Anyone who regularly works with HttpClient will have likely have also used the HttpRequestMessage class. While HttpClient supports some convenience methods for quick actions such as sending a GET request; once you have more complex requirements, such a needing to include headers on the request, you will need to use HttpClient.SendAsync which accepts a HttpRequestMessage. […]
Demystifying HttpClient Internals Exploring the SendAsync Flow
I’ve written a few blog posts about HttpClientFactory and HttpClient and these are proving popular topics. There exists some confusion about how HttpClient should be used and there is a degree of mystery around how it actually works. In this post, I want to begin a potential series where we will explore the internals of […]
Campaigning for a .NET Foundation Board Seat
Please excuse me for interrupting the normally educational and generally technical .NET content for a short announcement! I’m running for a seat on the board of directors of the .NET Foundation!!! It feels a bit mad even as I type that sentence and I won’t lie and it cranks my impostor syndrome up to level […]
An Early Look at gRPC and ASP.NET Core 3.0 Creating an ASP.NET Core 3.0 gRPC client and server
In this post, I want to introduce my very early experience (after a few hours of experimentation) of gRPC and ASP.NET Core 3.0. I’ve conducted some experiments as part of our quarterly Madgex hack day. This will be an introductory post so I don’t expect to show everything in fine detail. This is intended to […]
An Introduction to Optimising Code Using Span<T> A C# Performance Journey - Part 3
This post continues my series about writing high-performance C# code. In this post, we’ll continue from the last two posts by introducing the Span<T> type and refactor some existing code by converting it to a Span-based version. We’ll use Benchmark.NET to compare the methods and validate whether our changes have improved the code. If you […]