Sign inAbout ITNEXTWrite for ITNEXTEvents & VideosSUMMITVacancies @ LINKITLoad Balance a C# ASP.NET Core Service and Use MySql App-Layer Sharding. Shows the Concepts, Which Also Apply to MongoDB, etc.Christian ZinkFollow·4 min read One of the big advantages of microservices is, that they can be scaled independently. This article shows the benefits and challenges of scaling one microservice and its database. You will create a working example application and manually implement application-layer shardin...

Laurent June 10th, 2021 Today, I’d like to show dotnet how to run your own .NET application on a Micro Controller Unit (MCU) on a simple battery for multiple years. I’ll build an application that will read the temperature and pressure on a BMP280 sensor connected to an ESP32. The core idea is to be run on a small solar panel charging a LiPo battery. I will as well present two real case scenarios, both running .NET nanoFramework, one on STM32F7 processor and the other one on a TI CC1352R. I’m Laurent E...

Things Of Interest Blog It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code 2020-06-28 by qntm It may not be possible for us to ever reach empirical definitions of "good code" or "clean code", which means that any one person's opinions about another person's opinions about "clean code" are necessarily highly subjective. I cannot review Robert C. Martin's 2008 book Clean...

TL;DR: Everything you need to know about formatting plain text with Serilog.Expressions, by example. There are endless ways to format log output. With Serilog’s built-in “output templates”, you can choose the fields and text to include in log output, and use .NET format string-style alignment and width syntax, but that’s about it. Serilog.Expressions is a fairly new library that plugs in to enable everything else. This post collects the plain text formatting questions I’ve fielded over the years, and t...

If you're going from C# to TypeScript, it's worth checking the differences without assuming straight that's the same type of language. TypeScript has structural typing, which might not be the typing you're looking for. Read more in my latest article

Matt June 8th, 2021 I’m excited to share with you some of the improvements that have been made to .NET that are coming in .NET 6 in the area of dates, times, and time zones. You can try out all of the following, starting with .NET 6 Preview 4. In this blog post, I’m going to cover the following topics:The new DateOnly and TimeOnly typesTime Zone Conversion APIsTime Zone Display Names on Linux and macOSTimeZoneInfo.AdjustmentRule Improvements For even more details, you can also refer to dotnet/runtime...

Sign inSoftware CraftMicrosoftJavaScriptCoding For KidsScience & TechHumorAboutGlobal using, file-scoped namespaces, and other enhancements will slim down unnecessary codeMatthew MacDonaldFollow·7 min read We’ve been speculating about the future of C# 10 for a while. The possibilities are no secret. Spend some time on the C# GitHub page and you’ll find a long list of tantalizing ideas — some with major headaches still being hashed out. Many of them won’t make it into the next version of C#, and some ...

Rendering PDFs with Razor Templates and PuppeteerSharp in Azure Functions A couple of weeks ago, we looked at how to use Puppeteer with Node.js Azure Functions to take screenshots of web pages. Today, we'll look at how to render PDFs in Azure Functions using Razor and the C# port of Puppeteer, PuppeteerSharp. A common usage of this is generating something like an invoice. We'll create PDF invoices for our favorite fictitious online store, Tailwind Traders. Overview We'll run ASP.NET Core Razor Pages ...

Alexey GolubHomeBlogProjectsTalksMonadic Comprehension Syntax via LINQ in C#17 minutes to readdotnet, csharp, tricks If you ask a C# developer to list the reasons why they enjoy working with the language, they will most likely put LINQ somewhere at the top. LINQ is an extremely convenient set of language tools that provide ways to query and transform data sequences of arbitrary shapes and origins, in a fluent, lazy, and efficient manner. LINQ itself is made up of multiple pieces, but from the consumer ...

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