Last week my sixth Pluralsight course, “String Manipulation in C#: Best Practices” was released. This new course dives into creating, modifying, searching and parsing strings in .NET. Strings are one of the most used types in .NET applications and In this course, you’ll uncover everything you need to know about strings to use them effectively […]
Category: C#
Playing with C#9 Top-level Programs, Records and Elasticsearch.NET
This post is for C# Advent Calendar 2020 organized by Matthew Groves. I recommend that you check out some of the other posts being published throughout December! In this post, I thought it was long overdue that I spent a little time playing around with some new C# 9 language features. C# 9 introduced quite […]
.NET Performance Optimisations Don’t Have to be Complex
Readers who have followed me for some time will know that I have developed a bit of a passion for performance improvements and avoiding allocations in critical code paths. Previous blog posts have touched on examples of using Span<T> as one mechanism to prevent allocations when parsing data and using ArrayPool to avoid array allocations […]
C# 8.0: Understanding Using Declarations
In this post, I introduce a simple new language feature of C# 8 called using declarations. Based on the odd tweet or two that I have seen pass through my Twitter feed, this feature is like Marmite (sorry, UK reference there). You either love it or you hate it. The opinions seem to be quite […]
High-Performance Logging in .NET Core
In this post I will explore and highlight an approach to logging which you can apply in high-performance, high load applications to reduce the overhead of logging. A Refresher of Logging in .NET Core Logging is a built in feature of ASP.NET Core and .NET Core Work Services. The feature is provided as part of […]