Code Maze Weekly #87

Issue #87 of the Code Maze weekly.

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

.NET and C#

• Creating a Dapper Helper C# Class to Generate Parameterized SQL [exceptionnotfound.net]
  Do you need a generic, yet fast way to create insert, and update SQL statements in Dapper? Check out this blog post by Matthew Jones.
• XML Made Easy – LINQ to XML [codingsight.com]
  Sooner or later we get a chance to work with XMLs. LINQ to XML is an in-memory interface for XML manipulation and you might want to check this article by Ivan Matec to see if it suits your needs.
  

Worthy Reads

• 6 Reasons To Use ViewComponents in ASP.NET 5 [www.danylkoweb.com]
• Specification Pattern vs Always-Valid Domain Model [enterprisecraftsmanship.com]
• Display colored battery status in C# [csharphelper.com]
• Analyzing Code for Issues: .NET Memory Profiler [dotnettips.wordpress.com]
• Not “Super” Code with Over 7,000 Violations [dotnettips.wordpress.com]
• Domain-Driven Refactoring: Extracting Domain Services [jimmybogard.com]
• Replicating Fashion UI in Xamarin Forms [askxammy.com]
• Comparing Azure Static Web Apps vs Azure WebApps vs Azure Blob Storage Static Sites [devblogs.microsoft.com]
• Removing elements after an animation in Blazor [www.meziantou.net]
• The source at nuget.org [https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/] is unreachable. [FIXED] [blog.dotnetframework.org]
• Message Driven Architecture to DECOUPLE a Monolith [codeopinion.com]
• ML{.NET} Introduction [codingsight.com]
• Securing ASP.NET Core Razor Pages, Web APIs with Azure B2C external and Azure AD internal identities [damienbod.com]
• Converting chunks to a string with ToString(): A deep dive on StringBuilder – Part 3 [andrewlock.net]
• How Does the StringBuilder Work in .NET? (Part 3) [www.stevejgordon.co.uk]

News & Updates

• Speed up your .NET and C++ development with Hot Reload in Visual Studio 2022 [devblogs.microsoft.com]
• .NET Framework July 2021 Cumulative Update Preview [devblogs.microsoft.com]

Live & Presentation

• Monsters Weekly 218 – Automated Accessibility Testing with Playwright + Axe [aspnetmonsters.com]
• Episode 205 – Polly with Bryan Hogan [6figuredev.com]

Other Interesting Articles

• Parse Redis-CLI Connection URI To Use With StackExchange.Redis [khalidabuhakmeh.com]
• Optimize your cloud spend with Azure [azure.microsoft.com]

On Programming & Life

• No Time Like the Present – Why We Need a New Generation of Software Developers [simpleprogrammer.com]
• How Much Does It Cost To Build a Shopping App? [simpleprogrammer.com]

Weekly Dose of Humor

• When I explain to the intern how he should build his SQL query [thecodinglove.com]
• When the client uses the app without reading the documentation [thecodinglove.com]
• When they ask me about the progress on my ongoing bug [thecodinglove.com]