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 …
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Microsoft has announced in an impressive blog post on the .NET DevBlogs that they have started an enterprise-wide migration to migrate backend services.
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Sometimes 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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The Microsoft Defender API - or Azure Security Center API - is an interface to obtain security-related information from its M365 or Azure tenant.
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Attention: the following configuration is recommended only for testing or very trusted applications, since username and password could be intercepted (since they are entered directly).
Read Blog PostParsing HTML with .NET can be a useful skill for any developer working on web applications or data analysis projects. One tool that can be particularly helpful in these scenarios is HtmlAgilityPack , an open-source HTML …
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ASP.NET Core provides a built-in mechanism for configuring an application’s options using the Options pattern. This pattern allows you to define a class to represent the options you want to configure and then bind those …
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