Code Maze Weekly #162

Issue #162 of the Code Maze weekly.

Check out what’s new this week and enjoy the read.

.NET and C# Top Picks

• Using Hangfire with ASP.NET Core [damienbod.com]
  Hangfire is a very popular open-source library for performing background processing in .NET. You can learn more about it in this article by Damien Bowden.
• How to use Discriminated Unions Today in C# [www.youtube.com]
  If you want to use one of the most requested features of C#, discriminated unions, after watching this video by Nick Chapsas you will be able to do that even before it’s officially out.

Other Great Reads

• A Simple Example of Amazon Transcribe with .NET [nodogmablog.bryanhogan.net]
• Getting the JSON sent to a Lambda Function when Deserialization Fails [nodogmablog.bryanhogan.net]
• Unable to unprotect the message.State – ASP.NET Core [josef.codes]
• Creating a custom Main method in a WPF application [www.meziantou.net]
• How to generate TwiML using Strings in C# [swimburger.net]
• AvatarView in .NET MAUI Community Toolkit [askxammy.com]
• Building the final RequestDelegate: Behind the scenes of minimal APIs – Part 7 [andrewlock.net]
• Async Event Methods and preventDefault() in JavaScript [weblog.west-wind.com]
• Re-thinking the Visitor Pattern with the Double-Dispatch Approach [exceptionnotfound.net]
• Combining 11ty Static Site Generator with ASP.NET Core [khalidabuhakmeh.com]

YouTube

• C#/WPF – Material Design in XAML work [www.youtube.com]
• Brain Teaser: Mutating Strings Part 2 [www.youtube.com]
• Shared – VERTICAL SLICE ARCHITECTURE #5 [www.youtube.com]
• The List Best Practice That .NET 8 Makes Possible [www.youtube.com]
• One LINQ Extension Method You NEED To Know For Cleaner EF Core Queries [www.youtube.com]
• How Structured Logging With Serilog Can Make Your Life Easier [www.youtube.com]

News & Updates

• Visual Studio 2022 can now Always Update on Close! [devblogs.microsoft.com]
• Announcing .NET 8 Preview 1 [devblogs.microsoft.com]
• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 1 [devblogs.microsoft.com]
• EF Core 8 Preview 1: Raw, lazy, and on-time [devblogs.microsoft.com]
• PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code February 2023 Update [devblogs.microsoft.com]

Podcasts

• Monsters Weekly 263 – Postgresql and Entity Framework [aspnetmonsters.com]
• Modern Web Front End Development with Amy Kapernick [www.dotnetrocks.com]
• Pivoting into Cybersecurity with John Westgarth [dotnetcore.show]
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Weak Isolation and Snapshotting [www.codingblocks.net]
• The Web’s Next Transition with Kent C. Dodds – Hanselminutes Podcast 878 [www.youtube.com]
• Why We do Tech Outreach with Coding By Sophy – Hanselminutes Podcast 879 [www.youtube.com]

Other Interesting Articles

• Building a little notification engine for Tailscale events [jussiroine.com]
• A few tips for using MacOS, when you have a strong Windows background [jussiroine.com]
• Assigning Service Principals to Groups and Roles with the Azure CLI [markheath.net]
• Fetching Credentials with the Azure CLI [markheath.net]
• Invoke the Azure DevOps API from within your Azure DevOps pipeline [timdeschryver.dev]
• The Challenge of Microservices: UI Composition [codeopinion.com]
• Say it with me “Silverlight is dead” [www.mobilize.net]

Programming & Life

• Down the Cloudflare / Stripe / OWASP Rabbit Hole: A Tale of 6 Rabbits Deep 🐰 🐰 🐰 🐰 🐰 🐰 [www.troyhunt.com]
• The job market for new grads: worse than in 2008, but better than 2002 [blog.pragmaticengineer.com]
• When Should I Quit? How Do I Know When to Move On? [www.youtube.com]

Weekly Dose of Humor

• When I ask my coworker to show me how his proof of concept is doing [thecodinglove.com]
• When I have tons of warnings the build but my code works correctly [thecodinglove.com]
• When I notice a dead pixel on my screen [thecodinglove.com]
• When the client insists for a prototype demo [thecodinglove.com]