C# Articles

Extension methods are a way of life for many developers, however, they prevent unique challenges for those striving for good Unit Test coverage within their application. In this post we explore a process that can be used to still leverage the extension methods AND achieve proper code coverage!

Proper architecture is critical for all portions of your application. I often see corners cut when working with background tasks as individuals believe that it is hard to follow common patterns, such as Dependency Injection while working in these different environments. This post is an expansion of a prior post where I discuss HangFire & background tasks in .NET 5.

Getting an accurate picture of your true unit test coverage can be almost impossible when auto-generated, or other similar code is introduced. For example, projects with EF Migrations enabled can get blasted as not-covered. Let us look at methods to improve this reporting.

NuGet is supposed to make our lives easier, which most of the time it does. However, when bit by a crazy complicated bug that couldn't be explained I lost much time on something as silly as a verison number.

New attributes have been added to the language specifications allowing for information about the caller to be systematically passed to your code.

Although the .NET Languages all run on a managed runtime, it is important to still understand how memory is used underneath the covers. This post provides a high-level example of best practices for memory usage.

After many years of developing with C# there is always more to learn, today that learning experience was a try/catch block without the catch.

LINQ allows us to perform complex tasks with simplicity, however, aggregate and grouping functions can be complicated to understand, this post explores these concepts in detail.

Debugging and looking at complex objects can result in a lot of time being spent "hunting" for the proper information because the IntelliSense details do not contain helpful information. By using attributes available for debugging we can improve this display to be manageable.