Part 1: Why do we need a StringBuilder and when should we use one? After becoming proficient in .NET and C#, developers are likely to learn that they should use a StringBuilder to optimise string manipulation and concatenation. This is not a hard and fast rule for all situations but is generally good advice if […]
Tag: .NET
.NET South East – May Event New speakers night.
It’s been a while since I last got around to blogging about a .NET South East meetup event. I wanted to make sure I did this month as the plan for this week’s event was close to my heart. I had the idea back in December / January to try and organise a night for […]
Using HostBuilder and the Generic Host in .NET Core Microservices Exploring a simple pattern for cross-cutting concerns in console based services.
NOTE: This content is now quite out of date. I have a new post “What are .NET Worker services?” which answers that question. Worker services are a much better alternative to the example below. I also cover them in detail in my new course on Pluralsight – “Building ASP.NET Core Hosted Services and .NET Core […]
.NET South East October 2017 Meetup With guest Rabeb Othmani
Last night we held our third .NET South East meetup at Madgex HQ with special guest Rabeb Othmani. Here’s a brief summary of the evening… Preparation Planning for this meeting felt a lot easier than past events as I have built a few lists of things to do and have a bit of experience with […]
.NET South East August 2017 Meetup With speakers Dylan Beattie and Steve Gordon
Last night we held the first ever .NET South East meetup event! I’ve been really looking forward to this meetup since first announcing the idea at the end of June. I talked about some of my motivations behind starting the group in an earlier blog post. I’d spent a lot of time leading up to this […]