The System.Text.Json serializer that was introduced with .NET Core 3.0 gets new features with every new .NET version. With .NET 7, features such as type hieararchies, contract customization, and source generator features have been added. This article shows using the JSON serializer with a hierarchy, and using a source generator. Continue reading System.Text.Json Serializing Hierarchical Data
EF Core has powerful options to map your domain model to a relational database. In this article, I’ll show you how to use the Fluent API to configure a hierarchy of generic classes to map to a single table, and to convert a collection to a store a single string in the database. #dotnet #efcore Continue reading EF Core Mapping with TpH, Generic Types and Value Conversion
The last time the [Thrive conference](https://thriveconf.com) was held was in 2019. Now it’s happening again May, 24-25 2022 in Bistrica, Slovenia. I’m excited to give two presentations and a one-day workshop. Are you attending in-person? Continue reading Thrive Conference in Slovenia
Exceptions of type NullReferenceException are the most common errors with .NET applications. With C# 8, nullable reference types have been introduced to get rid of these exceptions. The new .NET 6 and C# 10 project templates turn on nullable reference types. Over the times, many features in regard to nullability have been added to C#! This article shows many of these features. Continue reading C# Nullable Features thru the times
The new edition of my book is available – covering .NET, C#, WinUI, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and more! Compared to the previous edition, it not only covers the newest editions of C# and .NET, you don’t have to carry a book with 1500 pages – the number of pages have been reduced – but I made sure that all the important topics are covered, you shouldn’t miss anything important topics needed to develop applications with .NET, C#, and Microsoft Azure. Continue reading Professional C# and .NET – 2021 Edition
Bonus chapter for Professional C# 7 and .NET Core 2 with updates for C# 8: nullable reference types, using declaration, readonly members, default interface members, async streams, switch expressions, pattern matching enhancements, indices and ranges, and more! Continue reading C# 8 Updates
C# 9 comes with many new features to enhance productivity and fix bugs. One productivity enhancement comes for small and simple programs also helps learning C#: top level statements. This also allows for a new way to create a “Hello World” program with C#. It’s not the first time that a new C# language feature made a change for “Hello World”. This also happened with C# 6. Let’s come on a tour how “Hello World” changed during the C# years, and what’s going on with top level statements and functions. Continue reading How Hello World! changed – top level statements and functions (C# 9)
This Microsoft Build 2020 conference was very different from all the previous ones as a digital experience event because of the COVID-19 Coronavirus. Microsoft made it a great experience – with announcements on Microsoft Azure, .NET 5, Windows, and more.
Here’s my view with a summary of announcements. Continue reading Microsoft Build 2020 – Highlights
C# allows writing code with positional or nominal code style. Using positional code style, constructors can be used. Object initializer … Continue reading C# 9 – Positional or Nominal Creation
ASP.NET Core SignalR version 2.1 offers streaming from the server to the client. Using ASP.NET Core 3.0, streams can also … Continue reading Async Streaming with ASP.NET Core SignalR and C# 8
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