Geoff Mazeroff

.NET Move Cross-Cutting Concerns Where They Should Be in .NET (via Nick Chapsas) Note: This is specific to MediatR. You create a pipeline behavior that handles a given request with a given response. You have to add the behavior at…

.NET Why Microsoft Made Their New Frozen Collections Slower (via Nick Chapsas) From a previous video, we learned about .NET 8 having FrozenDictionary and FrozenSet that are immutable (only support reading). However, to create these read-optimized collections, you pay for…

.NET I Lied! The Fastest C# Loop Is Even Weirder (via Nick Chapsas) These approaches are unsafe; you should know exactly what you’re doing. From a previous video, for is fastest safe loop. (In .NET 8, for and foreach are…

.NET The Best .NET Mapper to Use in 2023 (via Nick Chapsas) The Problem with Time that .NET 8 Finally Fixed (via Nick Chapsas) Culture Beware a Culture of Busyness (via HBR) How to Tell If a Potential Employer Has…

.NET The Switch Keyword in C# is a LIE! (via Nick Chapsas) Technology The New GitHub Copilot X Powered by GPT-4 is Here! (via Nick Chapsas)

.NET The Easiest Way to Create Serverless APIs in .NET (via Nick Chapsas) From Zero to Hero: Unit Testing in C# This video training course explains what unit testing is, the fundamentals, techniques, concepts, hands-on examples, and advanced techniques. The…

.NET The Awesome New Queue of .NET 6 That You Skipped (via Nick Chapsas) There’s a PriorityQueue<T, TPriority> type now. The caveat is that you cannot guarantee order within a given priority; only that things are dequeued correctly for their…

.NET Random Finally Gets Its Missing Methods in .NET 8 (via Nick Chapsas) Currently .NET has Random.Shared for non-critical random numbers, and RandomNumberGenerator for secure operations. The latter is about 7x slower. .NET 8 brings in Random.Shared.Shuffle() and Random.Shared.GetItems(source, number…

.NET The Best Way to Validate Your Settings in .NET (via Nick Chapsas) Nick goes into how to create and interact with application settings/options, then shows the problem with options being validated much later than expected. There is a ValidateOnStart…