How Hello World! changed – top level statements and functions (C# 9)

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)

.NET Core

It’s all in the Host Class – Part 2: Configuration

.NET Core gives flexible options to configure app settings. The Host class has DI, configuration, and logging built-in. Let’s look into the configuration part of the Host class. Continue reading It’s all in the Host Class – Part 2: Configuration

.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Azure, Blazor, Conference, CSharp, Entity Framework Core, UWP, WPF, Xamarin, XAML

Microsoft Build 2020 – Highlights

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

.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Azure

Azure App Configuration: Configuration of .NET Applications

In older solutions I’ve created a service that returns all the different configurations used by different projects in a solution, … Continue reading Azure App Configuration: Configuration of .NET Applications

.NET Core

It’s all in the Host Class – Dependency Injection with .NET

In the first article of this series, dependency injection is introduced, and I’m showing how a dependency injection container can be created with the Host class. Continue reading It’s all in the Host Class – Dependency Injection with .NET

.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Azure

Project Tye – easier development with .NET for Kubernetes

Visual Studio 2019 has great support for Docker and Kubernetes. After opening a solution, Dockerfile files and Helm charts can be added from within the Solution Explorer. For simple project, it still can be too complex to work with Helm chats, define deployments and services. Defining a Dockerfile can be avoided as well. With .NET projects, all the information needed to create a docker image can be found in the project file. This is where the Project Tye comes into play – deploy Microservices to Kubernetes with minimal configuration. In this article I’m showing an example creating a .NET Core web application and API service, let it run locally with tye, and deploy it to an Kubernetes cluster. Continue reading Project Tye – easier development with .NET for Kubernetes

CSharp

C# 9 – Positional or Nominal Creation

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

.NET Core, ASP.NET Core

Creating a Windows Service with .NET Core 3.0

In a previous version of a Professional C# book I’ve written a complete chapter on how to create Windows Services … Continue reading Creating a Windows Service with .NET Core 3.0

.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, CSharp

Async Streaming with ASP.NET Core SignalR and C# 8

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

CSharp

Alignment with C# 8 Switch Expressions

Recently I’ve written two blog articles about the new C# 8 switch expression. I’ve changed my last blog article to … Continue reading Alignment with C# 8 Switch Expressions