Tagged articles - csharp

I assume since you are reading this article you are involved in development of applications using C# and .NET platform. Microsoft .NET and C# have been around for quite a while but there is not much talk on haw you can use C# for writing code apart from creating your projects in your IDE of choice and compiling them to executables. This is typical approach for writing robust applications and that is fine, but from time to time, this whole ceremony of creating a project, adding packages and libraries just to run for example a simple scheduled task that cleans up old logs from IIS seems like and overkill...read more

Swagger is a great way do describe your RESTful API. In ASP.NET it is pretty easy to wire up your OpenAPI documentation with your service facade with Swashbuckle NuGet package...read more

I while ago I wrote and article about Publishing .NET Core code analysis to SonarCloud from Azure build pipeline. Although SonarCloud is a great platform for analyzing your code coverage and dry code analysis, it can add additional cost to your project...read more

Configuration is an important part of the application. In many cases it determines how the application will behave, for example when you have different configurations per environment...read more

.NET Core has done a great job by introducing interface for most of classes which makes them easy to write unit tests around them. However, there are a lot of classes that re commonly used which are not refactored in .NET Core...read more

Microsoft introduced a new feature called Global Tool with the new .NET Core release 2.1. Essentially, global tools are simple console applications which can be invoked from the console...read more

In two previous articles (How to setup .NET Core 2 on Debian or Ubuntu Linux distro the easy way & Setting up .NET Core service/daemon on Debian Linux OS) I explained how to setup and run .NET Core based applications and how to run them as a Linux daemon. In this article we are going to take it one step further...read more