Do Away with Static Image Placeholders with BlurHash on Xamarin
When building a content rich mobile app with lots of imagery, what we often do make a web request that returns some JSON of content containing image...…
csharp
A collection of 9 posts
Video - An Intro into Async Streams & Channels
I recently gave a talk at DDD North [https://www.dddnorth.co.uk/] talking about some pitfalls in async in C#, and covering Async Streams and...…
Pro Tip: using static Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.StatusCodes
When building a web server in ASP.NET Core, the APIs that deal with status codes are int based, there are multiple ways to express a status code in...…
Defer with C# 8.0
Go (https://golang.org [https://golang.org/]) has a really nice little language feature called defer, which is a keyword that lets you defer a...…
C# 8.0 and .NET Standard 2.0 - Doing Unsupported Things
If you haven't heard, C# 8.0 is not supported on anything below .NET Core 3. This is in part due to the fact that some of the features cannot run on...…
A Look at JsonDocument and System.Text.Json
Today I was writing a tool that needed to handle JSON, the content was relatively large and I only needed to pick out a few parts of the structure,...…
Testing with HttpClient Interception
In my last post [https://stu.dev/generating-typed-client-for-httpclientfactory-with-nswag/] I showed how to automatically generate a typed client for...…
Generating a Typed Client for use with HttpClientFactory using NSwag
If you're a .NET developer building web apps or microservices, odds are at some point you're going to want to call an HTTP API from an ASP.NET Core...…
Miscellaneous C# Async Tips
There are lots of great async tips out there, here a random few that I've collected over the past couple of years that I haven't seen much written...…