Issue #204 of the Code Maze weekly.
Check out what’s new this week and enjoy the read.
.NET and C# Top Picks
- Mastering Tuples in .NET [dotnettips.wordpress.com]
Tuples are a useful and practical .NET structure. In this article by David McCarter, you can learn more about utilizing Tuples in your own projects. - Make Your LINQ Up to 10x Faster! [www.youtube.com]
In this video, Nick Chapsas talks about improving your LINQ performance by using hardware acceleration with the Nuget library called SimdLinq.
Other Great Reads
- Mocking authorization tokens with WireMock.NET [cezarypiatek.github.io]
- String Performance: Comparing Strings with Globalization [dotnettips.wordpress.com]
- The case for an application-level tracing API in .NET [nblumhardt.com]
- MAUI ImageButton AspectFit and the Missing Image [irisclasson.com]
- “Secret” elmah.io features #2 – Correlate messages from apps [blog.elmah.io]
- Delegated read and application write access to blob storage using ASP.NET Core with Entra ID authentication [damienbod.com]
- Using Unix domain sockets with ASP.NET Core and HttpClient [andrewlock.net]
- Shoelace Web Components with ASP.NET Core [khalidabuhakmeh.com]
- Using your own data with GPT models in Azure OpenAI – Part 4: Adding vector search [www.strathweb.com]
YouTube
- Generate Blazor Websites in Minutes with Visual Studio’s NEW Scaffolder! [www.youtube.com]
- Collections Made Easy – C# in the Cards Episode 10 [www.youtube.com]
- Updating my personal website from .NET 6 to .NET 8 LTS in 15 min [www.youtube.com]
- .NET Developers should be using dotnet-outdated to update their project’s references [www.youtube.com]
- How to Create Custom Code Snippets in Visual Studio (feat. MAUI Bindable Properties) [www.youtube.com]
- Visual Studio Update: Automatically Close Brackets and Quotes [www.youtube.com]
- “The readonly Keyword Is Useless!” | Code Cop #012 [www.youtube.com]
- How to Implement API Versioning for Minimal APIs | ASP.NET Core 8 [www.youtube.com]
- Clean Architecture: How to Build The Infrastructure Layer [www.youtube.com]
YouTube Shorts
- It’s Not Really “Asynchronous” [www.youtube.com]
- Integrating With Third-Party APIs Was Never Easier [www.youtube.com]
- This Is How To Mock Your Service for Unit Testing [www.youtube.com]
- You Need To Know About .NET Channels for Pub-Sub [www.youtube.com]
Podcasts
- The Observability Tipping Point with Steve Gordon and Martin Thwaites [www.dotnetrocks.com]
- nanoFramework: Unleashing the Power of C# in Embedded Systems and IoT with José Simões [dotnetcore.show]
- Postgres Replication at speed with PeerDB’s Sai Srirampur [www.youtube.com]
Other Interesting Articles
- App Configuration: where does it go? [codeopinion.com]
Programming & Life
- What Is the Progression of a Developer? [www.youtube.com]
Weekly Dose of Humor
- When I realize my test just permanently deleted production data [thecodinglove.com]
- When I hear a colleague say they’re going to assign me a support ticket because I’m the expert [thecodinglove.com]
- When I review the last-minute enhancement requests we just received [thecodinglove.com]
- When I realize 3 hours later that I deployed to the wrong environment [thecodinglove.com]
