Replace FluentAssertions with AI
New year - new .NET drama. You would have thought that positive lessons had been learned from the last Moq drama; but we were proven wrong.
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15
Jan
2025
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13
Jan
2025
Advanced Usage of MSSQL Indexed Views in EF Core
In the world of Microsoft SQL Server , views are a powerful tool for simplifying complex data queries. Simple views offer no real performance gain but are often used to implement simple database queries (I still would prefer App implementations over Database implementations for simple views). But indexed views offer a real performance gain.
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07
Jan
2025
Use a hidden Google API to load favicons
Recently I have been working more and more with HTML and frontend development in general and had the task of loading favicons from various addresses to make links more visually attractive.
Here I came across a hidden Google API to load favicons.
03
Jan
2025
Increase Command Timeout for EF Core Migration Bundles
EF Core Migration Bundles
are standalone executable files that contain one or more Entity Framework Core
migrations and can be applied directly to a database. They are particularly useful for deploying migrations independently of the source code or development environment, e.g. in production environments.
Using migration bundles simplifies the deployment process as no additional software or configuration is required to perform the migrations. In CI/CD systems like Azure DevOps
in particular, they can be executed across all platforms on all operating systems and therefore offer a flexible alternative to DACPAC deployments
, which are often dependent on Windows tooling.
08
Dec
2024
Create a custom proxy endpoint action with ASP.NET Core MVC
There are various reasons why it is useful to channel certain requests through your own application to an external endpoint; the most obvious is, for example, as a workaround for client statistics from browser adblockers like Microsoft Clarity or Cloudflare Web Analytics.
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03
Dec
2024
Load Google Search Crawler IP Address Ranges with Refit
Rate Limit is a great tool to protect your own website and content from misuse; in some cases, however, rate limiting is also bad: for example, if you want your own content to be indexed by Google Search in order to increase your own visibility.
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28
Nov
2024
Replace and remove whitespaces in strings - performant and sustainable
There are many ways to remove spaces or other characters in a string - there are just very big differences in terms of performance and efficiency.
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26
Nov
2024
Auto Format your Code on save with Visual Studio
Code formatting is a very important element when developers work together on a project - and you are always well advised not to invent your own formatting rules, but to use those that are a standard or de facto standard in the respective programming language.
In C#, many rules are now controlled via the editorconfig
, but there is still a lack of standardized formatting tools in .NET - dotnet format simply does not support many things - so that different functionalities exist in different IDEs (Visual Studio
, Visual Studio Code, Rider).
20
Nov
2024
Sustainable Code with .NET 9
Sustainable Code is a constantly growing GitHub repository created by me
, in which I collect various everyday code snippets and measure the performance of the different implementation ways.
The goal is to create a collection of code that virtually everyone has in front of them every day and can thus easily implement the best way for themselves and their use case.
10
Oct
2024
Use ServiceCollection in Unit Tests with .NET
A popular unit test - and also a necessary test - is the correct registration of interfaces and their implementation with dependency injection. And a common mistake is that the associated IServiceCollection interface is used for mocks that lead to faulty tests.
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