Articles filed in category 'Nuget'

Sending Email with SendGrid

By: Matthew Hess

Last updated: Monday, December 8, 2025

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2025 Jul/Aug

Matthew explores the advantages of using SendGrid for sending bulk emails, specifically in C# programming. He highlights the limitations of traditional methods, like SMTPClient and Mailkit, when dealing with a high volume of messages. Hess demonstrates the setup and utilization of SendGrid's REST API, focusing on its C# utility classes and personalizations feature, enabling efficient customization of emails for individual recipients. Additionally, he delves into template creation and management, showcasing SendGrid’s tools for crafting professional-quality email templates. Hess underscores SendGrid’s functionality in simplifying bulk email processes while avoiding issues related to SPAM filters and message limits.

• .NET
• .NET Core
• api
• apis
• ASP .NET Web API
• ASP.NET
• ASP.NET Core
• Best Practices
• C#
• EF Core
• JSON
• Messaging
• Nuget
• REST
• software development
• web

Using Moq: A Simple Guide to Mocking for .NET

By: Elliot Moule

Last updated: Monday, December 8, 2025

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2023 - May/Jun

Moq is a mocking library for C# .NET that can help developers achieve better unit testing by improving the isolation of tests. This article explains how to use Moq for mocking, including its features such as parameter matching, setups, verification, and sequences. Moq's fluent interface is easy to use compared to other mocking libraries and it enforces loosely coupled software design using dependency injection, resulting in modular code that is easier to test, read, and extend. The article concludes with additional resources for further reading on Moq.

• .NET
• Architecture
• C#
• Display Technologies
• Nuget
• Testing
• Unit Testing

Working with NuGet Local Packages

By: Karen Payne

Last updated: Thursday, November 30, 2023

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2021 - September/October

Working with NuGet Local Packages

• Nuget

Chocolatey on Windows

By: Daniel Franciscus

Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2019 - January/February

Using Chocolatey’s graphical user interface, you can bundle code into packages for easy replication and distribution. This is great news if you’ve got several versions of your client software, and you’ll appreciate Dan’s tour of Microsoft’s Chocolatey tool.

• Chocolatey
• Nuget
• Package Management