C#496 A primer on transaction management in Entity Framework

A primer on transaction management in Entity Framework
6 minutes by Dennis Frühauff

Whenever you are doing work within Entity Framework, there is (almost) no chance that you are doing it without transactions – whether you are aware of it or not.

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The Dangers That You Need to Know about async void
9 minutes by Nick Cosentino

Learn why async void methods in C# can be dangerous with clear code examples. A perfect for beginner software engineers wanting to understand the risks.

An introduction to the heap data structure and .NET's priority queue
9 minutes by Andrew Lock

In this post I provide an introduction to the heap data structure, describe why it's useful, and show how it's used in .NET's PriorityQueue type.

Mocking authorization tokens with WireMock.NET
7 minutes by Czezary Piatek

Testing applications that require authorization presents a unique set of challenges, especially when it comes to simulating different user permissions. Using an actual authorization server and manually creating test users with specific roles and claims can quickly become cumbersome when trying to cover a wide range of permission combinations.

Dumping the managed heap in C#
19 minutes by Kevin Gosse

Using unsafe hacks to walk the managed heap from within a .NET application, without relying on the debugging API.

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