Check for Breaking Changes with ApiCompat
When we maintain a library that's used by others, we want to shield them from breaking changes and use SemVer as a way of indicating breaking changes...…
dotnetcore
A collection of 13 posts
Property Based Testing your API Response Types with F#
In this post I'll be looking at an F# ASP.NET Core web app and a technique for ensuring correctness when taking a contract-first approach with...…
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...…
Trying Out Daily Builds of Roslyn
I wanted to try out a daily build of Roslyn to see the effect of a recent change to the C# compiler. I know how to do this for older .NET Framework...…
.NET Core 3 Local Tools
.NET Tools are great, and we've known them for a while in .NET Core as ".NET Core Global Tools", but often we don't want these tools to be shared...…
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,...…
.NET Framework Reference Assemblies via NuGet
In a previous post [https://stu.dev/how-to-target-net4x-on-macos/] I showed how to build for net4x on macOS, and it turns out you have everything you...…
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...…
Displaying Images in iTerm from .NET Console Apps
Now that dotnet global tools are a thing, we are seeing an explosion of cool new cross platform command line apps being built with dotnet. A recent...…
.NET Framework Support for .NET Standard 2.0
When .NET Standard 2.0 was introduced, it wasn't plain sailing. .NET Standard 1.5 and 1.6 were already a thing, and they included APIs from .NET...…
Adding AssemblyMetadataAttribute using new SDK project, with MSBuild
Now that we have the new project system, and we can define common assembly info in our .csproj, we can say good-bye to AssemblyInfo.cs, well, I still...…