dotNetTips.Utility Open-Source Projects for .NET Core & .NET Standard

Announcing the dotNetTips.Utility for .NET Core Repository

dotNetDave Rocks Desert Code Camp – 2019

The dotNetDave 25th Anniversary World Tour is coming to the Desert Code Camp in Phoenix, AZ on October 12th! I haven't spoken at this awesome code camp in a few years, so I'm excited to come back! Sessions I will be doing the sessions below. Rock Your Code: Code & App Performance for Microsoft .NET … Continue reading dotNetDave Rocks Desert Code Camp – 2019

dotNetTips.Utility.Standard Tester

Recently, while working on one of my books, I needed to randomly create data for use in tests and benchmarking of the code. I took what I wrote and created a new NuGet package titled dotNetTips.Utility.Standard.Tester. Below are the major features. Data Models There are a few data models that I have created for use … Continue reading dotNetTips.Utility.Standard Tester

Maximizing Code Reuse: Strategies for Efficient Development

The article discusses the importance of maximizing code reuse in software development, emphasizing the use of separate, reusable DLLs (C# projects) for efficient code organization. The author highlights the benefits of code reuse, including easier unit testing, maintenance, sharing, and updates, ultimately leading to cost and time savings in the long term.

Performance Tip: for vs. foreach in Microsoft .NET

Collections are one of the most commonly used types in programming. For any program that uses data, you will be dealing with collections. One of the most common things we do is to iterate over the collection to process the data. There are three main ways to iterate over a collection in .NET. for For … Continue reading Performance Tip: for vs. foreach in Microsoft .NET

Real World Cloud App – From Start to Finish: The User Experience Layer

In the fifth article in this series, I talked about and showed how to code the communications layer for this cloud solution using ASP.NET Core Web API. In this article I’m going to add the user experience (UX) layer to maintain the ad data using ASP.NET Core 3.0 using the new Blazor framework (in preview). … Continue reading Real World Cloud App – From Start to Finish: The User Experience Layer

dotNetDave Rocks The DotNetSouth.Tech Conference

For the first time, I will be speaking at the DotNetSouth.Tech conference in Atlanta, Georgia on May 13th and 14th. I'm excited to present the sessions below. Rock Your Code: Real World Cloud App From Start to Finish Room: Room 104 @ 2:40pm on May 13th This session will show how I created a cloud … Continue reading dotNetDave Rocks The DotNetSouth.Tech Conference

Performance: Exception Trapping

Last year while presenting my Rock Your Code: Code and App Performance in Microsoft .NET session at a conference, one of the attendees asked me if using the When() clause is faster or not when trapping Exceptions. I found the question intriguing, so I set out to do performance testing for his question. Two Ways … Continue reading Performance: Exception Trapping

Real World Cloud App – From Start to Finish: The Data Layer

In the second article in this series, I laid out the architecture and design for this cloud solution. Now it’s finally time to get coding! In this article, I will discuss how I designed the data layer using Azure Cosmos DB. To keep a separation of concerns, I will also talk about the business entities … Continue reading Real World Cloud App – From Start to Finish: The Data Layer

Processing AWS SQS Messages via a LAMBDA

With the short time I have been programming using Amazon Web Services (AWS) I have learned three things... AWS is NOT .NET Framework friendly! They are more .NET Core friendly but don't keep up with the latest version. The AWS .NET SDK needs a lot of work. I've previously wrote about this in my "Is … Continue reading Processing AWS SQS Messages via a LAMBDA