Like many developers, my blogging journey started with WordPress. More than 20 years ago. It was convenient, widely supported and quick to set up. But over time, the drawbacks began to pile up: security issues, constant …
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When working with asynchronous or parallel code in C#, you’ll inevitably encounter two common ways to start tasks: Task.Run and TaskFactory.StartNew. At first glance, they seem similar - but they behave differently and …
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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) server acts as a centralized context management backend for advanced AI applications. Unlike traditional session or prompt-based approaches, the MCP server manages a persistent, …
Read Blog Post.NET does not have a built-in mechanism for querying DNS records; nevertheless, this is a use case that is required relatively often.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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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