What do you do when your .NET Core application doesn’t behave the way you expect? Maybe it is slower since the last deployment or has started crashing at the worst possible times. How do you analyze the issue when your application is running in someone else’s data center on the …
Immutable objects – aka objects whose properties and fields can’t change after instantiation – are one of the fundamental pillars of functional programming. Yet, it also has other great uses in classically object-oriented languages such as C#. Immutability can help make your code cleaner, easier to reason about, and reduce …
There are amazing things happening with C# and .NET Core regarding performance. We have new types such as Span and Memory for working with and parsing in-memory data. We have pipelines for high-performance IO and we have ArrayPool, MemoryPool and OjectPool to help reduce GC allocations.
The biggest feature of C# 8.0 is undoubtedly nullable reference types. Rather than trying to rush through all the new features, this talk will just focus on this one. What is the point? What is the syntax? What should you expect? What might be unexpected?
Have you ever heard the term DRY, as in “Keep your code DRY”? DRY refers to one of the foundational design principles in C# programming. It stands for Don’t Repeat Yourself. On the surface, that sounds so easy to do. However, as you will see in this video, there is …
Today, nearly all browser-based apps are written in JavaScript (or similar languages that transpile to it). That’s fine, but there’s no good reason to limit our industry to basically one language when so many powerful and mature alternate languages and programming platforms exist.
