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.NET Profilers are a developer’s best friend when it comes to optimizing application performance. They are especially critical when doing low level CPU and memory optimizations. But did you know that there are three different types of profilers? Traditional .NET profilers that track process memory usage, time spent per line of code and frequency of method calls. Lightweight profilers or other …
Being able to execute a SQL performance tuning is a vital skill for software teams that rely on relational databases. Vital isn’t the only adjective that we can apply to it, though. Rare also comes to mind, unfortunately. Many software professionals think that they can just leave all the RDBMS settings as they came by default. They’re wrong. Often, the …
Docker: it’s one of those technologies that seems to be everywhere. Whether you’re a junior developer just starting out or a seasoned .NET developer, at some point in your career, you’ll most likely come across Docker for .NET. So, what is Docker? According to Wikipedia, “Docker is a set of coupled software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service products that use operating-system-level virtualization to develop and …
Are you trying to teach yourself to code? Or are you already an experienced developer who wants to pick another language? In both cases, you know how frustrating it can be to find good tutorials online. Sure, it’s easy to find “tutorials”, but separating the chaff from the wheat is a whole different story. Of course, you have to pick …
Software is a complex thing. As soon as you deploy an application to production—especially when you don’t have any control over the environment it’s running on—anything could happen. You’ve created this “monster” and set if free. It’s now free from your control. How do you tame this beast before it creates havoc? The first step is to trace its steps …
For years now, if you wanted to write code to run in a browser, your choices were JavaScript or JavaScript. For a couple of brief periods on certain browsers, there were other languages you could use, but they weren’t significant: VBScript on IE and Dart on a special build of Chrome. There are also languages that compile down to JavaScript (TypeScript, …
The best-laid plans of mice and men still go off the rails sometimes. Even when you’ve been rigorous and put unit tests in place, there are times when you’ll want to jump in and debug an application or a unit test. In this article, we’ll take a look at 10 tips for .NET debugging. 1. Setting Breakpoints A breakpoint is …
Who doesn’t love a little bit of data access? Most line-of-business applications are built over some sort of data storage, and nine times out of ten it is a relational database. SQL has a long and distinguished pedigree dating back to some time in the 1980s. Unfortunately, relational data doesn’t match the way we use it in object-oriented languages. To …
Logging information in .NET, or really in any production application, is invaluable. In many cases, developers don’t have direct access to the production environment to debug issues. Good quality logs are the difference between solving problems like Sherlock Holmes and stumbling upon solutions like Inspector Jacques Clouseau. As you can imagine, we’re pretty big on logging here at Stackify, and …
In this post, we’re going to take a close look at IIS (Internet Information Services). We’ll look at what it does and how it works. You’ll learn how to enable it on Windows. And after we’ve established a baseline with managing IIS using the GUI, you’ll see how to work with it using the CLI. Let’s get started! What Is …
Recently Microsoft made several changes to the C# language. Some of those may even seem quite strange – definitely not your daddy’s C# anymore The truth is, even though most of this is just “syntactic sugar” – has no equivalent in IL, in the same way that LINQ didn’t require any changes in IL too, the language is changing very …
A long time before Entity Framework (EF) Core was around – or any other Entity Framework for that matter – we already had NHibernate. In this article, I’m going to review Entity Framework and NHibernate, what approaches and differentiates them. History of NHibernate and Entity Framework NHibernate is a port of Hibernate from Java, one of the oldest and most …
Almost every application these days communicates over HTTP: websites, RESTful services, and even SOAP APIs all make use of Hypertext Transfer Protocol. For the most part, we don’t worry too much about what is happening at the network level when we’re building these applications. However, from time to time a problem will show up that needs us to drop to …
.NET Core 2.0 was made publicly available on August 14. Besides .NET Core, .NET Standard 2.0 was released, the standard to which .NET Core 2.0 complies, as well as Entity Framework Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0. Pretty cool, all have the same version number, but I’m sure this won’t go on forever! I almost forgot about NuGet, which also …
Azure Cloud Services and App Service made it relatively easy to run web applications in the cloud. Developers still need a simple way to run tasks on a schedule at pre-defined times or specific intervals . We commonly use simple console apps via the Windows Task Scheduler to handle these needs. WebJobs were released as part of Azure App Service …
C# is rapidly approaching its third decade of life. Originally released in 2000, the language has grown and changed across 7 major versions. Once a knock off of Java in all but name has jumped out ahead on many aspects. Throughout its life, the release of a new version of the language has been highly coupled with releases of new …
Is .NET Core the next big thing? We’ve been toying with it for a while now, and we tend to think that it is. In fact, we predict that there will be a huge demand for developers skilled in this technology in 2018. But how does it differ from the .NET Framework, and what do you need to know to …
C# is a widely used programming language in enterprises, especially those that are heavily Microsoft-dependent. If you build apps using C#, you most likely use Visual Studio and have explored some of its extensions to supercharge your development. However, this list of tools might just change the way you write C# code for good. Best tools for C# programming in …
