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What did my code just do? That is a critical question that developers always need to know. Application logging, tracing, and profiling are the primary ways that developers can answer this question. In this article, we’ll review ASP.NET tracing and how to view your tracing statements with Prefix. No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. Intro to ASP.NET Tracing Tracing is built …
SQL performance tuning is a never ending battle. I’m not a DBA, but I am a developer who has pretended to be one for 15 years. I have worked with SQL Server databases with terrabytes of RAM all the way down to Stackify’s massive fleet of little SQL Azure databases. I have seen a little bit of everything over the …
Docker is an open-sourced project that uses containers instead of virtual machines to run server applications. This is a setup that uses fewer resources for development and hosting, so it’s no wonder that Docker is taking the development world by storm. You can even use Docker with ASP.NET, and of course, you can leverage Stackify’s Retrace with your existing stack, including Docker, …
Microsoft and the .NET community have made asynchronous programming very easy with their implementation of async await in C#. The latest versions of ASP.NET heavily utilize it to improve performance. Many performance monitoring and profiling tools struggle to support and visualize the performance of asynchronous C# code. No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. Stackify’s Prefix & Retrace products both have excellent support …
Exception handling is a critical component of every software application. The last thing you want is your users to see weird errors, or even worse, your application keeps crashing. In this article we are going to discuss how to find and catch all exceptions in C# applications. .NET provides several different ways to catch exceptions and view unhandled exceptions. No …
Developing in .NET provides several powerful benefits, including less overall code, improved security, ease of updates/changes, and language independence. No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. That said, the system isn’t without errors and problems. From common exceptions to coding mistakes to incorrect assumptions, most of these issues come down to programmer error. The list below shares the 50 top .NET …
Microsoft’s .NET Framework is incredibly popular, and its widespread use is one of the reasons C# is gaining ground as one of the most popular and most-used programming languages. What’s more, .NET Core, a modular, open-source (check out the code on GitHub) development stack that’s already used by ASP.NET and .NET Native, is quickly gaining speed, which will heavily influence the …
RestSharp is one of the several ways to create a web service or web request in .NET; we discuss a few other such options in this post. In today’s post, though, we’ll take a look at RestSharp specifically, its features and benefits, and a few examples of RestSharp in action. No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. Definition of RestSharp RestSharp is …
Welcome to Build and our Build 2017 review of day two! You can read our review of day one here: No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. Microsoft Build 2017 Review of Day One – Azure News & Updates The theme of day two was all about love and engagement. New ways for developers to get their users to love their apps …
Welcome to Build and our Build 2017 review of day one! You can read our review of day two here: No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. Microsoft Build 2017 Review of Day Two – Windows News & Updates The day of course started with the normal cattle herd and a long wait to get into the keynote. Maybe it is …
Null reference errors are responsible for a good percentage of all application bugs. They are usually very simple problems caused by not adding additional logic to ensure that objects have valid values before using them. Here are some ways to avoid NullReferenceException. No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. The following code will throw a NullReferenceException if the variable “text” being passed …
Exceptions can cause big performance problems. One of the most important performance metrics to track about your application is “# of Exceps Thrown / Sec“. It is available via Windows Performance Counters under the category .NET CLR Exceptions. In this article we will talk about exceptions, how to monitor your exception rate and find the actual exceptions being thrown. No …
The .NET Framework provides a couple built in ways to convert a C# string to int, or several other numeric datatypes. It is important that you do so in a way that does not throw potential exceptions. No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. Unsafe Ways to Convert a C# String to Int You can use a couple built in methods, …
What is an Unhandled Exception? An exception is a known type of error. An unhandled exception occurs when the application code does not properly handle exceptions. No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. For example, When you try to open a file on disk, it is a common problem for the file to not exist. The .NET Framework will then throw a …
Welcome to Stackify’s guide to C# exception handling. In this article we cover the following topics: No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. Basics about C# Exceptions, including examples Common .NET Exceptions How to Create Your Own Custom C# Exception Types How to Find Hidden .NET Exceptions C# Exception Logging Best Practices What is an Exception? Exceptions are a type of …
When you think of Docker, you probably don’t think of .NET or Windows. There are a lot of good reasons to use Docker with ASP.NET. Check out our top 10 list of reasons to use Docker with .NET to see if Docker can help you! No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. 1. Pre-Made Runtime Environment Generally, when you set up …
If you have used .NET Core, you have probably battled with the new built-in .NET Core LoggerFactory which is in Microsoft.Extensions.Logging. It has created a lot of confusion around logging with ASP.NET Core. At Stackify, we have logging integrations for log4net, NLog, Serilog, and our direct API. We have a lot of experience with building logging appenders and libraries to work with various …
If you are getting started with ASP.NET Core, you are probably wondering what has changed with logging. In short, the answer is both nothing and everything. The common logging libraries you have always used with .NET still work. Microsoft does provide its own interface for logging with .NET Core and it uses it for .NET internals. No worries, no SPAM. …
NLog is a very popular logging framework for .NET. It is second only to log4net in popularity but is much newer and has a few unique features. I recently also wrote a similar tutorial for log4net and after looking at them side by side, NLog has a lot of great features and advantages. No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. …
No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. One of the most requested features by New Relic users is support for .NET Core. If you aren’t familiar with it, .NET Core is Microsoft’s newest version of the .NET framework that is leaner, faster, open source, and can even run on Linux. Does New Relic Support .NET Core? Not as of …
