How C# Records will change my life
Introduction Whenever I code I prefer to have immutable domain models. Example: public class Game { public Game(Team homeTeam, Team awayTeam, GameResult result) { HomeTeam = homeTeam ?? throw new...
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Heartbeat logger in Dotnet Core
Photo by Jair Lázaro / Unsplash Introduction It's important to monitor your applications so that you can act fast when problems occurs. When it comes to web applications it's common to have a /health...
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Dotnet pack - include referenced projects
Photo taken by Vance Osterhout Scenario You provide a nuget package to x amount of different customers. You want to share common code between the different nuget packages. You don't want your shared...
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Custom Dictionary JsonConverter for System.Text.Json
Image taken by Romain Vignes Introduction A couple of months ago we (more or less unknowingly) started to use System.Text.Json instead of Newtonsoft in one of our ASP.NET Core applications. The...
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CSVHelper - Read column value into a List property
Photo by Mika Baumeister When working with C# and CSV files, I always use CSVHelper. It's a small library for reading and writing CSV files. Extremely fast, flexible, and easy to use. I couldn't agree...
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C# - Throttle outgoing http requests - Concurrent
Photo by Denys Nevozhai Introduction This is the first part in a series I'm planning to write about how to consume http apis with rate limiting in mind. This post will focus on how to handle rate...
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Tidy up your HttpClient usage
Photo by CDC Introduction This is just a quick tip for anyone using HttpClient and wants to avoid some of the boilerplate (error handling, logging etc). Usually my implementations looks something like...
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MongoDB - Missing discriminator array when doing upserts with UpdateOneModel
The problem Given the following two classes: [BsonDiscriminator(RootClass = true)] [BsonKnownTypes(typeof(MongoDbSomeModel))] [BsonIgnoreExtraElements] public class MongoDbBaseModel { [BsonId] public...
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Efficient file uploads with dotnet
Introduction Recently I needed to solve the following problem at work We need to upload a lot of large files to a third party storage provider, it needs to be as efficient as possible. This problem is...
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Polymorphic deserialization with System.Text.Json
Photo by Florian Krumm The problem We need to deserialize the following JSON: [ { "type": "car", "name": "Josefs Car", "wheels": 4, "model": { "brand": "Ferrri", "name": "458 Spider", "color": "red",...
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Azure Storage - Zip multiple files using Azure Functions
Photo by Tomas Sobek Introduction Recently I was assigned the following task: Our customers need to be able to create a zip file containing multiple files from Azure Storage and then download it. It...
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My take on the "Result class"
Photo by Agence Olloweb Introduction Don't use exceptions for flow control! This is a quote I stumbled on quite a bit during my first years as a programmer. Let's imagine the following scenario: We...
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Select action method based on header value - ASP.NET Core
Photo by Constantin Shimonenko Scenario We are using a third party system for managing our users. Whenever something happens with a user (added/updated/removed...), the system will notify us by using a...
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WOPI Integration with ASP.NET Core - lessons learned
Photo by Nikhita S Introduction Recently I've been working on adding "Office for the Web" support to our system. This will enable us to edit office documents uploaded to our system directly in the...
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Transform C# objects to a flat string dictionary
Photo by Kenan Reed The problem Because of (third party) reasons I needed to transform some objects to a flat Dictionary<string, string>. Example Given the following class... public class MyClass...
View ArticleNew major version of JOS.ContentSerializer - Version 5.0
I finally had some time to fix a long standing bug in JOS.ContentSerializer. The bug If you passed in a custom IContentSerializerSettings to the Serialize or GetStructuredData method on...
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How C# Records will change my life
Photo by Eric Krull Introduction Whenever I code I prefer to have immutable domain models. Example: public class Game { public Game(Team homeTeam, Team awayTeam, GameResult result) { HomeTeam =...
View ArticleNew major version of JOS.ContentSerializer - Version 5.0
I finally had some time to fix a long standing bug in JOS.ContentSerializer. The bug If you passed in a custom IContentSerializerSettings to the Serialize or GetStructuredData method on...
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How C# Records will change my life
Photo by Eric Krull Introduction Whenever I code I prefer to have immutable domain models. Example: public class Game { public Game(Team homeTeam, Team awayTeam, GameResult result) { HomeTeam =...
View ArticleNew major version of JOS.ContentSerializer - Version 5.0
I finally had some time to fix a long standing bug in JOS.ContentSerializer. The bug If you passed in a custom IContentSerializerSettings to the Serialize or GetStructuredData method on...
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