C# Digest - C#493 WinForms in a 64-Bit world

WinForms in a 64-Bit world
14 minutes by Klaus Loeffelmann

32-bit components can impose challenges for WinForms developers in a 64-bit Visual Studio environment, but there are options to solve this. Component modernization, migrating to .NET 6+ and a new option to use the out-of-process Designer for Framework are the key to a feasible way forward.

Google and Yahoo Email Updates 2024: What's Changed?
sponsored by Mailtrap

If you send more than 5K emails a day, check Mailtrap's tutorial on the new 'Google and Yahoo email policy 2024'. It breaks down the latest authentication and DNS protocol requirements so you can navigate them with ease.

Reading Raw ASP.NET Request.Body Multiple Times
10 minutes by Rick Strahl

By default Request.Body can only be read once. In this post I discuss why frequently when you need raw Request.Body access you actually need to read the body more than once, and you can enable that functionality and deal with the caveats of doing so.

How to Map SQL Results To Any Object Using Entity Framework Core 8
2 minutes by Khalid Abuhakmeh

Entity Framework 8 and the use of SqlQuery to map results to any C# object.

Using named pipes with ASP.NET Core and HttpClient
9 minutes by Andrew Lock

In this post I describe Windows named pipes, what they are, the scenarios where they're useful, how to use them with ASP.NET Core, and how to call a named pipe ASP.NET Core app using HttpClient.

Property based testing
2 minutes by Bart Wullems

A neat series on property testing originally written for F# but works in C# too.

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