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Automatic Resource Management in .NET 7 Core
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Joydip Kanjilal
Last updated: Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2024 - January/February
Joydip covers the core concepts of resource management in .NET Core and then helps you build something with it.
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Building an Event-Driven .NET Core App with Dapr in .NET 7 Core
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Last updated: Friday, February 24, 2023
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2023 - March/April
If you need to be able to create event-driven applications quickly and efficiently, Joydip suggests exploring Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr).
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Clean Shave: Razor Pages for Web Forms Developers
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Shawn Wildermuth
Last updated: Friday, February 24, 2023
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2023 - March/April
If you’re already familiar with ASP.NET Web Forms, you can apply your existing skillset to use Razor Pages instead. Shawn's overview of Razor Pages provides a straightforward migration path for Web Forms developers.
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Introduction to Snowflake
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Rod Paddock
Last updated: Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2023 - March/April
In this article, author Rod Paddock introduces Snowflake, a cloud-based SQL database that offers a range of capabilities for developers. Paddock discusses the features of Snowflake, such as its cloud-agnostic nature, support for querying JSON data, and secure data sharing capabilities. He explains how Snowflake's unique architecture allows for "infinite" computing through its warehouse concept and provides insights into using Snowsight, the web-based application for managing Snowflake infrastructure. Rod also discusses building a data loading pipeline, securing data with masking, and sharing data with other Snowflake users. He concludes by highlighting the power and user-friendly nature of Snowflake as a game-changing product.
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Some Overlooked EF Core 7 Changes and Improvements
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Julie Lerman
Last updated: Friday, February 24, 2023
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2023 - March/April
Great updates for EF Core 7 include explicit methods FromSqlRaw and FromSqlInterpolated. The SqlQuery method lets you pass in a raw SQL query to get scalar data directly from the database. And many more cool features. Read about them in Julie article.
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An Introduction to Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry in .NET 7
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Last updated: Thursday, December 8, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2023 - January/February
OpenTelemetry is an open-source distributed tracing framework. Companies that use it can make more informed decisions about their operations. Learn to use it through an example ASP.NET 7 project.
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Benchmarking .NET 6 Applications Using BenchmarkDotNet: A Deep Dive
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2022 - September/October
In his story about how to set up benchmarks in Visual Studio 2022, Joydip teaches you how to create baselines, and then execute many types of benchmarks and interpret the results.
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Customized Object-Oriented and Client-Server Scripting in C#
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Vassili Kaplan
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2022 - September/October
You need full control of how your functionality is implemented. Vassili tells you how to use classes and objects for great control, and how to implement them in C# in this article about object-oriented and client-server scripting.
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Using Cosmos DB in .NET Core Projects
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2022 - May/June
Cosmos is a document storage tool for database developers. You’ll want to consider what Shawn reveals about this spiffy tool before you build your next app.
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Docker Development Environment for .NET Devs
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2022 - March/April
You already love Docker, but you probably aren’t familiar with Docker Desktop. Julie learned how useful this tool is by doing it the hard way.
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Simplest Thing Possible: Tasks
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John Petersen
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2022 - January/February
John revives his old series with an interesting study of Tasks so you can take your .NET feature to the next level.
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Inversion of Control with Lamar
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Jeremy Miller
Last updated: Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2021 - September/October
If you liked StructureMap for your IoC, you’re going to love Lamar. Jeremy shows you how to take advantage of this nifty tool.
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Building Command Line Utilities in C# and Python
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2021 - July/August
Rod whips up a quick app to help a friend and ends up discovering some pretty cool multi-platform features that are part of command line utilities.
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Migrating Monolithic Apps to Multi-Platform Product Lines with .NET 5
By:
Alexander Pirker
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2021 - March/April
Learn to migrate older applications to .NET 5. Learn to use "ports-and-adapters" (hexogonal architecture) along with design patterns and principles from domain-driven design (DDD) to help you modify your old software so you can split the business logic into independent assemblies.
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Tapping into EF Core’s Pipeline
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2021 - March/April
Julie describes new EF Core 5 metadata features and how to use them, including ToQueryString, DbCloggerCategory, DbContext.SavingChanges, DbContext.SavedChanges, DbContext.SaveChangesFailed, Dotnet-counters, ChangeTracker.DebugView and Model.DebugView.
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Using Ajax and REST APIs in.NET 5
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Paul Sheriff
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2021 - March/April
In this article, create a .NET 5 Web server to service Web API calls coming from any Ajax front-end. You also learn to create an MVC Web application and a Node server to serve up Web pages from which you make Ajax calls to the .NET 5 Web server.
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.NET 5.0 Runtime Highlights
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Richard Lander
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2020 - Vol. 17 - Issue 1 - .NET 5.0
Learn about new .NET 5.0 projects: single file apps and ARM64. Single file apps enable you to create standalone, true xcopy, single-file executables. ARM64 projects let you build applications that will run faster on hardware that uses ARM chips (phones, Surface Pro X, the Samsung Galaxy Book S and the Apple Silicon-based Mac line).
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Azure Tools for .NET in Visual Studio 2019
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2020 - Vol. 17 - Issue 1 - .NET 5.0
Overview of how to use Visual Studio 2019 to consume Azure services from a .NET app and deploy your app to Azure using the revamped Connected Services experience. Get started using Connected Services to add service dependencies to your application.
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Blazor Updates in .NET 5
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Daniel Roth
Last updated: Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2020 - Vol. 17 - Issue 1 - .NET 5.0
Learn about new features available in Blazor using .NET 5 including the Blazor WebAssembly SDK, new built-in support for virtualization, CSS isolation, lazy loading and built-in features that reduce or eliminate JavaScript interop code required.
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EF Core 5: Building on the Foundation
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2020 - Vol. 17 - Issue 1 - .NET 5.0
Julie’s pretty excited about the new features in EF Core 5. You will be too when you read about the bugs fixed, over 200 new features (including many-to-many support and the ability to filter when eager loading with the Include method) and minor enhancements and support for previous versions.
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F# 5: A New Era of Functional Programming with .NET
By:
Phillip Carter
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2020 - Vol. 17 - Issue 1 - .NET 5.0
Microsoft has updated F# 5 with new features that include FSI in .NET Core and support for packages in NuGet. Plus F# 5 now supports Jupyter Notebooks as well as Visual Studio Code Notebooks, and more.
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From .NET Standard to .NET 5
By:
Immo Landwerth
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2020 - Vol. 17 - Issue 1 - .NET 5.0
Microsoft's release of .NET 5 will be a shared code base for .NET Core, Mono, Xamarin, and future .NET implementations. So which target framework names (TFMs) should you use? This article explains when you should target .NET Standard 2.0 or when you should go straight to .NET 5.
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Introducing C# 9.0
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Bill Wagner
Last updated: Thursday, December 10, 2020
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2020 - Vol. 17 - Issue 1 - .NET 5.0
The C# compiler that ships with the .NET 5 SDK has been updated and streamlined; but C# 9.0 is supported only on .NET 5.0. Read this overview of the best C# 9.0 feaures to support native cloud applications, modern software engineering practices, and more concise readable code.
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Project Tye: Creating Microservices in a .NET Way
By:
Shayne Boyer
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2020 - Vol. 17 - Issue 1 - .NET 5.0
Learn to use Project Tye, an experimental developer's tool that makes the experience of creating, testing and deploying microservices easier in .NET. Note that Tye's deployment target is only to Kubernetes.
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Windows Desktop Apps and .NET 5
By:
Olia Gavrysh
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2020 - Vol. 17 - Issue 1 - .NET 5.0
This article describes the differences between .NET 5 and .NET Core 3.x and describes breaking changes from the upgrade. Overview of how to upgrade existing WinForms and WPF applications to .NET 5.
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Xamarin.Forms 5: Dual Screens, Dark Modes, Designing with Shapes, and More
By:
David Ortinau
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2020 - Vol. 17 - Issue 1 - .NET 5.0
Learn about new enhancements to Xamarin.Forms 5 to support new screen sizes, orientatonss and postures supported in the Surface Duo.
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Using .NET Core Tools to Create Reusable and Shareable Tools and Apps
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Rick Strahl
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2020 - November/December
Overview of .NET Core tools. Why use them? Where do you get them? Step-by-step walkthrough to build, publish and consume a .NET Core Tool package.
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A Deep Dive into ASP.NET Core Localization
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2020 - September/October
Joydip shows you how to build multilingual applications in ASP.NET Core using Visual Studio 2019 to enable a broader reach for your applications.
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En Route to Full-Stack .NET Development with Client-Side Blazor
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2020 - September/October
Learn how to use Blazor on the client-side using Blazor WebAssembly feauting a real world application that makes service calls to REST APIs for data. Blazor allows C# developers to finally create performant web applications as fast, or faster, than websites built using JavaScript. Otto shows you how to use Blazor on the client-side.
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Interactive Unit Testing with .NET Core and VS Code
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2020 - September/October
John continues exploring unit testing using .NET Core 3 in VS Code, and steps to get ready for .NET 5 and VS Code.
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Use the MVVM Design Pattern in MVC Core: Part 3
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2020 - September/October
Paul shows you how to use the MVVM design pattern in MVC Core to build a product detail page for adding and editing data, and validating product data and display validation.
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When Open Source Came to Microsoft
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Richard Campbell
Last updated: Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2020 - September/October
Why did Microsoft join the open source movement? Richard Campbell tells us the history of how Microsoft became an open source software company.
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Transform Your ASP.NET Core API into AWS Lambda Functions
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2020 - July/August
Learn how to move an Existing ASP.NET Core API to a Serverless Application Model (SAM) application which is a form of AWS Lambda Functions.
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Use the MVVM Design Pattern in MVC Core: Part 2
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2020 - July/August
In a MVC Core application using an MVVM design pattern, learn to sort data when a user clicks on a column header in an HTML table. Learn to add a pager to limit the number of rows displayed on a page. Learn to cache data in the Session object to improve performance.
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Discovering AWS for .NET Developers
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2020 - May/June
Learn a bit about how Amazon Web Services (AWS) supports .NET platforms including hosting ASP.NET Core apps.
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Use the MVVM Design Pattern in MVC Core: Part 1
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2020 - May/June
Learn to use the Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) design pattern, long used in WPF applications, in MVC Core applications. Using MVVM in MVC makes your applications even more reusable, testable, and maintainable.
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Introduction to GraphQL for .NET Developers: Mutation
By:
Peter Mbanugo
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2020 - March/April
Peter uses the Hot Chocolate Library to teach you about GraphQL. Learn how to use the Entity Framework to access and store data and explore mutations using GraphQL.
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A New Era of Productivity with Blazor
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2019 - Vol. 16 - Issue 1 - .NET Core 3.0
Blazor is a new Web framework that uses .NET Core’s architecture, essentially combining the simplicity of Razor with .NET Core concepts. Ed shows you how to get the most from this great tool.
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Be More Productive in Visual Studio 2019
By:
Mika Dumont,
Kendra Havens
Last updated: Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2019 - Vol. 16 - Issue 1 - .NET Core 3.0
If you thought Visual Studio was a great tool before, you’re going to go nuts about the latest release. Mika and Kendra talk about the changes that they’re most excited about.
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Entity Framework Core 3.0: A Foundation for the Future
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Last updated: Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2019 - Vol. 16 - Issue 1 - .NET Core 3.0
The latest release of Entity Framework gets it geared up for some big future changes. Julie shows you that the changes are nothing to sneeze at.
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Essential C# 8.0
By:
Mark Michaelis
Last updated: Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2019 - Vol. 16 - Issue 1 - .NET Core 3.0
When .NET Core got its makeover, so did C#. Mark shows you what’s improved and why you’ll want to work with it right away.
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From Xamarin Native to Xamarin.Forms: Reaping the Rewards without the Risk
By:
Ryan Davis
Last updated: Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2019 - Vol. 16 - Issue 1 - .NET Core 3.0
If you need access to native platforms, you’re going to want to see what Ryan has to say about Xamarin.Forms. He’ll show you that migration isn’t the pain you thought it might be.
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gRPC as a Replacement for WCF
By:
Magnus Montin
Last updated: Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2019 - Vol. 16 - Issue 1 - .NET Core 3.0
You’ve been programming in C# for a while now, and you know that you need bidirectional streaming with low latency and high throughput. Google’s remote procedure call offering (gRPC) has what you need, and Magnus shows you why.
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ML.NET: Machine Learning for .NET Developers
By:
Bri Achtman,
Cesar de la Torre
Last updated: Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2019 - Vol. 16 - Issue 1 - .NET Core 3.0
Machine Learning doesn’t have to be the big scary monster lurking in the dark. Bri and Cesar show you how Microsoft’s ML.NET lets you design your own models specific to your deployment context and needs even if you’ve never played with ML before.
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Upgrading Windows Desktop Applications with .NET Core 3
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Last updated: Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2019 - Vol. 16 - Issue 1 - .NET Core 3.0
It’s not enough that creating apps using .NET Core is better than ever before. Now, Olia shows us how with .NET Core 3, upgrading existing apps is easier, too.
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Visual Studio for Mac 8.3: It’s Not Just for Xamarin Anymore!
By:
Benjamin Day,
Dominic Nahous
Last updated: Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2019 - Vol. 16 - Issue 1 - .NET Core 3.0
If you’ve been putting off using VS on the Mac, you’ll be excited by Ben’s experience with the new release. It’s got all the whistles and bells you know and love and it makes some tasks even easier than you’d expect.
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What’s New in ASP.NET Core 3.0
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Last updated: Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2019 - Vol. 16 - Issue 1 - .NET Core 3.0
Get ready for an exciting list (and examples) as Shawn explores the new tools in ASP.NET Core 3.0.
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Get Started with Serverless Azure Functions
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Last updated: Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2019 - November/December
Azure Functions take care of most of the server-related problems tied to hosting. Julie shows you how to integrate them with your own app and then monitor the results.
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Intro to GraphQL for .NET Developers: Schema, Resolver, and Query Language
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Last updated: Thursday, March 18, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2019 - September/October
Peter introduces you to GraphQL so your REST API client list can grow and change without a lot of pain. You can use strongly typed schema, eliminated over- and under-fetching, and you can get analytics about how clients are really using your API.
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.NET Core 3.0 for the Desktop
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Last updated: Monday, March 29, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2019 - July/August
Rick examines what is—and isn’t—coming in .NET Core Runtime. You’ll get to put this knowledge to good use as you build a small app, too.
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.NET Core for the Desktop
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Mike Yeager
Last updated: Monday, April 5, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2019 - March/April
Software vendors and conferences would tell you that the desktop is dead, but if you’re a working consultant, you know that’s not true. Mike dives into a great tool using WinForms to show you what you’ve been missing.
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Building a .NET IDE with JetBrains Rider
By:
Chris Woodruff,
Maarten Balliauw
Last updated: Friday, April 16, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - November/December
If you’ve been developing IDEs in .NET, you’ve probably heard about JetBrains’ Rider. Chris and Maarten show you that the time is right to dive in.
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Build Real-time Applications with ASP.NET Core SignalR
By:
Anthony Chu
Last updated: Thursday, April 22, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - July/August
You may have already heard about SignalR and that the new version makes it easier to build fast Web apps and provide great user experiences. Anthony explores this tool and shows you how to take advantage of it.
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Entity Framework Core 2.1: Heck Yes, It’s Production Ready!
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Last updated: Thursday, April 22, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - July/August
With this release, EF Core has really matured. Julie takes you on a tour and points out some of the highlights of this labor-simplifying tool.
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Introducing .NET Core 2.1 Flagship Types
By:
Ahson A. Khan
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - July/August
If you’re looking to improve your app’s performance, you’re probably already cross-platform and open source, and you already know that .NET Core is a great tool for that goal. Ahson lets us in on what’s new in .NET Core 2.1 with a focus on Span<T> and Memory<T>.
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Ready for Prime Time: .NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0 Have Arrived
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Last updated: Thursday, April 29, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - March/April
Rick explores the new features in .NET Core and ASP.NET Core and shows you that the wait was worth it.
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What’s New in ASP.NET Core 2.1
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Last updated: Friday, April 30, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - March/April
Daniel takes you on a tour of the new features in the new release of ASP.NET. He thinks you’ll find it exciting, especially regarding its SignalR capabilities.
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Building an Angular Front End for an ASP.NET Web API
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Last updated: Friday, May 21, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2017 - May/June
Rick follows up on his server-side Angular back end for ASP.NET Core with this interesting look at the matching front end.
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Tooling for Your .NET Projects
By:
Rachel Reese
Last updated: Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2017 - May/June
You’ve been plodding along, nose to the grindstone, and you might not have realized that there are some useful tools out there that can make your .NET projects a little more fun to build. Rachel explores Paket, F# Formatting, and FAKE.
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What’s New in C# 7.0
By:
Chris Williams
Last updated: Thursday, May 20, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2017 - May/June
Just when you think you know what’s up in C#, they release a new version. This one’s got pattern matching, tuples, and local functions along with improvements to existing features. Chris shows you where to dive in.
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Azure Skyline: Building and Deploying Services to Azure with .NET Core and Docker
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Last updated: Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2017 - March/April, EPS/CODE Articles & Whitepapers
Today’s devs have to be nimble. Your app has to work on a multitude of platforms and meet any number of platform-specific demands. Mike explains how a new tool called Docker can help you deploy your apps on everything from Linux to .NET and leave you hardly breaking a sweat.
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Getting Down to Business Building an ASP.NET Core API Service
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Last updated: Friday, May 28, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2017 - January/February
Building an API-based app doesn’t have to be daunting. Rick shows you how to use Angular 2.0 to build a small app that breaks out business logic, uses a repository class to consolidate data access code, and deals with complex relationships and data updates.
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Case Study: Writing Microservices with F#
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Last updated: Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - November/December
If you’re lucky enough to be involved in building a new enterprise system, you’ll want to check this out. Rachel takes a look at how the company where she works made some interesting—and forward-looking—decisions, and she shows us the benefits of microservices while she’s at it.
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Simplest Thing Possible: Dynamic Lambda Expressions—Part 3
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Last updated: Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - November/December
If you want to re-use some of the concepts John introduced in the last two issues, you’ll want to learn all about Dynamic Lambda Expressions work in .NET.
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Getting to the ASP.NET Core
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Last updated: Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - September/October
New releases ASP.NET Core and .NET Core have come up with some interesting high-level architecture that you’ll want to read about. You’ll definitely want to play with these tools after Rick shows you some cool new tricks.
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.NET Standard 2.0 - Making Sense of .NET Again
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Last updated: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Published in: The Web View
In this post I look at what .NET Standard is, how it works and what some of the surrounding issues and impacts are for the .NET eco system.
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