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Extending the calculator implementation: Creating a Simple Moving Average...
This is the third post in the series: Creating a Simple Moving Average calculator in C#. Part 1 - A Simple Moving Average calculator Part 2 - Making the calculator thread-safe Part 3 - Extending the...
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How to stop Visual Studio from creating launchsettings.json
In this short post I show how to stop an annoying behaviour of Visual Studio where it will keep creating a launchsettings.json file for integration test projects. tl;dr; To stop Visual Studio from...
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Benchmarking 4 reflection methods for calling a constructor in .NET
The typical way to create an object in .NET/C# is to use the new keyword. However it's also possible to create a new instance of an object using reflection. In this post I compare 4 different methods,...
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Exploring .NET interactive notebooks with VS Code
In a recent series I described the process of creating a Simple Moving Average calculator. A couple of days later Khalid messaged me on twitter: Hey @andrewlocknet! It would be cool to see your Simple...
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Creating Docker multi-arch images for ARM64 from Windows
In this post I describe how to create multi-architecture docker images. Specifically, I show how to create Docker images that run on ARM 64 processors (such as AWS's Graviton2 processors) from a...
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Using SSH and localhost.run to test GitHub webhooks locally
In this post I describe how to test GitHub webHooks locally using SSH and https://localhost.run/, a service that can be used to create a public endpoint that tunnels to a website running locally....
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Conditional compilation for ignoring method calls with the ConditionalAttribute
The other day at work I ran into an attribute I hadn't heard about, the [Conditional] attribute. In this post I start by describing conditional compilation using pre-processor directives like #if, and...
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Adding authentication to a Blazor Server app using Auth0
In this post I show how how to add authentication to a sample ASP.NET Core Blazor Server app. The default .NET templates show how to use ASP.NET Identity or Azure for authentication, but in this post...
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The overall design and a first look at the internals: A deep dive on...
This is the first post in the series: A deep dive on StringBuilder. Part 1 - The overall design and a first look at the internals (this post) Part 2 - Appending strings, built-in types, and lists Part...
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Appending strings, built-in types, and lists: A deep dive on StringBuilder -...
This is the second post in the series: A deep dive on StringBuilder. Part 1 - The overall design and a first look at the internals Part 2 - Appending strings, built-in types, and lists (this post)...
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Converting chunks to a string with ToString(): A deep dive on StringBuilder -...
This is the third post in the series: A deep dive on StringBuilder. Part 1 - The overall design and a first look at the internals Part 2 - Appending strings, built-in types, and lists Part 3 -...
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Inserting and removing characters: A deep dive on StringBuilder - Part 4
This is the fourth post in the series: A deep dive on StringBuilder. Part 1 - The overall design and a first look at the internals Part 2 - Appending strings, built-in types, and lists Part 3 -...
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Reducing allocations by caching with StringBuilderCache: A deep dive on...
This is the fifth post in the series: A deep dive on StringBuilder. Part 1 - The overall design and a first look at the internals Part 2 - Appending strings, built-in types, and lists Part 3 -...
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ValueStringBuilder: a stack-based string-builder: A deep dive on...
This is the sixth post in the series: A deep dive on StringBuilder. Part 1 - The overall design and a first look at the internals Part 2 - Appending strings, built-in types, and lists Part 3 -...
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Rebuilding StronglyTypedId as a source generator - 1.0.0-beta release: Using...
This is the seventh post in the series: Using strongly-typed entity IDs to avoid primitive obsession. Part 1 - An introduction to strongly-typed entity IDs Part 2 - Adding JSON converters to strongly...
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Downloading artifacts from Azure DevOps using .NET
In this post I show how to use the Azure DevOps REST API to view the results of builds in Azure DevOps Pipelines for a given branch/tag, and how to download the artifacts. The hardest part of the...
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Using Source Generators with Blazor components in .NET 6
In this post I describe a problem I discovered when upgrading my Blazor app to .NET 6. Source generators that were working fine in .NET 5 failed to discover the Blazor components in my app, due to...
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Looking inside ConfigurationManager in .NET 6: Exploring .NET 6 - Part 1
This is the first post in the series: Exploring .NET 6. Part 1 - Looking inside ConfigurationManager in .NET 6 (this post) Part 2 - Comparing WebApplicationBuilder to the Generic Host Part 3 -...
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Comparing WebApplicationBuilder to the Generic Host: Exploring .NET 6 - Part 2
This is the second post in the series: Exploring .NET 6. Part 1 - Looking inside ConfigurationManager in .NET 6 Part 2 - Comparing WebApplicationBuilder to the Generic Host (this post) Part 3 -...
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Exploring the code behind WebApplicationBuilder: Exploring .NET 6 - Part 3
This is the third post in the series: Exploring .NET 6. Part 1 - Looking inside ConfigurationManager in .NET 6 Part 2 - Comparing WebApplicationBuilder to the Generic Host Part 3 - Exploring the code...
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