ℹ️This post was originally published on the Telerik Developer Blog. When looking at the C# 14 updates coming out soon, I discovered a feature and thought, "how did this not already exist?" If you've been using C#'s null-conditional operators (?. and ?[]) for years
This is my post for the 2025 C# Advent. Check out all the great posts! Every year, Santa's workshop runs on data: delivery manifests, elf schedules, chimney dimensions, and naughty/nice scores. And like any other legacy system, it's held together with strings, DateTime comparisons, and
This post was originally published on the Telerik Developer Blog. Since C# 3 dropped in 2007, C# developers have been using extension methods to add functionality to types without touching their source code. Whether you're extending types from the .NET BCL, third-party libraries, or even your own
The .NET Aspire series continues with deploying to Azure Container Apps. Using the Azure Developer CLI, we explore how to deploy to the cloud and also explore deployment considerations when pushing to production.
In Part 5, we introduce a brand-new Orders API, teach it to talk to Inventory and see how the Aspire orchestrator handles all the messy wiring for us.
This post was originally published in the Telerik Developer Blog. This is the fourth part of a six-part exploratory series on .NET Aspire. * Part 1: What is .NET Aspire? * Part 2: Exploring the Developer Dashboard * Part 3: Service Defaults * This post (Part 4): Integrations * Part 5: Orchestration and Service
This post was originally published on the Telerik Developer Blog. This is the third part of a six-part exploratory series on .NET Aspire. * Part 1: What Is .NET Aspire? * Part 2: Exploring the Developer Dashboard * This post (Part 3): Service Defaults * Part 4: Integrations * Part 5: Orchestration and Service
This post was originally published on the Telerik Developer Blog. This is the second part of a six-part exploratory series on .NET Aspire. * Part 1: What Is .NET Aspire? * This post (Part 2): Exploring the Developer Dashboard * Part 3: Service Defaults * Part 4: Integrations * Part 5: Orchestration and Service
This post was originally published on the Telerik Developer Blog. This is the first part of a six-part exploratory series on .NET Aspire. * This post (part 1): What Is .NET Aspire? * Part 2: Exploring the Developer Dashboard * Part 3: Service Defaults * Part 4: Integrations * Part 5: Orchestration and Service
This post was originally posted on the Telerik Developer Blog. A new AI model has taken the tech world, and the actual world, by storm. It performs close to, or better than, the GPT 4o, Claude and Llama models. It was developed at a cost of $1.3 billion (rather
This post was originally published on the Telerik Developer Blog. Build 2022 took place last week, giving Microsoft developers a lot to get excited about—whether it’s new Azure bells and whistles, Windows development, developer productivity updates, or tons of other content you can view from the session list.
In this C# Advent post, we have a little fun and talk about some nice, lesser hyped .NET 6 features that might make you happy.
I talk about my favorite things about .NET 6: Hot Reload, Minimal APIs, HTTP logging, Blazor improvements, and more.
In this post, I talk about my experience using the AzCopy tool to migrate files from Amazon S3 to Azure Storage.
Welcome back to my series on new C# 10 features. So far we've talked about file-scoped namespaces [https://www.daveabrock.com/2021/10/05/csharp-10-file-scoped-namespaces/] and global using declarations [https://www.daveabrock.com/2021/10/21/csharp-10-global-usings/]. Today, we'
Let’s learn about what’s new with Fiddler Jam—an end-to-end troubleshooting solution that helps users, support and engineering solve problems quickly.
In this post, I'm writing a quick note to say I'm ending The .NET Stacks.
In this issue, we talk about an eventful week in the .NET community.
In this issue, we talk about the release of .NET 6 RC2 and a new LINQ API.
Let's explore global using directives in C# 10, a nice way to make your namespaces available throughout your project.
This week, we talk about the impact of the brand new .NET 6 templates, and what that means for you.
This week, we explore the question: will we ever see a sleeker "modern C#" language subset?
In this post, let's explore file-scoped namespaces in the new version of C#, C# 10.
This week, we get a closer look at Azure Functions support for .NET 6.
This week, we talk all about the release of .NET 6 RC 1.
This week, we are back!
Let's learn more about Fiddler Jam, an end-to-end troubleshooting solution that helps users, support, and engineering solve problems quickly.
In the latest issue, let's go on a community blog tour.
This week, we're talking about logging improvements that are coming with the .NET 6 release.
Let's talk about GitHub Copilot and a new JSON serialization source generator.
This week, we talk about .NET 6 Preview 6, Visual Studio 2022, and abstracting away Kubernetes.
Let’s look at error boundaries in Blazor, a new feature that allows you to handle Blazor Server unhandled exceptions more easily. We’ll learn what error boundaries are, and what they are not.
This week, let's take a look at Blazor Error Boundaries and Minimal API improvements.
It's a short week this week, but I wanted to send you some links.
.NET 6 Preview 5 has arrived, and so has Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1.
Automating tests is hard. You can make it manageable by using these tips, techniques, and tools to help you speed up the process.
This week, we finish talking about date and time improvements that are coming with the .NET 6 release.
In this post, we learn how to use API versioning in ASP.NET Core.
In this post, I briefly discuss the process of upgrading a Blazor WebAssembly App from .NET 5 to .NET 6.
This week, we talk about Blazor WebAssembly AOT and get updates from the community.
In this post, let's take a tour of Minimal APIs in .NET 6.
In this extended issue, we're recapping Build and walking through the release of .NET 6 Preview 4.
This week, we get ready for Microsoft Build, talk more about .NET 6 Preview 4, and more.
This week we see what's coming with C# 10, talk about Azure Static Web Apps, and more.
Let's talk about reflection and source generators, IdentityServer template news, and more.
In this post, I recap my favorite things about Azure Static Web Apps.
I've migrated my site from Jekyll to Ghost.
What is Azure Web PubSub, and how is it different than SignalR?
This week, we talk about Visual Studio 2022, API updates, and more.
Let's take a look at Dapr, a distributed application runtime that promises to make working with microservices easier.