A NullReferenceException is a common error that occurs in .NET applications when a null reference is accessed as if it were an object. This can happen when you attemp to call a method or access a property of a reference …
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Bicep has a great feature, which meanwhile also leads to warnings during execution if you don’t pay attention to it: the avoidance of static values like URLs in Bicep files. A corresponding warning looks like this:
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A full-text catalog in Microsoft SQL Server is a specialized storage that is used to store and manage full-text indexes for one or more tables in a database. A full-text index is a special type of index that is used to …
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Microsoft Ignite is a classic IT conference, but it also has news for us developers regarding innovations in our ecosystem.
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Expressions are now an absolute part of a developer’s everyday life in .NET thanks to Linq. However, due to their nature, expressions are not one of the very best performing tools, which is why the .NET team is also …
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.NET has two principal ways for handling times: DateTime and DateTimeOffset . The big deficit of DateTime, which was also recognized early in .NET 1.0, is that it is not clear from the DateTime information which time …
Read Blog PostMicrosoft has announced in an impressive blog post on the .NET DevBlogs that they have started an enterprise-wide migration to migrate backend services.
Read Blog PostSometimes it is quite useful to be able to send a query to the MSSQL server independently of its schema; for example to check if the server is principally reachable and the connection information as well as the …
Read Blog PostBeginning with C# 3, variables that are declared at method scope can have an implicit “type” var. An implicitly typed local variable is strongly typed just as if you had declared the type yourself, but the compiler …
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There are several ways to integrate source code including code highlighting into blogs, but GitHub Gists are by far the most convenient and best maintained option. Especially for Medium blogs, since Medium does not offer …
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