
Using Deconstructors In C# - Wed, 5 February
Using LINQ Repeat To Generate Copies Of Objects - Tue, 4 February
Using LINQ Concat To Merge Collections - Mon, 3 February
Using LINQ UnionBy To Merge Collections - Sun, 2 February
Scheduling Tasks With The PeriodicTimer - Sat, 1 February
Lazy Initialization With System.Lazy - Thu, 30 January
Using Indexes With LINQ - Wed, 29 January
Set Operations With LINQ - Tue, 28 January
Using LINQ Zip To Combine Collections - Mon, 27 January
Using LINQ Aggregate & AggregateBy To Perform Aggregate Computations - Sun, 26 January
Using LINQ SelectMany To Flatten Collections - Sat, 25 January
Using LINQ GroupJoin To Perform Grouped Joins - Fri, 24 January
Using A LINQ Pipeline To Solve Problems - Mon, 20 January
Using Groups To Apply Common Functionality To WebAPI EndPoints - Sun, 19 January
Primary Constructors - And Their Pitfalls - Fri, 17 January
Locale & Culture Support For Kenyan Languages In .NET - Wed, 15 January
Unit Testing Fractional Values In C# & .NET - Fri, 10 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 10 - Conclusion - Thu, 9 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 9 - Life Cycles - Wed, 8 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 8 - Types Of Dependency Injection - Tue, 7 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 7 - Integration Testing - Mon, 6 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 6 - Implementation Testing - Sun, 5 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 5 - Making All Implementations Available - Sat, 4 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 4 - Making Implementations Hot-Pluggable - Fri, 3 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 3 - Making Implementations Pluggable - Thu, 2 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 2 - Making Implementations Swappable - Wed, 1 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 1 - Introduction & Basic Implementation - Tue, 31 December
Correctly Processing CSV Files In C# & .NET - Wed, 25 December
Check If You Have The Latest .NET SDK - Tue, 24 December
Customizing Object Equality In C# & .NET - Thu, 19 December
Loading & Using Application Settings In .NET - Wed, 11 December
LinqPad For OSX Beta Is Out - Tue, 10 December
Truncating Numbers In C# - Thu, 28 November
Storing Common Application Settings For A .NET Application In MacOS OSX - Mon, 25 November
Pretty Printing Unformatted Json In C# - Sun, 24 November
Determining The Operating System C# .NET Program Is Running Under - Sat, 23 November
Running Multiple .NET Versions In MacOS OSX - Fri, 22 November
Using Inheritance With FluentValidation - Sat, 6 April
Correctly Setting HttpClient BaseAddress - Sun, 17 March
Tip - Don't Log Exceptions With Log.Information - Fri, 23 February
Tip - Using JsonSerializationOptions With Refit - Wed, 2 August
Fix - HttpClient Changes Case Of x-request-id Header - Fri, 21 July
Projecting Named Tuples In Entity Framework Core - Mon, 17 July
Tip - Fluent Validation With Null Values - Thu, 6 July
Writing Maintainable, Testable Code That Depends On The Current Time - Wed, 3 May
How To Use C# List Pattern Matching Practically - Tue, 28 March
Required Keyword In C# 11 & .NET 7 - Sat, 12 November
Building URLs In C# Without Concatenation Or Interpolation - Mon, 15 August
Using HttpClient To Post JSON In C# & .NET - Mon, 1 August
Fix - SSL Provider, error 0 - The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted - Mon, 16 May
About curl And PowerShell - Tue, 10 May
Tip - HttpUtility.UrlEncode vs WebUtility.UrlEncode - Thu, 7 April
Tip - Updating The Nuget Client - Thu, 31 March
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 30 - Simplified Argument Null Checks - Tue, 21 December
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 29 - Writing Raw JSON Using Utf8JsonWriter - Mon, 6 December
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 28 - JSON Serialization To & From Streams - Mon, 29 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 27 - Extended Property Patterns - Fri, 19 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 26 - Sealed ToString() In Records - Fri, 12 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 25 - Hot Reload - Tue, 9 November
.NET 6 Release - Tue, 9 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 24 - Parallel.ForEachAsync - Mon, 8 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 23 - Nullable References - Thu, 4 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 22 - LINQ Default Parameters - Tue, 2 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 21 - Constant Interpolated Strings - Mon, 1 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 20 - Json Property Ordering - Wed, 27 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 19 - Record Structs - Thu, 21 October
.NET 6 Release Candidate 2 Out - Mon, 18 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 18 - File Scoped Namespaces - Mon, 18 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 17 - New Timer - PeriodicTimer - Tue, 12 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 16 - HTTP/3 Support - Thu, 7 October
Installing .NET 6 On Linux - Thu, 7 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 15 - SOCKS Proxy Support - Tue, 5 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 14 - Implicit Usings - Fri, 1 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 13 - LINQ Improvements - Chunk - Wed, 29 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 12 - Collection Count Performance Improvement - Tue, 28 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 11 - LINQ Improvements - Range Support - Fri, 24 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 10 - SDK & Runtime Version Checking - Thu, 23 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 9 - LINQ Improvements - DistinctBy - Wed, 22 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 8 - Control Of Serialization Of Object Cycles - Tue, 21 September
.NET 6 Release Candidate 1 Out - Tue, 21 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 7 - Simpler Web Application Development - Tue, 14 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 6 - Priority Queue - Mon, 13 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 5 - Mathematics API Additions - Fri, 10 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 4 - LINQ Improvements - MaxBy & MinBy - Thu, 9 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 3 - TimeOnly Type - Wed, 8 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 2 - Friendly To Newcomers - Tue, 7 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - DateOnly Type - Mon, 6 September
Fix - .NET 6 Not Being Recognized After Install - Fri, 3 September
Conditional Logic In MSBuild - Thu, 12 November
Getting Now Playing Information From WQXR In .NET - Mon, 9 November
Posting Messages To Microsoft Teams With Code - Wed, 4 November
Joining Strings - Part 4 : String.Format - Wed, 1 July
Joining Strings - Part 3 : StringBuilder - Mon, 22 June
Joining Strings - Part 2 : String.Concat - Mon, 15 June
Joining Strings - Part 1 : The + Operator - Thu, 28 May
Decimals, Precision And Scale - Tue, 28 April
Controlling Creation Of .NET Core Projects - Wed, 25 March

.NET 7

Microsecond Precision In .NET - Sat, 15 October
How To Order Classes And Records In C# - Fri, 14 October
Tip - Simpler LINQ Ordering In .NET 7 - Thu, 13 October

.NET 9

Using The Lock In C# & .NET 9 - Fri, 27 December
Using AggregateBy In C# & .NET 9 - Wed, 18 December
Simplified Hashing In .NET 9 - Sun, 15 December
Using LINQ CountBy In .NET 9 - Sat, 14 December
Ordered Dictionary Improvements In .NET 9 - Thu, 5 December
Removing Items From A Priority Queue - Wed, 4 December
Using LINQ Index - Tue, 3 December

30 Days Of .NET 6

30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 30 - Simplified Argument Null Checks - Tue, 21 December
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 29 - Writing Raw JSON Using Utf8JsonWriter - Mon, 6 December
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 28 - JSON Serialization To & From Streams - Mon, 29 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 27 - Extended Property Patterns - Fri, 19 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 26 - Sealed ToString() In Records - Fri, 12 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 25 - Hot Reload - Tue, 9 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 24 - Parallel.ForEachAsync - Mon, 8 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 23 - Nullable References - Thu, 4 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 22 - LINQ Default Parameters - Tue, 2 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 21 - Constant Interpolated Strings - Mon, 1 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 20 - Json Property Ordering - Wed, 27 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 19 - Record Structs - Thu, 21 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 18 - File Scoped Namespaces - Mon, 18 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 17 - New Timer - PeriodicTimer - Tue, 12 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 16 - HTTP/3 Support - Thu, 7 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 15 - SOCKS Proxy Support - Tue, 5 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 14 - Implicit Usings - Fri, 1 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 13 - LINQ Improvements - Chunk - Wed, 29 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 12 - Collection Count Performance Improvement - Tue, 28 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 11 - LINQ Improvements - Range Support - Fri, 24 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 10 - SDK & Runtime Version Checking - Thu, 23 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 9 - LINQ Improvements - DistinctBy - Wed, 22 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 8 - Control Of Serialization Of Object Cycles - Tue, 21 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 7 - Simpler Web Application Development - Tue, 14 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 6 - Priority Queue - Mon, 13 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 5 - Mathematics API Additions - Fri, 10 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 4 - LINQ Improvements - MaxBy & MinBy - Thu, 9 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 3 - TimeOnly Type - Wed, 8 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 2 - Friendly To Newcomers - Tue, 7 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - DateOnly Type - Mon, 6 September

API

Using System.Text.Json To Enforce API Logic - Sat, 20 March
Getting Now Playing Information From WQXR In .NET - Mon, 9 November

ASP.NET

Get IP Address Of Web Server From ASP.NET WebAPI EndPoint - Sun, 6 July
Fix - Content Negotiation With Post Request - Expected a supported JSON media type but got "" - Tue, 1 April
Improving ASP.NET Content Negotiation XML Serialization Performance Using A RecyclableMemoryStream - Fri, 21 March
Conditionally Output CSV Using ASP.NET Minimal API - Tue, 18 March
Conditionally Output XML Or JSON Using ASP.NET Minimal API - Mon, 17 March
Changing The Port Of An ASP.NET Web Application Or API - Sun, 16 March
Configuring JSON Responses With ASP.NET - Fri, 21 February
Using Groups To Apply Common Functionality To WebAPI EndPoints - Sun, 19 January
Downloading Files With ASP.NET Core Minimal API - Mon, 30 December
Uploading Files With ASP.NET Core Minimal API - Sun, 29 December
Writing Minimal APIs For HEAD Requests - Mon, 9 December

ASP.NET Core

Using IIS With ASP.NET Core 3.0 - Sun, 24 May
Beware Of Controller Name Typos In ASP.NET Core Controllers - Wed, 11 March

Aes

Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 9 - Encryptor Implementation - Fri, 25 April

Algorithms

Cleaner Code With Switch Expressions In C# - Tue, 29 March

Amazon

Architecture

Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 10 - Conclusion - Thu, 9 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 9 - Life Cycles - Wed, 8 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 8 - Types Of Dependency Injection - Tue, 7 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 7 - Integration Testing - Mon, 6 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 6 - Implementation Testing - Sun, 5 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 5 - Making All Implementations Available - Sat, 4 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 4 - Making Implementations Hot-Pluggable - Fri, 3 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 3 - Making Implementations Pluggable - Thu, 2 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 2 - Making Implementations Swappable - Wed, 1 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 1 - Introduction & Basic Implementation - Tue, 31 December

Art Of Software

Required Properties vs Constructors In Domain Objects - Fri, 6 December

Azure

Beware

Beware - Parallel.ForEach And Async Don't Play Well Together - Sat, 15 November

Business Of Software

How Long Is A String - Sun, 17 March
Why Doesn't Windows Have A Built In Dictionary? - Tue, 16 May
Punched In The Face Or In The Stomach - Tue, 19 July
Conmen, Charlatans And Software Developers - Mon, 20 June
What Amazon AWS Local Zones Mean For ICT In Kenya - Mon, 18 April
If Your Grandmother Had Wheels - She Wouldn't Be A Bicycle - Its ALWAYS Harder Than You Think - Sat, 12 March
Standing In A Garage Doesn't Make You A Car - Why You Cant Just "Hire Developers" - Thu, 10 February
Coding Is Easy - Any Monkey Can Do It. Software, However Is Very Hard - Mon, 17 January
All Sons Are Handsome; All Daughters Are Beautiful - Pitching Enterprise Software - Mon, 10 January
About Software Bloat - Mon, 30 August
The Value Of Good Documentation - Sat, 3 July
On Career Progression - Tue, 22 June
The Cost Of Adding Features To Software - Thu, 10 June
What Do You Actually Agree To When You Accept All Cookies - Wed, 30 December
Should all bugs be fixed? - Sun, 19 April

C#

How To Get An Available TCP Port From The Operating System In C# & .NET - Mon, 17 November
How To Execute Database Queries In Parallel In C# & .NET - Sun, 16 November
Beware - Parallel.ForEach And Async Don't Play Well Together - Sat, 15 November
How To Serialize Numbers As Strings Using System.Text.Json In C# & .NET - Fri, 14 November
How To Deserialize Numbers Serialized As Strings Using System.Text.Json In C# & .NET - Thu, 13 November
Using StringSplitOptions.TrimEntries To Split Strings In C# & .NET - Wed, 12 November
C# 14, .NET 10 & Visual Studio 2026 Are Released - Tue, 11 November
Splitting A String Into An Array In C# & .NET - Mon, 10 November
Checking If Collection Enumeration Is Cheap In C# & .NET - Sun, 9 November
Count vs Any To Check A If A Collection Has Elements In C# & .NET - Sat, 8 November
Beware - Missing Serilog Entries On Application Exit - Fri, 7 November
How To Log Complex Objects With Serilog - Thu, 6 November
Beware - Setting A Database Timeout Of 0 Is A Bad Idea - Wed, 5 November
How To Check If You Can Write To A File In C# & .NET - Tue, 4 November
Using The Field Keyword In C# & .NET - Mon, 3 November
Creating Static Extension Properties In C# & .NET - Sun, 2 November
Creating Static Extension Methods In C# & .NET - Sat, 1 November
Writing & Testing Code That Expects The Current Date & Time Using The TimeProvider in C# & .NET - Fri, 31 October
Working With appsettings.json In A Team In C# & .NET - Thu, 30 October
Using Extension Members To Add Properties To Types In C# & .NET - Tue, 28 October
Adding Date Computations Support To DateTime In C# & .NET - Mon, 27 October
Getting The Start and End Of The Next Year In C# & .NET - Sun, 26 October
Getting The Start and End Of The Previous Year In C# & .NET - Sat, 25 October
Getting The Start and End Of The Current Year In C# & .NET - Fri, 24 October
Getting The Start and End Of The Next Quarter In C# & .NET - Thu, 23 October
Getting The Start and End Of The Previous Quarter In C# & .NET - Wed, 22 October
Getting The Start and End Of A Quarter In C# & .NET - Tue, 21 October
Custom Sorting To Ignore Articles Like 'A' & 'The' In C# & .NET - Sun, 19 October
Using Trim, TrimStart & TrimEnd In C# & .NET - Sat, 18 October
Serializing Enums With System.Text.Json In C# & .NET - Tue, 14 October
Getting The System Directory In C# & .NET - Sat, 11 October
What Is The Largest Duration A TimeSpan Can Store In C# & .NET - Fri, 10 October
Getting The System Uptime In C# & .NET - Thu, 9 October
Writing To The Windows Event Log In C# & .NET - Wed, 8 October
Getting The Name Of A File Without Its Extension In C# & .NET - Mon, 6 October
How To Unit Test A Class With Options In C# & .NET - Sun, 5 October
Getting The Time In Different Timezones In C# & .NET - Wed, 1 October
Converting Between Calendars AKA October MOSTLY Has 31 Days - Tue, 30 September
Correctly Getting The Number Of Days In A Month In C# & .NET - Mon, 29 September
Getting The Number Of Days In A Month In C# & .NET - Sun, 28 September
Generating Random Booleans In C# & .NET - Sat, 27 September
Generating Random Unsigned 64 Bit Integers In C# & .NET - Fri, 26 September
Generating Random Unsigned Integers In C# & .NET - Thu, 25 September
Generating Random Values For Other Integral Types In C# & .NET - Wed, 24 September
Generating Random 64 Bit Integers In C# & .NET - Tue, 23 September
Random Sampling Of Arrays In C# & .NET - Sun, 21 September
Shuffling Arrays In C# & .NET - Sat, 20 September
Restricting Numbers To A Range In C# & .NET - Fri, 19 September
Getting A Temporary File Name in C# & .NET - Thu, 18 September
Documentation Needs Love - Broken Samples - Wed, 17 September
Documentation Needs Love - Running Samples - Mon, 15 September
Getting The Downloads Location On macOS In C# & .NET - Sun, 14 September
Getting The Downloads Location On Windows In C# & .NET - Sat, 13 September
.NET 10 Release Candidate Is Out - Thu, 11 September
Changing The Decimal Separator In C# & .NET - Wed, 10 September
Why Is September Shortened As Sept And Not Sep - Tue, 9 September
Sep Is The Short Date Format For September. Sometimes - Mon, 8 September
Getting the Version of Kibana Connected in C# & .NET - Sun, 7 September
Getting the Version of ElasticSearch Connected in C# & .NET - Sat, 6 September
Getting the Version of Redis Connected Without Admin Access in C# & .NET - Fri, 5 September
Getting the Version of Redis Connected in C# & .NET - Thu, 4 September
Other RabbitMQ IConnection Server Properties - Wed, 3 September
Getting the Version of RabbitMQ Connected in C# & .NET - Tue, 2 September
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 16 - Testing SMTP Locally Using Mailpit - Sun, 31 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 15 - Sending Calendar Invites Using MailKit - Sat, 30 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 14 - Sending Multiple Format Email Using MailKit - Fri, 29 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 13 - Sending Email With Inline Attachments Using MailKit - Thu, 28 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 12 - Sending Email With Attachments Using MailKit - Wed, 27 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 11 - Sending HTML Email Using MailKit - Tue, 26 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 10 - Sending Plain Text Email Using MailKit - Mon, 25 August
Working With Dates In Multiple Locale Formats Simultaneously - Sat, 23 August
The Difference Between String.Format and ToString - Wed, 20 August
Adding Ordinal Support To DateTime Format Strings In C# & .NET - Tue, 19 August
Displaying Ordinal Words In C# & .NET - Mon, 18 August
Displaying Ordinal Numbers In C# & .NET - Sun, 17 August
Tip - DriveInfo.AvailableFreeSpace vs DriveInfo.TotalFreeSpace - Fri, 15 August
Getting Available Free Space On Drives In C# & .NET - Thu, 14 August
Class That Stores Multiple Named, Typed Generic Lists - Improvement - Wed, 13 August
Class That Stores Multiple Named, Typed Generic Lists - Tue, 12 August
Repeat - xUnit Attribute to Run Tests Multiple Times - Mon, 11 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 7 - Generating Multiple Passwords - Sun, 10 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 6 - Updating Console UI For Memorable Password Generation - Sat, 9 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 5 - Generating Memorable Passwords - Fri, 8 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 4 - Generating Human Readable Passwords - Thu, 7 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 3 - Advanced UI With Spectre.Console - Wed, 6 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 2 - Novice UI With Spectre.Console - Tue, 5 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 1 - Mon, 4 August
Generating A Cryptographically Random String in C# & .NET - Sun, 3 August
Generating A Random String In C# & .NET - Sat, 2 August
Adding Items To An Existing List In C# & .NET - Fri, 1 August
Reclaiming Memory From Lists In C# & .NET - Thu, 31 July
Mutative vs Non-Mutative List Manipulation In C# & .NET - Wed, 30 July
Considerations When Adding Items To A List In C# & .NET - Tue, 29 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 9 - Sending Multiple Format Email Using SMTP - Mon, 28 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 8 - Sending HTML Email Using SMTP - Sun, 27 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 7 - Sending Inline Images Using SMTP - Sat, 26 July
Tip - Auto Fit Columns For DevExpress XtraTreeList - Fri, 25 July
Displaying User-Friendly TimeSpans In C# & .NET - Thu, 24 July
Updating Your Installed .NET Project Templates - Wed, 23 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 6 - Testing SMTP Locally Using PaperCut - Tue, 22 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 5 - Using Google Cloud API - Mon, 21 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 4 - Using Office 365 & MS Graph API - Sun, 20 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 3 - Using Gmail - Sat, 19 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 2 - Delivery - Fri, 18 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 1 - Introduction - Thu, 17 July
Pet Peeve - Properly Pluralizing Counts In C# & .NET - Wed, 16 July
Determining The Number Of Processors In C# & .NET - Tue, 15 July
How to Wait in C# & .NET - Mon, 14 July
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 24 - Google Cloud Storage - Sun, 13 July
Programmatically Checking If There Are Messages In The EasyNetQ Error Queue In C# & .NET - Sat, 12 July
Deleting A RabbitMQ Queue In C# & .NET - Fri, 11 July
Determining The Architecture Of An Emulated 32 Bit Running Process In .NET On Windows - Thu, 10 July
Determining If A Running Process Is Emulated 32 Bit In .NET On Windows - Wed, 9 July
Determining If A Running Process Is 64 Bit In .NET - Tue, 8 July
Disable SSL Certificate Validation in .NET for Specific Requests - Mon, 7 July
Get IP Address Of Web Server From ASP.NET WebAPI EndPoint - Sun, 6 July
Controlling The Casing Of Submitted Request Headers In C# & .NET - Fri, 4 July
Writing Debugger-Friendly Objects in C# & .NET - Thu, 3 July
Quickly generating A Voice Prompt on Windows - Wed, 2 July
Quickly Generating a Voice Prompt on macOS - Tue, 1 July
Overriding Package Versions When Using .NET Centralized Package Management - Sun, 29 June
Connecting to Secured RabbitMQ Over SSL in C# With EasyNetQ - Thu, 26 June
Arithmetic In C# Using Hex Numbers - Tue, 24 June
Interpolating C# Raw String Literals - Mon, 23 June
Programmatically Adding DevExpress Menu Bar Menu Items - Wed, 18 June
Looping Through DevExpress Menu Bar Menu Items - Tue, 17 June
Locale Considerations When Parsing Dates - Mon, 16 June
Don't Parse - TryParse - Sun, 15 June
Generating and Using Directory.Packages.props file - Fri, 13 June
Generating and Using a Directory.Build.props file - Thu, 12 June
What does EnsureSuccessStatusCode do? - Wed, 11 June
Setting Timeouts for HttpClient Requests - Tue, 10 June
C# Dictionary Usage Optimizations - TryGet - Sun, 8 June
C# Dictionary Usage Optimizations - TryAdd - Sat, 7 June
Required DevExpress References For XtraReports Document Generation And Printing - Fri, 6 June
How to Deserialize JSON Using HttpClient Using C# In .NET - Thu, 5 June
Avoid Noisy Exception Logging - Wed, 4 June
Exposing Collections As Read-Only In C# & .NET - Tue, 3 June
Using the Generic Math Interface in C# & .NET - Mon, 2 June
Swapping Variables In C# With ValueTuples - Sat, 31 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 23 - Refactoring Amazon Storage Engine For Initialization - Fri, 30 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 22 - Refactoring Azure Storage Engine For Initialization - Thu, 29 May
Calling Async Methods In Constructors In C# - Wed, 28 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 21 - Testing Amazon S3 Storage Locally - Mon, 26 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 20 - Amazon S3 Storage - Sun, 25 May
Using Tuples in Deconstructors - Sat, 24 May
Not All .NET Exceptions Can Be Caught - The Case Of StackOverflow - Fri, 23 May
About Tuples & Value Tuples - Thu, 22 May
LINQ Single and First Are Not Interchangeable - Sun, 18 May
Order of Settings Precedence for .NET Applications - Fri, 16 May
Format Strings for Display of Zeros - Thu, 15 May
Overriding appsettings.json via Environment Variables - Wed, 14 May
Overriding appsettings.json Via Command Line - Tue, 13 May
Setting the Staging & Production Environments During Development - Sun, 11 May
Flexible Leveraging of appsettings.json in .NET Applications - Sat, 10 May
Computing SHA256 & Other Checksums In C# & .NET - Thu, 8 May
Dapper Part 16 - Consideration When Passing Parameters - Wed, 7 May
Tip - Command Text & Stored Procedure Specification In Dapper - Tue, 6 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 19 - Testing Azure Blob Storage Locally - Mon, 5 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 18 - Azure Blob Storage - Sun, 4 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 17 - Large File Consideration On PostgreSQL - Sat, 3 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 16 - Large File Consideration - Fri, 2 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 15 - Test Organization - Thu, 1 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 14 - Virtualizing Infrastructure - Wed, 30 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 13 - Database Configuration - Tue, 29 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 12 - PostgreSQL Storage - Mon, 28 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 11 - SQL Server Storage - Sun, 27 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 10 - In Memory Storage - Sat, 26 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 9 - Encryptor Implementation - Fri, 25 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 8 - Compressor Implementation - Thu, 24 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 7 - Sequence Verification With Moq - Wed, 23 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 6 - Mocking & Behaviour Tests - Tue, 22 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 5 - Component Implementation - Mon, 21 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 4 - Types & Contracts - Sun, 20 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 3 - Project Setup - Sat, 19 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 2 - Basic Requirements - Fri, 18 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 1 - Introduction - Thu, 17 April
Resolve IPAddress From Domain In C# - Wed, 16 April
Beware - Environment.NewLine Is Not A Silver Bullet - Mon, 14 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 12 - State Activation & Entry - Wed, 9 April
Tip - Initialzing Large Arrays With A Known Value - Tue, 8 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 11 - Logic Based On How A State Was Transitioned - Mon, 7 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 10 - Generating State Diagrams - Sun, 6 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 9 - Calling Asynchronous Methods - Sat, 5 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 8 - Firing Events Before State Change - Wed, 2 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 7 - Conditional State Transitions - Mon, 31 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 6 - Firing Events On State Change - Sun, 30 March
Tip - Adding Projects To Solutions Via Command Line - Sat, 29 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 5 - Using Complex & Nested States - Fri, 28 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 4 - Using Multiple Triggers - Thu, 27 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 3 - Setting Initial State - Wed, 26 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 2 - Basic Usage - Tue, 25 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 1 - Introduction - Mon, 24 March
Collection Expressions & Dictionaries - Sun, 23 March
Threading Issue When Populating MemoryCache - Sat, 22 March
Improving ASP.NET Content Negotiation XML Serialization Performance Using A RecyclableMemoryStream - Fri, 21 March
Conditionally Output CSV Using ASP.NET Minimal API - Tue, 18 March
Conditionally Output XML Or JSON Using ASP.NET Minimal API - Mon, 17 March
Changing The Port Of An ASP.NET Web Application Or API - Sun, 16 March
Controlling Publishing Of Satellite Resource Assemblies - Sat, 15 March
Beware - Order Of DataTable Column Definitions Matters For User Defined Table Type Mapping - Thu, 13 March
Dapper Part 15 - Using the IN Clause - Wed, 12 March
Dapper Part 14 - Multithreading - Tue, 11 March
Dapper Part 13 - Using Transactions - Mon, 10 March
Dapper Part 12 - Alternative Bulk Insert Technique - Sat, 8 March
Dapper Part 11 - Using Inheritance - Fri, 7 March
Dapper Part 10 - Handling Cancellations - Thu, 6 March
Dapper Part 9 - Using Dynamic Types - Wed, 5 March
Dapper Part 8 - Controlling Database Timeouts - Tue, 4 March
Dapper Part 7 - Adding DateOnly & TimeOnly Support - Mon, 3 March
Dapper Part 6 - Returning Multiple Sets Of Results - Sun, 2 March
Dapper Part 5 - Passing Data In Bulk To The Database - Sat, 1 March
Dapper Part 4 - Passing Data To And From The Database - Fri, 28 February
Dapper Part 3 - Executing Queries - Thu, 27 February
Dapper Part 2 - Querying The Database - Wed, 26 February
Simpler .NET Data Access With Dapper - Part 1 - Tue, 25 February
Using Case Insensitive Dictionary Keys In C# & .NET - Sat, 22 February
Configuring JSON Responses With ASP.NET - Fri, 21 February
Enums & Enum Flags In C# & .NET For Dummies - Thu, 20 February
Some Useful Integer Helper Methods In .NET - Wed, 19 February
View Request & Response Headers For HTTP Requests In C# & .NET - Sun, 16 February
Using Frozen Collections For Immutability - Sat, 15 February
Getting The Executing .NET Version - Fri, 14 February
Determining The Largest (& Smallest) Values For Numeric Types In .NET - Thu, 13 February
Using Base64 To Encode Binary Data - Wed, 12 February
Is That String Null, Empty, Or WhiteSpace? - Tue, 11 February
Executing Actions In Parallel With Parallel.Invoke - Mon, 10 February
Immutable Types In C# & .NET - Sun, 9 February
Pipelining Task Results With Task.WhenEach - Sat, 8 February
Parallelizing Work With C# & .NET - Fri, 7 February
Using LINQ OfType To Filter Collections By Type - Thu, 6 February
Using Deconstructors In C# - Wed, 5 February
Using LINQ Repeat To Generate Copies Of Objects - Tue, 4 February
Using LINQ Concat To Merge Collections - Mon, 3 February
Using LINQ UnionBy To Merge Collections - Sun, 2 February
Scheduling Tasks With The PeriodicTimer - Sat, 1 February
Beware - Mapping Classes With ReadOnly Properties Using Dapper With VB.NET, C# & F# - Fri, 31 January
Lazy Initialization With System.Lazy - Thu, 30 January
Using Indexes With LINQ - Wed, 29 January
Set Operations With LINQ - Tue, 28 January
Using LINQ Zip To Combine Collections - Mon, 27 January
Using LINQ Aggregate & AggregateBy To Perform Aggregate Computations - Sun, 26 January
Using LINQ SelectMany To Flatten Collections - Sat, 25 January
Using LINQ GroupJoin To Perform Grouped Joins - Fri, 24 January
Performance Issues With Guid Primary Keys - Tue, 21 January
Using A LINQ Pipeline To Solve Problems - Mon, 20 January
Using Groups To Apply Common Functionality To WebAPI EndPoints - Sun, 19 January
Primary Constructors - And Their Pitfalls - Fri, 17 January
Locale & Culture Support For Kenyan Languages In .NET - Wed, 15 January
Validating .NET Settings Part 4 - Validating Using IValidateOptions - Tue, 14 January
Validating .NET Settings Part 3 - Validating Using Data Annotations - Mon, 13 January
Validating .NET Settings Part 2 - Validating Using FluentValidation - Sun, 12 January
Validating .NET Settings Part 1 - Manual Validation - Sat, 11 January
Unit Testing Fractional Values In C# & .NET - Fri, 10 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 10 - Conclusion - Thu, 9 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 9 - Life Cycles - Wed, 8 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 8 - Types Of Dependency Injection - Tue, 7 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 7 - Integration Testing - Mon, 6 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 6 - Implementation Testing - Sun, 5 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 5 - Making All Implementations Available - Sat, 4 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 4 - Making Implementations Hot-Pluggable - Fri, 3 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 3 - Making Implementations Pluggable - Thu, 2 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 2 - Making Implementations Swappable - Wed, 1 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 1 - Introduction & Basic Implementation - Tue, 31 December
Downloading Files With ASP.NET Core Minimal API - Mon, 30 December
Uploading Files With ASP.NET Core Minimal API - Sun, 29 December
Correctly Getting The Week Number In C# - Sat, 28 December
Using The Lock In C# & .NET 9 - Fri, 27 December
Correctly Processing CSV Files In C# & .NET - Wed, 25 December
Check If You Have The Latest .NET SDK - Tue, 24 December
Advanced Customization Of The Display Of Dates In C# - Mon, 23 December
Caching In .NET Applications & The Hybrid Cache - Sun, 22 December
Using The u8 String Literal - Sat, 21 December
How To Work With Different Numbering Systems In C# - Fri, 20 December
Customizing Object Equality In C# & .NET - Thu, 19 December
Using AggregateBy In C# & .NET 9 - Wed, 18 December
Checking Collections Have The Same Elements - Tue, 17 December
Handing JSON Deserialization In The Wild - Mon, 16 December
Using LINQ CountBy In .NET 9 - Sat, 14 December
Determining The Number Of Days In A Year In C# - Fri, 13 December
Loading & Using Application Settings In .NET - Wed, 11 December
Writing Minimal APIs For HEAD Requests - Mon, 9 December
Sending & Receiving JSON With A HttpClient In C# - Sun, 8 December
Sending a HTTP HEAD Request With A HttpClient In C# - Sat, 7 December
Required Properties vs Constructors In Domain Objects - Fri, 6 December
Ordered Dictionary Improvements In .NET 9 - Thu, 5 December
Removing Items From A Priority Queue - Wed, 4 December
Using LINQ Index - Tue, 3 December
Truncating Numbers In C# - Thu, 28 November
Storing Common Application Settings For A .NET Application In MacOS OSX - Mon, 25 November
Pretty Printing Unformatted Json In C# - Sun, 24 November
Determining The Operating System C# .NET Program Is Running Under - Sat, 23 November
Running Multiple .NET Versions In MacOS OSX - Fri, 22 November
A Rose By Any Other Name - Short Circuiting - Wed, 5 June
Using Inheritance With FluentValidation - Sat, 6 April
Correctly Setting HttpClient BaseAddress - Sun, 17 March
Tip - Don't Log Exceptions With Log.Information - Fri, 23 February
Defining Relationships With Enum Attributes For Enum Values In C# - Fri, 18 August
Tip - Using JsonSerializationOptions With Refit - Wed, 2 August
Fix - HttpClient Changes Case Of x-request-id Header - Fri, 21 July
Projecting Named Tuples In Entity Framework Core - Mon, 17 July
Writing Maintainable, Testable Code That Depends On The Current Time - Wed, 3 May
How To Use C# List Pattern Matching Practically - Tue, 28 March
Building Directory Paths In C# - Tue, 14 February
Writing A Custom DateOnly JSON Deserializer - Tue, 13 December
Handling Null And Empty Strings With System.Text.Json - Part 2 - Mon, 21 November
Required Keyword In C# 11 & .NET 7 - Sat, 12 November
Microsecond Precision In .NET - Sat, 15 October
How To Order Classes And Records In C# - Fri, 14 October
Tip - Simpler LINQ Ordering In .NET 7 - Thu, 13 October
Tip - Using LINQ To Filter A List Of Strings Containing Words In Another List - Tue, 4 October
Building URLs In C# Without Concatenation Or Interpolation - Mon, 15 August
Using HttpClient To Post JSON In C# & .NET - Mon, 1 August
Beware - Mapping Inherited Immutable Classes Using Dapper - Wed, 25 May
Fix - SSL Provider, error 0 - The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted - Mon, 16 May
About curl And PowerShell - Tue, 10 May
Adding Multiple Items To A HashSet In C# - Thu, 28 April
Tip - HttpUtility.UrlEncode vs WebUtility.UrlEncode - Thu, 7 April
Cleaner Code With Switch Expressions In C# - Tue, 29 March
Maintainability Of Code - Fri, 11 March
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 30 - Simplified Argument Null Checks - Tue, 21 December
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 29 - Writing Raw JSON Using Utf8JsonWriter - Mon, 6 December
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 28 - JSON Serialization To & From Streams - Mon, 29 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 27 - Extended Property Patterns - Fri, 19 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 26 - Sealed ToString() In Records - Fri, 12 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 25 - Hot Reload - Tue, 9 November
.NET 6 Release - Tue, 9 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 24 - Parallel.ForEachAsync - Mon, 8 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 23 - Nullable References - Thu, 4 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 22 - LINQ Default Parameters - Tue, 2 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 21 - Constant Interpolated Strings - Mon, 1 November
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 20 - Json Property Ordering - Wed, 27 October
Saving Collections Of Primitives In Entity Framework Core - Thu, 21 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 19 - Record Structs - Thu, 21 October
.NET 6 Release Candidate 2 Out - Mon, 18 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 18 - File Scoped Namespaces - Mon, 18 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 17 - New Timer - PeriodicTimer - Tue, 12 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 16 - HTTP/3 Support - Thu, 7 October
Installing .NET 6 On Linux - Thu, 7 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 15 - SOCKS Proxy Support - Tue, 5 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 14 - Implicit Usings - Fri, 1 October
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 13 - LINQ Improvements - Chunk - Wed, 29 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 12 - Collection Count Performance Improvement - Tue, 28 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 11 - LINQ Improvements - Range Support - Fri, 24 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 10 - SDK & Runtime Version Checking - Thu, 23 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 9 - LINQ Improvements - DistinctBy - Wed, 22 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 8 - Control Of Serialization Of Object Cycles - Tue, 21 September
.NET 6 Release Candidate 1 Out - Tue, 21 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 7 - Simpler Web Application Development - Tue, 14 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 6 - Priority Queue - Mon, 13 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 5 - Mathematics API Additions - Fri, 10 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 4 - LINQ Improvements - MaxBy & MinBy - Thu, 9 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 3 - TimeOnly Type - Wed, 8 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 2 - Friendly To Newcomers - Tue, 7 September
30 Days Of .NET 6 - DateOnly Type - Mon, 6 September
Tip - Get Current Date In C# - Sat, 7 August
Reducing Bugs And Improving Maintainability Through Better Domain Design - Thu, 29 July
Tip - TimeSpan Minutes vs TotalMinutes - Fri, 11 June
About Default Interface Impementations - Mon, 24 May
The Other Integer Types - Mon, 24 May
Fix For The string argument propertyNames cannot be empty - Sun, 25 April
Fix For Cannot use LINQ in MatchCollection Regex with .NET Standard 2 - Wed, 10 March
Handling Null And Empty Strings With System.Text.Json - Tue, 9 March
Inheritance In Business Logic Is Likely A Code Smell - Part 1 - Sat, 6 March
Handling Exceptions With Refit - Sun, 28 February
Fix - error CS8805 Program using top-level statements must be an executable - Wed, 10 February
Improving HttpClient Requests - Mon, 21 December
Beware of HttpClient Header Validations - Mon, 14 December
Remote Debugging In VS Code - Thu, 3 December
HTTP Redirects Using HttpClient - Mon, 23 November
Refactoring With Records In C# - Sat, 21 November
Getting Now Playing Information From WQXR In .NET - Mon, 9 November
Posting Messages To Microsoft Teams With Code - Wed, 4 November
Disable SSL Certificate Validation In .NET - Sat, 31 October
Querying & Extracing Data From YouTrack - Fri, 30 October
Count vs Length vs Any - Checking Collection Emptiness - Tue, 14 April
Properties Under The Hood - Fri, 10 April
Arguments Handling Across Paradigms - Sun, 5 April
Fun With Tuples In C# 7 & Above - Sat, 21 March
AsReadOnly() May Not Be Doing What You Think! - Wed, 11 March

CSV

Conditionally Output CSV Using ASP.NET Minimal API - Tue, 18 March

CSVHelper

Conditionally Output CSV Using ASP.NET Minimal API - Tue, 18 March

Caching

Caching In .NET Applications & The Hybrid Cache - Sun, 22 December

Career

On Career Progression - Tue, 22 June

Carter

Fix - Content Negotiation With Post Request - Expected a supported JSON media type but got "" - Tue, 1 April
Improving ASP.NET Content Negotiation XML Serialization Performance Using A RecyclableMemoryStream - Fri, 21 March
Conditionally Output CSV Using ASP.NET Minimal API - Tue, 18 March
Conditionally Output XML Or JSON Using ASP.NET Minimal API - Mon, 17 March

Compression

Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 8 - Compressor Implementation - Thu, 24 April

Configuration

Order of Settings Precedence for .NET Applications - Fri, 16 May
Overriding appsettings.json via Environment Variables - Wed, 14 May
Overriding appsettings.json Via Command Line - Tue, 13 May
Setting the Staging & Production Environments During Development - Sun, 11 May
Flexible Leveraging of appsettings.json in .NET Applications - Sat, 10 May
Loading & Using Application Settings In .NET - Wed, 11 December

Dapper

Beware - Setting A Database Timeout Of 0 Is A Bad Idea - Wed, 5 November
Determining the Operating System SQL Server Is Running On Remotely - Wed, 21 May
Dapper Part 16 - Consideration When Passing Parameters - Wed, 7 May
Tip - Command Text & Stored Procedure Specification In Dapper - Tue, 6 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 13 - Database Configuration - Tue, 29 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 12 - PostgreSQL Storage - Mon, 28 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 11 - SQL Server Storage - Sun, 27 April
Dapper Part 15 - Using the IN Clause - Wed, 12 March
Dapper Part 14 - Multithreading - Tue, 11 March
Dapper Part 13 - Using Transactions - Mon, 10 March
Dapper Part 12 - Alternative Bulk Insert Technique - Sat, 8 March
Dapper Part 11 - Using Inheritance - Fri, 7 March
Dapper Part 10 - Handling Cancellations - Thu, 6 March
Dapper Part 9 - Using Dynamic Types - Wed, 5 March
Dapper Part 8 - Controlling Database Timeouts - Tue, 4 March
Dapper Part 7 - Adding DateOnly & TimeOnly Support - Mon, 3 March
Dapper Part 6 - Returning Multiple Sets Of Results - Sun, 2 March
Dapper Part 5 - Passing Data In Bulk To The Database - Sat, 1 March
Dapper Part 4 - Passing Data To And From The Database - Fri, 28 February
Dapper Part 3 - Executing Queries - Thu, 27 February
Dapper Part 2 - Querying The Database - Wed, 26 February
Simpler .NET Data Access With Dapper - Part 1 - Tue, 25 February
Beware - Mapping Classes With ReadOnly Properties Using Dapper With VB.NET, C# & F# - Fri, 31 January
Beware - Mapping Inherited Immutable Classes Using Dapper - Wed, 25 May

Data

The Problem With Excel XLXS For Data Interchange - Mon, 30 June

Data Structures

Adding Items To An Existing List In C# & .NET - Fri, 1 August
Reclaiming Memory From Lists In C# & .NET - Thu, 31 July
Mutative vs Non-Mutative List Manipulation In C# & .NET - Wed, 30 July
Considerations When Adding Items To A List In C# & .NET - Tue, 29 July
C# Dictionary Usage Optimizations - TryGet - Sun, 8 June
C# Dictionary Usage Optimizations - TryAdd - Sat, 7 June

Database

How To Execute Database Queries In Parallel In C# & .NET - Sun, 16 November
Beware - Parallel.ForEach And Async Don't Play Well Together - Sat, 15 November
Tip - Disappeared Database Objects In DataGrip - Sat, 16 August
Dapper Part 16 - Consideration When Passing Parameters - Wed, 7 May
Dapper Part 15 - Using the IN Clause - Wed, 12 March
Dapper Part 14 - Multithreading - Tue, 11 March
Dapper Part 13 - Using Transactions - Mon, 10 March
Dapper Part 12 - Alternative Bulk Insert Technique - Sat, 8 March
Dapper Part 11 - Using Inheritance - Fri, 7 March
Dapper Part 10 - Handling Cancellations - Thu, 6 March
Dapper Part 9 - Using Dynamic Types - Wed, 5 March
Dapper Part 8 - Controlling Database Timeouts - Tue, 4 March
Dapper Part 7 - Adding DateOnly & TimeOnly Support - Mon, 3 March
Dapper Part 6 - Returning Multiple Sets Of Results - Sun, 2 March
Dapper Part 5 - Passing Data In Bulk To The Database - Sat, 1 March
Dapper Part 4 - Passing Data To And From The Database - Fri, 28 February
Dapper Part 3 - Executing Queries - Thu, 27 February
Dapper Part 2 - Querying The Database - Wed, 26 February
Simpler .NET Data Access With Dapper - Part 1 - Tue, 25 February
Performance Issues With Guid Primary Keys - Tue, 21 January

Dates

Using Extension Members To Add Properties To Types In C# & .NET - Tue, 28 October
Adding Date Computations Support To DateTime In C# & .NET - Mon, 27 October
Getting The Start and End Of The Next Year In C# & .NET - Sun, 26 October
Getting The Start and End Of The Previous Year In C# & .NET - Sat, 25 October
Getting The Start and End Of The Current Year In C# & .NET - Fri, 24 October
Getting The Start and End Of The Next Quarter In C# & .NET - Thu, 23 October
Getting The Start and End Of The Previous Quarter In C# & .NET - Wed, 22 October
Getting The Start and End Of A Quarter In C# & .NET - Tue, 21 October
Converting Between Calendars AKA October MOSTLY Has 31 Days - Tue, 30 September
Correctly Getting The Number Of Days In A Month In C# & .NET - Mon, 29 September
Getting The Number Of Days In A Month In C# & .NET - Sun, 28 September

Dates & Times

Correctly Getting The Week Number In C# - Sat, 28 December
Advanced Customization Of The Display Of Dates In C# - Mon, 23 December

Design

DevExpress

Tip - Auto Fit Columns For DevExpress XtraTreeList - Fri, 25 July
Conditional Summary Expressions In DevExpress XtraReports - Sat, 5 July
Programmatically Adding DevExpress Menu Bar Menu Items - Wed, 18 June
Looping Through DevExpress Menu Bar Menu Items - Tue, 17 June
Required DevExpress References For XtraReports Document Generation And Printing - Fri, 6 June

Did You Know

Did You Know - An Email Body Is Optional - Fri, 3 November

Docker

Tip - Quickly Upgrade Docker Containers - Sun, 9 March
Getting A List Of Available Docker Image Tags From The Command Line - Tue, 18 February
Configuring Docker Compose RabbitMQ Settings For A Docker Container - Thu, 12 December
Fix - Docker Error On Upgrade - aufs storage - Wed, 25 August
Fix - Docker For Windows Not Running - Wed, 9 June

Documentation

Documentation Needs Love - Broken Samples - Wed, 17 September
Documentation Needs Love - The Letter vs The Spirit - Tue, 16 September
Documentation Needs Love - Running Samples - Mon, 15 September
The Value Of Good Documentation - Sat, 3 July

Domain Design

Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 10 - Conclusion - Thu, 9 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 9 - Life Cycles - Wed, 8 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 8 - Types Of Dependency Injection - Tue, 7 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 7 - Integration Testing - Mon, 6 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 6 - Implementation Testing - Sun, 5 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 5 - Making All Implementations Available - Sat, 4 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 4 - Making Implementations Hot-Pluggable - Fri, 3 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 3 - Making Implementations Pluggable - Thu, 2 January
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 2 - Making Implementations Swappable - Wed, 1 January
Customizing Object Equality In C# & .NET - Thu, 19 December

EasyNetQ

Other RabbitMQ IConnection Server Properties - Wed, 3 September
Getting the Version of RabbitMQ Connected in C# & .NET - Tue, 2 September
Programmatically Checking If There Are Messages In The EasyNetQ Error Queue In C# & .NET - Sat, 12 July
Deleting A RabbitMQ Queue In C# & .NET - Fri, 11 July
Deleting RabbitMQ Queues With EasyNetQ - Thu, 11 March

ElasticSearch

Getting the Version of Kibana Connected in C# & .NET - Sun, 7 September
Getting the Version of ElasticSearch Connected in C# & .NET - Sat, 6 September

Email

Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 16 - Testing SMTP Locally Using Mailpit - Sun, 31 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 15 - Sending Calendar Invites Using MailKit - Sat, 30 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 14 - Sending Multiple Format Email Using MailKit - Fri, 29 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 13 - Sending Email With Inline Attachments Using MailKit - Thu, 28 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 12 - Sending Email With Attachments Using MailKit - Wed, 27 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 11 - Sending HTML Email Using MailKit - Tue, 26 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 10 - Sending Plain Text Email Using MailKit - Mon, 25 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 9 - Sending Multiple Format Email Using SMTP - Mon, 28 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 8 - Sending HTML Email Using SMTP - Sun, 27 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 7 - Sending Inline Images Using SMTP - Sat, 26 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 6 - Testing SMTP Locally Using PaperCut - Tue, 22 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 5 - Using Google Cloud API - Mon, 21 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 4 - Using Office 365 & MS Graph API - Sun, 20 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 3 - Using Gmail - Sat, 19 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 2 - Delivery - Fri, 18 July
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 1 - Introduction - Thu, 17 July

Encryption

Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 9 - Encryptor Implementation - Fri, 25 April

Entity Framework Core

Projecting Named Tuples In Entity Framework Core - Mon, 17 July
Saving Collections Of Primitives In Entity Framework Core - Thu, 21 October
Fix For The string argument propertyNames cannot be empty - Sun, 25 April
Entity Framework Core - Unique Constraits vs Unique Indexes - Mon, 18 January
Fix For Entity Framework Core Not Generating Indexes & Constraints - Thu, 14 January
Fix For Entity Framework Tools Error - Tue, 12 January

Epiphanies

How Old Is Your Programming Language (2024 Edition) - Sat, 30 November
Goodbye Wordpress - Mon, 25 May
How Old Is Your Language? - Tue, 5 May
Should all bugs be fixed? - Sun, 19 April
What Is A Software Company? - Sun, 19 April

EventLog

Writing To The Windows Event Log In C# & .NET - Wed, 8 October

Excel

Fetching Table Data From Web Pages Using Excel - Mon, 21 March
Consuming REST JSON APIs From Excel - Thu, 11 February

F#

Updating Your Installed .NET Project Templates - Wed, 23 July
F# Discriminated Unions & Their Benefits - Sat, 14 June
Swapping Variables in F# - Sun, 1 June
Beware - Mapping Classes With ReadOnly Properties Using Dapper With VB.NET, C# & F# - Fri, 31 January
Random Sampling In F# - Mon, 2 December
Choosing From A Collection In F# - Sun, 1 December
Improved Collection Shuffling In F# - Fri, 29 November
Beware - F# Doesn't Support C# Types Using Init Modifiers - Fri, 2 July
Extracting Bytes From A F# String - Sat, 25 April
Arguments Handling Across Paradigms - Sun, 5 April
FizzBuzz In F# - Wed, 1 April
Using Nuget In F# Scripts - Sun, 29 March

Fails

UI Fails - Oracle VirtualBox 6.1 - Sat, 16 January

Fixes

Fix - Homebrew Httpie Command not found - Mon, 9 June
Fix - Visual Studio Code Auto-Creates A Solution File - Thu, 23 January
Fix - Python - Warning- Ignoring Invalid Distribution - Wed, 25 May
Fix - SSL Provider, error 0 - The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted - Mon, 16 May
Fix - Docker For Windows Not Running - Wed, 9 June
Fix For The string argument propertyNames cannot be empty - Sun, 25 April
Fix For Cannot use LINQ in MatchCollection Regex with .NET Standard 2 - Wed, 10 March
Fix - error CS8805 Program using top-level statements must be an executable - Wed, 10 February
Fix For Entity Framework Core Not Generating Indexes & Constraints - Thu, 14 January
Fix For Entity Framework Tools Error - Tue, 12 January
Fix For pgAdmin Not Loading - Mon, 11 January

FluentAssertions

Awesome Assertions Update - Namespace Change In Version 9 - Wed, 25 June
AwesomeAssertions - Drop-In Replacement For FluentAssertions - Fri, 4 April
FluentAssertions - A Pragmatic Roadmap To What Next - Wed, 22 January
Evaluating Multiple Test Assertions At Once With FluentAssertions - Sat, 18 January
There Be Dragons - FluentAssertions 8 New Licensing - Thu, 16 January

FluentValidation

Using Inheritance With FluentValidation - Sat, 6 April

GZip

Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 8 - Compressor Implementation - Thu, 24 April

Git

Generating A .NET Friendly .gitignore - Wed, 29 October
Getting Repository Git Information - Thu, 10 April

Gitlab

Gitlab HTTP Authentication With 2FA - Mon, 31 May

Globalization

Locale & Culture Support For Kenyan Languages In .NET - Wed, 15 January

Google

What Amazon AWS Local Zones Mean For ICT In Kenya - Mon, 18 April

Google Cloud

Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 5 - Using Google Cloud API - Mon, 21 July

Google GCP

Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 24 - Google Cloud Storage - Sun, 13 July

Homebrew

Fix - Homebrew Httpie Command not found - Mon, 9 June

HttpClient

Disable SSL Certificate Validation in .NET for Specific Requests - Mon, 7 July
Controlling The Casing Of Submitted Request Headers In C# & .NET - Fri, 4 July
What does EnsureSuccessStatusCode do? - Wed, 11 June
Sending & Receiving JSON With A HttpClient In C# - Sun, 8 December
Sending a HTTP HEAD Request With A HttpClient In C# - Sat, 7 December
Correctly Setting HttpClient BaseAddress - Sun, 17 March
Fix - HttpClient Changes Case Of x-request-id Header - Fri, 21 July
Improving HttpClient Requests - Mon, 21 December
Beware of HttpClient Header Validations - Mon, 14 December
HTTP Redirects Using HttpClient - Mon, 23 November
Getting Now Playing Information From WQXR In .NET - Mon, 9 November

Human Nature

Dogs Will Always Bark - Part I - You Make I Check - Fri, 5 April

Humanizer

Displaying Ordinal Words In C# & .NET - Mon, 18 August
Displaying Ordinal Numbers In C# & .NET - Sun, 17 August
Displaying User-Friendly TimeSpans In C# & .NET - Thu, 24 July

Insomnia

Tip - Configuring Insomnia Timeout - Fri, 14 March

IntelliJ

Changing The Default Shell In IntelliJ To PowerShell - Tue, 17 November

Internationalization

Working With Dates In Multiple Locale Formats Simultaneously - Sat, 23 August
Locale Considerations When Parsing Dates - Mon, 16 June

Interop

Beware - F# Doesn't Support C# Types Using Init Modifiers - Fri, 2 July

JSON

Improving ASP.NET Content Negotiation XML Serialization Performance Using A RecyclableMemoryStream - Fri, 21 March
Conditionally Output CSV Using ASP.NET Minimal API - Tue, 18 March
Conditionally Output XML Or JSON Using ASP.NET Minimal API - Mon, 17 March
Handing JSON Deserialization In The Wild - Mon, 16 December
Formatting Json On The Terminal / Command Line - Tue, 26 November

Java

Hello World From Java 24 - Thu, 3 April

Jekyll

Displaying Subscript and Superscript in Jekyll - Sun, 24 August
Correctly Formatting Code Samples in Jekyll - Sat, 28 June

Json

How To Serialize Numbers As Strings Using System.Text.Json In C# & .NET - Fri, 14 November
How To Deserialize Numbers Serialized As Strings Using System.Text.Json In C# & .NET - Thu, 13 November

LINQ

Using LINQ Repeat To Generate Copies Of Objects - Tue, 4 February
Using LINQ Concat To Merge Collections - Mon, 3 February
Using LINQ UnionBy To Merge Collections - Sun, 2 February
Using Indexes With LINQ - Wed, 29 January
Set Operations With LINQ - Tue, 28 January
Using LINQ Zip To Combine Collections - Mon, 27 January
Using LINQ Aggregate & AggregateBy To Perform Aggregate Computations - Sun, 26 January
Using LINQ SelectMany To Flatten Collections - Sat, 25 January
Using LINQ GroupJoin To Perform Grouped Joins - Fri, 24 January
Using A LINQ Pipeline To Solve Problems - Mon, 20 January
Using AggregateBy In C# & .NET 9 - Wed, 18 December
Using LINQ CountBy In .NET 9 - Sat, 14 December
Using LINQ Index - Tue, 3 December
How To Order Classes And Records In C# - Fri, 14 October
Tip - Simpler LINQ Ordering In .NET 7 - Thu, 13 October
Tip - Using LINQ To Filter A List Of Strings Containing Words In Another List - Tue, 4 October
Tip - Grouping Correctly In LINQ With VB.NET - Sun, 2 October
Fix For Cannot use LINQ in MatchCollection Regex with .NET Standard 2 - Wed, 10 March

Languages

How Old Is Your Programming Language (2024 Edition) - Sat, 30 November
How Old Is Your Language? - Tue, 5 May
Arguments Handling Across Paradigms - Sun, 5 April

LazyCache

Threading Issue When Populating MemoryCache - Sat, 22 March

Libraries

Tip - Fluent Validation With Null Values - Thu, 6 July

LinqPad

LinqPad For OSX Beta Is Out - Tue, 10 December

Linux

How To Sort Strings That Contain Numbers In C# & .NET - Fri, 22 August
Adding A RaspberryPI Pi to a WiFi Network on Command Line - Thu, 21 August
Verifying File Hashes With Zsh or Bash - Fri, 9 May
Stop Press - Running Linux GUI Applications In Windows - Mon, 28 November
Fix - Docker Error On Upgrade - aufs storage - Wed, 25 August
Jekyll, Ruby & OpenSSH - Wed, 27 May

Lisp

Arguments Handling Across Paradigms - Sun, 5 April

Localization

Changing The Decimal Separator In C# & .NET - Wed, 10 September
Why Is September Shortened As Sept And Not Sep - Tue, 9 September
Sep Is The Short Date Format For September. Sometimes - Mon, 8 September

Logging

Beware - Missing Serilog Entries On Application Exit - Fri, 7 November
How To Log Complex Objects With Serilog - Thu, 6 November
Writing To The Windows Event Log In C# & .NET - Wed, 8 October
Avoid Noisy Exception Logging - Wed, 4 June

MSBuild

Conditional Logic In MSBuild - Thu, 12 November

MacOS

Quickly Generating a Voice Prompt on macOS - Tue, 1 July

MailKit

Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 15 - Sending Calendar Invites Using MailKit - Sat, 30 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 14 - Sending Multiple Format Email Using MailKit - Fri, 29 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 13 - Sending Email With Inline Attachments Using MailKit - Thu, 28 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 12 - Sending Email With Attachments Using MailKit - Wed, 27 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 11 - Sending HTML Email Using MailKit - Tue, 26 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 10 - Sending Plain Text Email Using MailKit - Mon, 25 August

Maintainability

Writing Maintainable, Testable Code That Depends On The Current Time - Wed, 3 May

Markdown

Displaying Subscript and Superscript in Jekyll - Sun, 24 August

MemoryCache

Threading Issue When Populating MemoryCache - Sat, 22 March

Meta

Disqus Off - Tue, 6 April
Jekyll, Ruby & OpenSSH - Wed, 27 May

Microsoft Graph

Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 4 - Using Office 365 & MS Graph API - Sun, 20 July

Microsoft Teams

Posting Messages To Microsoft Teams With Code - Wed, 4 November

Minimal API

Writing Minimal APIs For HEAD Requests - Mon, 9 December

Moq

NET

Random Sampling Of Arrays In C# & .NET - Sun, 21 September
Beware - Order Of DataTable Column Definitions Matters For User Defined Table Type Mapping - Thu, 13 March
View Request & Response Headers For HTTP Requests In C# & .NET - Sun, 16 February
Determining The Largest (& Smallest) Values For Numeric Types In .NET - Thu, 13 February
Using LINQ OfType To Filter Collections By Type - Thu, 6 February

NUnit

Better Assertion Testing With FluentAssertions - Sun, 25 July

Networking

How To Get An Available TCP Port From The Operating System In C# & .NET - Mon, 17 November

News

Nomination To The Microsoft MVP Program - Mon, 1 September

Nuget

Understanding & Managing Nuget Cache Folders - Sat, 17 May
Using Nuget In F# Scripts - Sun, 29 March
Pinning Nuget Package Versions - Sat, 28 March

OSX

Fix - Homebrew Httpie Command not found - Mon, 9 June
Verifying File Hashes With Zsh or Bash - Fri, 9 May
LinqPad For OSX Beta Is Out - Tue, 10 December
Storing Common Application Settings For A .NET Application In MacOS OSX - Mon, 25 November

Office

Fetching Table Data From Web Pages Using Excel - Mon, 21 March

OpenSource

People

What Do You Actually Agree To When You Accept All Cookies - Wed, 30 December

Performance

Parallelizing Work With C# & .NET - Fri, 7 February

Personal Development

On Career Progression - Tue, 22 June

PostgreSQL

PowerShell

How To Get The PowerShell Version - Tue, 18 November
Getting the Operating System Platform in PowerShell - Tue, 7 October
Why Doesn't PowerShell Use < and > For Less Than & Greater Than? - Sat, 4 October
Getting A Constant Value From A .NET Executable in PowerShell - Fri, 3 October
Getting The Current Path Of An Executing PowerShell Script - Thu, 2 October
Verifying File Hashes With PowerShell (Update) - Wed, 13 March
Sending Teams Messages Using PowerShell - Thu, 29 July
Using Curl In PowerShell - Tue, 19 May
Touch In PowerShell - Sat, 16 May
Getting Your Internet IP Address - Sat, 11 April
Verifying File Hashes With PowerShell - Thu, 19 March
Copy SSH Key In Windows 10 - Mon, 9 March

PowerUser

Fetching Table Data From Web Pages Using Excel - Mon, 21 March

Python

Fix - Python - Warning- Ignoring Invalid Distribution - Wed, 25 May

REST

Consuming REST JSON APIs From Excel - Thu, 11 February

RabbitMQ

Other RabbitMQ IConnection Server Properties - Wed, 3 September
Getting the Version of RabbitMQ Connected in C# & .NET - Tue, 2 September
Programmatically Checking If There Are Messages In The EasyNetQ Error Queue In C# & .NET - Sat, 12 July
Deleting A RabbitMQ Queue In C# & .NET - Fri, 11 July
Connecting to Secured RabbitMQ Over SSL in C# With EasyNetQ - Thu, 26 June
Configuring Docker Compose RabbitMQ Settings For A Docker Container - Thu, 12 December
Deleting RabbitMQ Queues With EasyNetQ - Thu, 11 March

RaspberryPI

How To Sort Strings That Contain Numbers In C# & .NET - Fri, 22 August
Adding A RaspberryPI Pi to a WiFi Network on Command Line - Thu, 21 August

Records

Refactoring With Records In C# - Sat, 21 November

RedGate

Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Server Colouring - Mon, 17 October

Redis

Getting the Version of Redis Connected Without Admin Access in C# & .NET - Fri, 5 September
Getting the Version of Redis Connected in C# & .NET - Thu, 4 September

Refit

Tip - Using JsonSerializationOptions With Refit - Wed, 2 August

Regex

Using Regex MatchEvaluators In C# - Tue, 2 February

Rider

Getting Your IDE To Recognize Domain Specific Languages - Wed, 27 November

Ruby

Jekyll, Ruby & OpenSSH - Wed, 27 May

SQL

Using NewLines In SQL - Tue, 15 April
How SQL Injection Works - Part 2 - Mon, 24 February
How SQL Injection Works - Part 1 - Sun, 23 February
Using 'TRUE' and 'FALSE' For Bit Types In SQL Server - Sat, 12 March

SQL Server

Check SQL Server Edition in T-SQL - Fri, 17 October
Check SQL Server Version in T-SQL - Thu, 16 October
Disconnecting All Connected Users from a SQL Server Database - Wed, 15 October
About The SQL Server 2025 Editions - Mon, 13 October
About The SQL Server 2022 Editions - Sun, 12 October
Querying SQL Server For A List of Views - Sun, 22 June
Querying SQL Server For A List of Tables - Sat, 21 June
Querying SQL Server For A List of Functions - Fri, 20 June
Querying SQL Server For A List of Stored Procedures - Thu, 19 June
Renaming A SQL Server Database - Tue, 27 May
Determining the Operating System SQL Server Is Running On Remotely - Wed, 21 May
SQL Server Delete Backup & Restore Database Information - Tue, 20 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 16 - Large File Consideration - Fri, 2 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 14 - Virtualizing Infrastructure - Wed, 30 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 13 - Database Configuration - Tue, 29 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 11 - SQL Server Storage - Sun, 27 April
Beware - Order Of DataTable Column Definitions Matters For User Defined Table Type Mapping - Thu, 13 March
Beware - Handling Of 2 Digit Years In SQL Server T-SQL - Thu, 26 December
Accessing SQL Server Configuration Manager - Mon, 22 May
How To Index A NVarchar(MAX) Column In SQL Server - Sat, 26 November
Enabling TCP/IP For SQL Server - Sat, 19 November
Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Constructing Dates - Mon, 24 October
Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Reorder Lines - Thu, 20 October
Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Duplicate Tab - Mon, 17 October
Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Server Colouring - Mon, 17 October
Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Reorder Results - Mon, 17 October
Fix - SSL Provider, error 0 - The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted - Mon, 16 May
Using 'TRUE' and 'FALSE' For Bit Types In SQL Server - Sat, 12 March
Tip - SQL Server User Defined Table Types - Column Order Matters - Wed, 24 November
Decimals, Precision And Scale - Tue, 28 April

SQL Server 2022

About The SQL Server 2022 Editions - Sun, 12 October

SQL Server 2025

About The SQL Server 2025 Editions - Mon, 13 October

SQL Server Management Studio

Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Constructing Dates - Mon, 24 October
Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Reorder Lines - Thu, 20 October
Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Duplicate Tab - Mon, 17 October
Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Server Colouring - Mon, 17 October
Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Reorder Results - Mon, 17 October

Security

Computing SHA256 & Other Checksums In C# & .NET - Thu, 8 May
How SQL Injection Works - Part 2 - Mon, 24 February
How SQL Injection Works - Part 1 - Sun, 23 February
Using Groups To Apply Common Functionality To WebAPI EndPoints - Sun, 19 January
Simplified Hashing In .NET 9 - Sun, 15 December

Serilog

Beware - Missing Serilog Entries On Application Exit - Fri, 7 November
How To Log Complex Objects With Serilog - Thu, 6 November
Using Serilog & Structured Logging In Testing - Part 3 - Testing Log Messages - Sun, 13 April
Using Serilog & Structured Logging In Testing - Part 2 - Configuring Logging Destinations - Sat, 12 April
Using Serilog & Structured Logging In Testing - Part 1 - Logging Test Output - Fri, 11 April

Settings

Working With appsettings.json In A Team In C# & .NET - Thu, 30 October

Shell

Verifying File Hashes With Zsh or Bash - Fri, 9 May

Software

What Is A Software Company? - Sun, 19 April

Source Control

Getting Repository Git Information - Thu, 10 April

Spectre.Console

Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 7 - Generating Multiple Passwords - Sun, 10 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 6 - Updating Console UI For Memorable Password Generation - Sat, 9 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 5 - Generating Memorable Passwords - Fri, 8 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 4 - Generating Human Readable Passwords - Thu, 7 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 3 - Advanced UI With Spectre.Console - Wed, 6 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 2 - Novice UI With Spectre.Console - Tue, 5 August

StackExchange.Redis

Getting the Version of Redis Connected Without Admin Access in C# & .NET - Fri, 5 September
Getting the Version of Redis Connected in C# & .NET - Thu, 4 September

StarLibrary

Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 15 - Sending Calendar Invites Using MailKit - Sat, 30 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 14 - Sending Multiple Format Email Using MailKit - Fri, 29 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 13 - Sending Email With Inline Attachments Using MailKit - Thu, 28 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 12 - Sending Email With Attachments Using MailKit - Wed, 27 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 11 - Sending HTML Email Using MailKit - Tue, 26 August
Sending Email In C# & .NET - Part 10 - Sending Plain Text Email Using MailKit - Mon, 25 August
Displaying Ordinal Words In C# & .NET - Mon, 18 August
Displaying Ordinal Numbers In C# & .NET - Sun, 17 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 7 - Generating Multiple Passwords - Sun, 10 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 6 - Updating Console UI For Memorable Password Generation - Sat, 9 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 5 - Generating Memorable Passwords - Fri, 8 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 4 - Generating Human Readable Passwords - Thu, 7 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 3 - Advanced UI With Spectre.Console - Wed, 6 August
Building A Simple Password Generator In C# & .NET - Part 2 - Novice UI With Spectre.Console - Tue, 5 August
Displaying User-Friendly TimeSpans In C# & .NET - Thu, 24 July
Pet Peeve - Properly Pluralizing Counts In C# & .NET - Wed, 16 July
Tip - Command Text & Stored Procedure Specification In Dapper - Tue, 6 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 14 - Virtualizing Infrastructure - Wed, 30 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 8 - Compressor Implementation - Thu, 24 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 7 - Sequence Verification With Moq - Wed, 23 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 6 - Mocking & Behaviour Tests - Tue, 22 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 12 - State Activation & Entry - Wed, 9 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 11 - Logic Based On How A State Was Transitioned - Mon, 7 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 10 - Generating State Diagrams - Sun, 6 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 9 - Calling Asynchronous Methods - Sat, 5 April
AwesomeAssertions - Drop-In Replacement For FluentAssertions - Fri, 4 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 8 - Firing Events Before State Change - Wed, 2 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 7 - Conditional State Transitions - Mon, 31 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 6 - Firing Events On State Change - Sun, 30 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 5 - Using Complex & Nested States - Fri, 28 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 4 - Using Multiple Triggers - Thu, 27 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 3 - Setting Initial State - Wed, 26 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 2 - Basic Usage - Tue, 25 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 1 - Introduction - Mon, 24 March
Threading Issue When Populating MemoryCache - Sat, 22 March
Improving ASP.NET Content Negotiation XML Serialization Performance Using A RecyclableMemoryStream - Fri, 21 March
Conditionally Output CSV Using ASP.NET Minimal API - Tue, 18 March
Conditionally Output XML Or JSON Using ASP.NET Minimal API - Mon, 17 March
Correctly Getting The Week Number In C# - Sat, 28 December
Correctly Processing CSV Files In C# & .NET - Wed, 25 December

Stateless

Using State Machines In .NET - Part 12 - State Activation & Entry - Wed, 9 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 11 - Logic Based On How A State Was Transitioned - Mon, 7 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 10 - Generating State Diagrams - Sun, 6 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 9 - Calling Asynchronous Methods - Sat, 5 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 8 - Firing Events Before State Change - Wed, 2 April
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 7 - Conditional State Transitions - Mon, 31 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 6 - Firing Events On State Change - Sun, 30 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 5 - Using Complex & Nested States - Fri, 28 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 4 - Using Multiple Triggers - Thu, 27 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 3 - Setting Initial State - Wed, 26 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 2 - Basic Usage - Tue, 25 March
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 1 - Introduction - Mon, 24 March

System.Text.Json

Handling Null And Empty Strings With System.Text.Json - Part 2 - Mon, 21 November
Using System.Text.Json To Enforce API Logic - Sat, 20 March
Handling Null And Empty Strings With System.Text.Json - Tue, 9 March

T-SQL

Beware - Handling Of 2 Digit Years In SQL Server T-SQL - Thu, 26 December

TSQL

Check SQL Server Edition in T-SQL - Fri, 17 October
Check SQL Server Version in T-SQL - Thu, 16 October

Teams

Fix - Unavailable Resource Error When Posting HTTP Request To Teams - Fri, 13 August
Sending Teams Messages Using PowerShell - Thu, 29 July

Terminal

Using Grep Properly To Search In Files - Mon, 20 October

TestContainers

Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 14 - Virtualizing Infrastructure - Wed, 30 April

Testing

Repeat - xUnit Attribute to Run Tests Multiple Times - Mon, 11 August
Awesome Assertions Update - Namespace Change In Version 9 - Wed, 25 June
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 17 - Large File Consideration On PostgreSQL - Sat, 3 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 16 - Large File Consideration - Fri, 2 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 15 - Test Organization - Thu, 1 May
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 14 - Virtualizing Infrastructure - Wed, 30 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 13 - Database Configuration - Tue, 29 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 12 - PostgreSQL Storage - Mon, 28 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 11 - SQL Server Storage - Sun, 27 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 10 - In Memory Storage - Sat, 26 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 9 - Encryptor Implementation - Fri, 25 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 8 - Compressor Implementation - Thu, 24 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 7 - Sequence Verification With Moq - Wed, 23 April
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 6 - Mocking & Behaviour Tests - Tue, 22 April
Using Serilog & Structured Logging In Testing - Part 3 - Testing Log Messages - Sun, 13 April
Using Serilog & Structured Logging In Testing - Part 2 - Configuring Logging Destinations - Sat, 12 April
Using Serilog & Structured Logging In Testing - Part 1 - Logging Test Output - Fri, 11 April
AwesomeAssertions - Drop-In Replacement For FluentAssertions - Fri, 4 April
FluentAssertions - A Pragmatic Roadmap To What Next - Wed, 22 January
Evaluating Multiple Test Assertions At Once With FluentAssertions - Sat, 18 January
There Be Dragons - FluentAssertions 8 New Licensing - Thu, 16 January
Unit Testing Fractional Values In C# & .NET - Fri, 10 January
Better Assertion Testing With FluentAssertions - Sun, 25 July

Text To Speech

Quickly generating A Voice Prompt on Windows - Wed, 2 July
Quickly Generating a Voice Prompt on macOS - Tue, 1 July

The Business Of Software

Dogs Will Always Bark - Part I - You Make I Check - Fri, 5 April

Threading

Using The Lock In C# & .NET 9 - Fri, 27 December

Time

Tip - TimeSpan Minutes vs TotalMinutes - Fri, 11 June
Be Clearer With TimeSpans - Tue, 2 February

Tips

Tip - Disappeared Database Objects In DataGrip - Sat, 16 August
Tip - DriveInfo.AvailableFreeSpace vs DriveInfo.TotalFreeSpace - Fri, 15 August
Tip - Auto Fit Columns For DevExpress XtraTreeList - Fri, 25 July
Tip - Adding Projects To Solutions Via Command Line - Sat, 29 March
Verifying File Hashes With PowerShell (Update) - Wed, 13 March
Tip - Don't Log Exceptions With Log.Information - Fri, 23 February
Tip - Fluent Validation With Null Values - Thu, 6 July
Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Constructing Dates - Mon, 24 October
Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Reorder Lines - Thu, 20 October
Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Duplicate Tab - Mon, 17 October
Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Server Colouring - Mon, 17 October
Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Reorder Results - Mon, 17 October
Tip - Simpler LINQ Ordering In .NET 7 - Thu, 13 October
Tip - Using LINQ To Filter A List Of Strings Containing Words In Another List - Tue, 4 October
Tip - Grouping Correctly In LINQ With VB.NET - Sun, 2 October
Tip - HttpUtility.UrlEncode vs WebUtility.UrlEncode - Thu, 7 April
Tip - Updating The Nuget Client - Thu, 31 March
Tip - Get Current Date In C# - Sat, 7 August
Tip - Locating Commands In The Path On Windows - Mon, 14 June
Tip - TimeSpan Minutes vs TotalMinutes - Fri, 11 June
Tip - Making Use Of Windows Terminal Tab Captions - Tue, 4 May
Remember To Encode QueryString Data - Tue, 2 February
Be Clearer With TimeSpans - Tue, 2 February
Extracting Bytes From A F# String - Sat, 25 April

Tools

Using Grep Properly To Search In Files - Mon, 20 October
Gitlab HTTP Authentication With 2FA - Mon, 31 May

UI

Viewing the Complete URL in Chrome - Mon, 12 May
Chrome UI Surprises - Fri, 4 September

UI Fails

UI Fails - Oracle VirtualBox 6.1 - Sat, 16 January

UX

Viewing the Complete URL in Chrome - Mon, 12 May
Chrome UI Surprises - Fri, 4 September

Under The Hood

HTTP Redirects Using HttpClient - Mon, 23 November
Joining Strings - Part 4 : String.Format - Wed, 1 July
Joining Strings - Part 3 : StringBuilder - Mon, 22 June
Joining Strings - Part 2 : String.Concat - Mon, 15 June
Joining Strings - Part 1 : The + Operator - Thu, 28 May
Count vs Length vs Any - Checking Collection Emptiness - Tue, 14 April
Properties Under The Hood - Fri, 10 April

VB.NET

Programmatically Adding DevExpress Menu Bar Menu Items - Wed, 18 June
Looping Through DevExpress Menu Bar Menu Items - Tue, 17 June
Beware - Mapping Classes With ReadOnly Properties Using Dapper With VB.NET, C# & F# - Fri, 31 January
A Rose By Any Other Name - Short Circuiting - Wed, 5 June
Tip - Grouping Correctly In LINQ With VB.NET - Sun, 2 October

VBScript

Fare Thee Well, VBScript - Fri, 12 September

VS Code

Fix - Visual Studio Code Auto-Creates A Solution File - Thu, 23 January
Remote Debugging In VS Code - Thu, 3 December

Validation

Validating .NET Settings Part 4 - Validating Using IValidateOptions - Tue, 14 January
Validating .NET Settings Part 3 - Validating Using Data Annotations - Mon, 13 January
Validating .NET Settings Part 2 - Validating Using FluentValidation - Sun, 12 January
Validating .NET Settings Part 1 - Manual Validation - Sat, 11 January
Tip - Fluent Validation With Null Values - Thu, 6 July

Visual Studio

SLNX - New .NET Solution File Format - Thu, 20 March
Organizing .NET Projects With Solutions - Wed, 19 March
Getting Your IDE To Recognize Domain Specific Languages - Wed, 27 November

Visual Studio Code

Getting Your IDE To Recognize Domain Specific Languages - Wed, 27 November

WSL

Stop Press - Running Linux GUI Applications In Windows - Mon, 28 November
Upgrading To WSL 2 - Wed, 10 June

WebAPI

Get IP Address Of Web Server From ASP.NET WebAPI EndPoint - Sun, 6 July
Consuming REST JSON APIs From Excel - Thu, 11 February

Windows

Writing To The Windows Event Log In C# & .NET - Wed, 8 October
Fare Thee Well, VBScript - Fri, 12 September
Determining The Architecture Of An Emulated 32 Bit Running Process In .NET On Windows - Thu, 10 July
Determining If A Running Process Is Emulated 32 Bit In .NET On Windows - Wed, 9 July
Quickly generating A Voice Prompt on Windows - Wed, 2 July
Creating Files Like .gitconfig In Windows - Fri, 27 June
Stop Press - Running Linux GUI Applications In Windows - Mon, 28 November
Linux Tools Packaged With Windows - Wed, 25 May
Jekyll, Ruby & OpenSSH - Wed, 27 May

Windows Terminal

Tip - Making Use Of Windows Terminal Tab Captions - Tue, 4 May

XML

Improving ASP.NET Content Negotiation XML Serialization Performance Using A RecyclableMemoryStream - Fri, 21 March
Conditionally Output CSV Using ASP.NET Minimal API - Tue, 18 March
Conditionally Output XML Or JSON Using ASP.NET Minimal API - Mon, 17 March

XUnit

Better Assertion Testing With FluentAssertions - Sun, 25 July

XtraReports

Conditional Summary Expressions In DevExpress XtraReports - Sat, 5 July

YouTrack

Querying & Extracing Data From YouTrack - Fri, 30 October

xUnit

Repeat - xUnit Attribute to Run Tests Multiple Times - Mon, 11 August
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 15 - Test Organization - Thu, 1 May
Using Serilog & Structured Logging In Testing - Part 3 - Testing Log Messages - Sun, 13 April
Using Serilog & Structured Logging In Testing - Part 2 - Configuring Logging Destinations - Sat, 12 April
Using Serilog & Structured Logging In Testing - Part 1 - Logging Test Output - Fri, 11 April