In this post, I thought it might be fun to create the world’s (nearly) shortest C# program and then deep dive into some of the fine details of what happens behind the scenes. This post is not intended to solve a real-world problem but I hope it’s well worth your time spent reading it. By […]
Using the Roslyn APIs to Analyse a .NET Solution
In this post, I demonstrate how to analyse a .NET solution using the Roslyn APIs and aMsBuildWorkspace.
Custom JSON Serialisation with System.Text.Json Converters
This post is my contribution to the .NET Advent calendar. Make sure you check out the other amazing posts on the lead up to Christmas! At the time of writing, I am deep into work on some significant changes in the Elasticsearch .NET client. One of the changes is moving to System.Text.Json as the default […]
Playing with System.Text.Json Source Generators
In my daily work, I’m becoming quite familiar with the ins and outs of using System.Text.Json. For those unfamiliar with this library, it was released along with .NET Core 3.0 as an in-the-box JSON serialisation library. At its release, System.Text.Json was pretty basic in its feature set, designed primarily for ASP.NET Core scenarios to handle […]
How Does the StringBuilder Work in .NET? (Part 3)
Part Three: How Appending Works and the StringBuilder Expands So far in this series, we’ve learned when we should consider using StringBuilder in our code and learned about the memory overhead of using a StringBuilder. It’s now time to learn how the StringBuilder can “expand” its capacity and support appending string data efficiently. As with […]