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Introduction to Docker: What It Is and Why It Matters If you use Docker daily in your work you can skip reading this article because it is dedicated to those approaching this world for the first time. So what is Docker in simple words? Docker is a special kind of software that helps you put […]
Introduction to Simplifying Testing: Overcoming Efficiency and Complexity Challenges In the modern development landscape, working with APIs often involves handling JSON content types requiring serialization and thorough validation to ensure the returned objects are correct. Automating these validation processes through testing is indispensable, yet verifying every attribute of a complex object can be time-consuming and […]
Introduction Welcome to my Blazor coding adventure! As you can guess from the title, today we will talk about the different hosting models available for Blazor. I was surprised to read from wikipedia that we currently have about six different editions of Blazor apps, so let’s try to simplify everything. If you’re new to this […]
In the dynamic landscape of modern application development, the seamless integration of diverse technologies is key to creating robust and feature-rich solutions. In this tutorial, we will explore the integration of Blazor WebAssembly components into a WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) application, combining the power of Blazor with the versatility of WPF. This tutorial is centered […]
Introduction As a fullstack Microsoft developer, my professional journey has traversed all facets of Microsoft web technology: from ASP to ASP.NET, passing through ASP.NET Core and Angular. I’ve experienced continuous evolution, embracing every new technology to stay at the forefront of the development world. There’s a technology I’ve been observing closely for a while, one […]
Introduction Towards the end of the summer, Microsoft made the decision to retire a software that I use daily at home: Visual Studio for Mac. You can find more information here and here. Let’s just say it was not good news for me, Visual Studio for Mac is not comparable to the Windows version but it […]
Some time ago, I had the privilege of being contacted by Patrick Smacchia, CEO and lead developer at NDepend to try out NDepend v2023. Having never used NDepend before, my curiosity was naturally piqued. In my daily role as Senior Software Engineer, we extensively employ static code analysis tools as part of our Azure DevOps […]
In my previous article I wrote about what they are and why to use Solid Principles in C#. In this article, I am going to show you when and how to use the Single Responsibility Principle in C# with an example project. You can find the repository on GitHub. The master branch shows the initial […]
The process of converting one type to another is called type conversion. In C#, you can perform the following kinds of conversions: Implicit conversions Explicit conversions User-defined conversions Conversion with a helper class To go more in detail about Implicit and Explicit conversions read my previous article Boxing and Unboxing in C#. Implicit conversions An implicit […]
C# is, for the most part, a statically typed language, this means that the compiler will check the type of every expression and you sometimes have to convert between types. The concept of boxing and unboxing is the starting point in C# type system in which a value of any type can be treated as an object. […]
