Engineering & Design

Sometimes your web app needs to do work in the background periodically e.g. to sync data. This article provides a walkthrough how to…

Use Newtonsoft.Json for JSON serialization instead of System.Text.Json.

String formatting is a common task in software development and allows you to create dynamic and informative output. Traditional approaches…

Half a year to go until the release of .NET 8 — time to take a look at what we can expect.

This post describes the steps required to connect any custom domain or sub domain to Azure Front Door as platform gateway using Cloudflare…

E2E example on how to automate the deployment and use of Azure Key Vault using Bicep, RBAC and Azure Pipelines.

How to log from anywhere using ILogger and logLevel with .NET and Dependency Injection

How to use the output of a Bicep deployment triggered from a Azure Pipeline for subsequent tasks, jobs and stages.

Using Azure DevOps Pipeline Variables in PowerShell Script Files

Efficient deserialization of Json files on Azure Blob Storage with .NET

A few weeks ago I started to fix some issues on an existing Azure pipeline for deploying cloud resources. It’s an enterprise system which…

Use constants in Azure Bicep to simplify your IaC life.

Godot 4.0 stable is finally out! I’ve been a fan of the Godot project for years now, and while I always thought Godot 3.x was a neat…

A struct with an interface is inefficient in .NET

Application Insights allows us to monitor what and how our application is doing. Apart from collecting metrics and telemetry it even allows…

Create Symbolic Links on Windows with .NET

Developing and deploying containerized applications is a common and convenient way, especially when you are building IoT solutions running…

The isolated mode of Azure Functions with .NET allows for greater control over the runtime environment and dependencies of the function…

Performance testing is a crucial step in ensuring that your website can handle high levels of traffic and provide a smooth user experience…

Disable Spell Checker in Visual Studio 2022

MSSQL Live Query statistics are a valuable tool for software developers working with Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL). These statistics provide…

Azure Table Storage is quite limited in the ways you can add filters to your queries. E.g. asking for all rows where PartitionKey starts…

Last year (2022) the company I’m working for, was requested to create a sample for an IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) use case. We’ve…

Difference between Add and AddAsync in EF Core

At this point, my fate seems to be building esoteric tech stacks on top of Unity, so let’s get to it:

ChatGPT answers are cut off — how to fix