Geoff Mazeroff

.NET Stop Dealing with EF Core Exceptions Wrong! (via Nick Chapsas) If constraints aren’t met (e.g., max length, uniqueness), EF Core throws a DBUpdateException, which tells you very little about the specific problem. The current solution is to follow inner…

Negotiation How to ask for more — and get it (TED)

Ethics 4 Warning Signs of Ethical Burnout on Your Team (via HBR)

.NET Stop Using IEnumerable The Wrong Way in .NET! | Code Cop #019 (via Nick Chapsas) You can’t return an IEnumerable in a benchmark because it involves deferred execution. That is, something must enumerate the list — .ToList(), foreach, etc. Estimation…

Motivation How to set the right goals and stay motivated (via TED)

.NET The New Option and Result Types in C# (via Nick Chapsas)

.NET Give Your Strings Meaning (via Nick Chapsas) There are several types of content — e.g., JSON, regular expressions — that are strings. Since .NET 7 there is a StringSyntaxAttribute for arguments where you can specify the type of string….

.NET How Thread Safety is Changing in .NET 9 (via Nick Chapsas) .NET 8 and earlier versions provide a lock block so that you can make operations thread-safe. (Under the hood, this is calling Monitor.Enter and Monitor.Exit.) In .NET 9…

.NET The New ID to Replace GUIDs and Integers in .NET (via Nick Chapsas) This is being introduced in .NET 9, and has to do with relational databases. The issue with GUIDs is that they can cause performance issues when…