Geoff Mazeroff

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.NET The Most Underrated .NET Feature You Must Use Channels can be thought of as in-memory queues. See the official Microsoft docs here. Decisions 5 Questions to Help Your Team Make Better Decisions

.NET Everything a .NET Developer Needs to Know in 2025 This is an updated version of last year’s roadmap — so many things!

.NET Fixing Your Dictionary Problem in .NET A common scenario is checking if a key exists before inserting it. This causes two passes through the hashing algorithm — lookup, insertion. Note that ConcurrentDictionary<T> has a GetOrAdd() method. You can make…

.NET The Problem with Singletons You Need to Avoid For most applications, using the traditional singleton pattern (or using a singleton scope in a service container) is good enough to minimize overhead of things “create once use many.” There are…

.NET Don’t Use This LINQ Feature. It’s Bad. Code Cop #26 This video was about .Skip(x).Take(y) versus .Take(x..y). The performance difference is minor for providing a range argument. The former tends to be more readable as well. The New Way…

Development Writing Safe SQL Queries in .NET There is a NuGet package InterpolatedSql which has a SqlBuilder that requires an interpolated string as an argument. It is database- and ORM-agnostic, however there is InterpolatedSql.Dapper that works specifically with Dapper. Yes,…

.NET You Completely Misunderstand Span in .NET | Code Cop #025 Systems theory Why does it feel like the world is falling apart?

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