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Testing your incremental generator pipeline outputs are cacheable: Creating a...
This is the tenth post in the series: Creating a source generator. Part 1 - Creating an incremental generator Part 2 - Testing an incremental generator with snapshot testing Part 3 - Integration...
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Understanding C# 8 default interface methods
In this post I provide an introduction to default interface methods, how they work at a high level, and their typical uses. Finally, I discuss some of the sharp edges on the feature: things to watch...
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Using default interface methods for performance gains in IHeaderDictionary
In this post I show an example of how the C# 8 feature, default interface methods, can be used to improve performance. I describe a pull request to ASP.NET Core that shows how default interface...
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8 ways to set the URLs for an ASP.NET Core app
By default, without additional configuration in .NET 8, ASP.NET Core apps listen on the URL http://localhost:5000. In this post I show 8 different ways to change this URL. This is an update to a post...
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Using named pipes with ASP.NET Core and HttpClient
In this post I describe Windows named pipes, what they are, the scenarios where they're useful, how to use them with ASP.NET Core, and how to call a named pipe ASP.NET Core app using HttpClient. What...
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Using Unix domain sockets with ASP.NET Core and HttpClient
In this post I describe Unix domain sockets, what they are, the scenarios where they're useful, how to use them with ASP.NET Core, and how to call a UDS ASP.NET Core app using HttpClient. For those...
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Using Unix domain sockets with ASP.NET Core and HttpClient
In this post I describe Unix domain sockets, what they are, the scenarios where they're useful, how to use them with ASP.NET Core, and how to call a UDS ASP.NET Core app using HttpClient. For those...
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An introduction to the heap data structure and .NET's priority queue
In this post I provide an introduction to the heap data structure, describe why it's useful, and show how it's used in .NET's PriorityQueue type. What is a heap? You may be familiar with the phrase...
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Behind the implementation of .NET's PriorityQueue
In my previous post I provided an introduction to the heap data structure and described how one of its main usages is in building a priority queue, such as the .NET type PriorityQueue. In this post, I...
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Implementing Dijkstra's algorithm for finding the shortest path between two...
In a previous post I provided an introduction to the generic heap data structure and how it's used by the .NET PriorityQueue type. In the subsequent post I discussed the implementation of some...
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Syncing a git branch between Windows and WSL filesystems
In this post I show how you can work on a git branch with a repository checked out in Windows, and then sync that branch to another git folder in WSL, without having to push to a remote server like...
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Rendering Math in HTML: MathML, MathML Core, and AsciiMath
In this post I discuss some lesser known HTML elements: the MathML (and MathMLCore) specification, and show how these can be used to render math equations in HTML. Finally I discuss the AsciiMath...
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Hacking together an AsciiMath parser for .NET
In my previous post, I gave a brief introduction to MathML, the HTML elements for displaying mathematical equations and notation. At the end of that post I showed AsciiMath, an easy-to-write markup...
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Creating a .NET AsciiMath parser and using it in a Markdig extension
In this post I describe how and why I ported an AsciiMath to MathML converter to .NET, and how I created a small extension to Markdig that uses the new AsciiMath parser. AsciiMath, MathML and...
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An introduction to primary constructors in C#12
In this post I introduce the primary constructors feature that debuted in C#12 along with .NET 8. I describe the various ways to use them and show how they work behind the scenes. The first appearance...
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Thoughts about primary constructors: 3 pros and 5 cons
In my previous post I provided an introduction to primary constructors in C#12. In this post I describe some of the ways I like to use primary constructor and also some of the things I don't like...
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Blocking primary constructor member capture using a Roslyn Analyzer
In my previous posts I talked about primary constructors, how they work, and some of the things I like and dislike about them. In this post I show a Roslyn analyzer that you can add to your project to...
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Conditionally skipping a trigger job in GitLab based on a previous job
In this post I provide the solution to a very specific situation in GitLab: You have a job that calculates various variables for the current pipeline. You want to use those variables to decide whether...
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Introducing collection expressions in C#12: Behind the scenes of collection...
This is the first post in the series: Behind the scenes of collection expressions. Part 1 - Introducing collection expressions in C#12 (this post) This series take an in-depth look at collection...
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Exploring the generated code: List and fallback cases: Behind the scenes of...
This is the second post in the series: Behind the scenes of collection expressions. Part 1 - Introducing collection expressions in C#12 Part 2 - Exploring the generated code: List<T> and...
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