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…