Angular is a TypeScript-based open-source web application framework used to build web and mobile-based applications. This article will go through some of the angular features by explaining some of its core APIs. You can follow this angular cheat sheet to build your project. …

Originally posted September 2021 on the Split Blog When writing APIs, REST (short for representational state transfer) is considered the standard. And yet, REST itself isn’t actually a standard. This makes designing intuitive REST APIs tricky to get right. It is a way of thinking or an art form more…

What if I told you that 5 easy tips from a senior C# developer can make you an better coder? Would you believe me? Most people won’t, because we tend to assume that skill and experience are innate traits that only the most talented developers are born with. While that…

Another way to implement the [builder pattern](https://thkarropoulos.hashnode.dev/builder-pattern) is with fluent builder. Fluent builder provides a more readable and straightforward way to create objects. …

Garbage collection (GC) is a mechanism that modern programming languages use to manage memory and dispose of unreachable objects. When an object is instantiated GC allocates memory for that object. When the object is no longer used the memory that it is occupied must be released. …

Schedulers are applications that perform some tasks periodically. One of the terms that most developers are familiar with regarding schedulers is — CRON jobs. It is a very useful application as it can run in the background. I was recently trying to build a scheduler in ASP.Net core using Quartz.Net…

Power up your .NET development — There is a proverb “You don’t have to reinvent the wheel”. Libraries are the best example of that. It helps you to write complex and time-consuming functionality in an easy way. According to me, a good project uses some of the best libraries available I do not think .NET needs…

Bending the Clean Code Principles — Introduction IF/ELSE conditions are part of any algorithm you write daily. While this seem trivial and easy, most people (including me) some time do not use them correctly. Because they are everywhere, you can easily get to the point where you don’t know what you’re doing anymore. So how do we…

Facing performance-related issues while developing applications is a matter of time. After searching using different data sources, you will find a list of performance advice for concrete situations and the entire application. In this article we will consider performance advice, which aims to boost entire application performance with maximum effect…

With C# examples. — Code that a developer writes will be reused by that developer sometimes later or by other developers. Code reuse is something that is used regularly — new functionality is developed on top of existing reusable components. When you introduce new code, you have a great opportunity to try to make…

With .NET Core 7 already here, you’re probably wondering what to expect from Microsoft’s new framework. Let’s find out. I started by creating and running an empty Web API project. I saw that .NET Core 7 requires around 40% less memory than its predecessor. To be honest, I was surprised…

How many of those C# reflection tricks do you know? — Reflection is an incredible tool that allows you to interact with your object types at runtime. …

New features I like the most — New .NET 7 was released on the 8th of November, 2022, together with C# 11 compiler: .NET 7 is Available Today Jon Douglas Jeremy Likness Angelos Petropoulos Download .NET 7 today! .NET 7 brings your apps increased performance and…devblogs.microsoft.com C# has several new language features you can now use to develop your applications. Let’s review my personal most liked new features!

Part 1! — Before we go through anything, I would really appreciate it if you would follow me on Instagram. I post about tech there as well. However, I haven’t posted there in a while so the numbers have really gone down. But that’s enough of that. Here are the 28 Laws Of…

Entity Framework second-level cache using in-memory cache — Second-level caching is a technique that stores database query results in the application-level cache so they can be accessed more quickly on the subsequent request. Implementing a second-level cache can improve application performance significantly. Popular ORMs like Hibernate have had this feature for a long time, but unfortunately, Entity Framework…