Nowadays, you can’t actually run a website on the Internet without having a protection mechanism against content bots. One possibility is the use of CAPTCHAs. CAPTCHAs are small tasks that a human can easily solve, but a bot (almost) cannot.
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With .NET 9, Microsoft has added new options to the System.Text.Json library to format the output of JSON objects - features that, in my opinion, should have been available with day 1.
The recommended variant for specifying the SDK in .NET is the global.json file. This centrally guarantees that all computers on which the code is compiled ideally have the same SDK installed and use it.
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For several years now, C# has supported Records as a new “type”. Initially only for classes (which is why the class is optional for a record class), later also for structs. Records are specially designed for use as data containers aka DTOs (please dont use DTO in your class name!). They are immutable and have special semantics for equality.
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Anti-idle apps for Microsoft Teams and the like are a dime a dozen, but how about creating your own? In this article, I’ll show you how to create an anti-idle app for Microsoft Teams using .NET and C#.
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QR Codes are a very popular way to pass on information - for example an URL. The QR code can be placed on all kinds of places, for example in parking lots for buying parking tickets.
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The Microsoft Graph and Entra documentation are both very comprehensive and provide a lot of information - but they often contain no examples or no working examples. In addition, the SDKs are either not, insufficiently or incorrectly documented.
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Often you don’t need all the configurations of an app per stage; sometimes they are optional. This is often the case for the development stage in particular.
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If you browse through certain libraries or the .NET Runtime from time to time, you will notice that the attribute MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining can be found in some places - but what is this actually?
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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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