C# Digest - C#515 How not to benchmark

How not to benchmark
4 minutes by Steven Giesel

I came across a recent LinkedIn post about the let statement in LINQ and it's performance implication. And in typically influencer fashion it out right claimed that using let in LINQ is a bad idea and should be avoided. But is it a bad idea?

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Composing Linq Queries
1 minute by Shawn Wildermuth

First, when you need to modify a query from input, this is less clunky that two completely different queries. But, more importantly I think, by breaking up a complex query into individual steps, it can help the readability of the query.

Debug your .NET 8 code more efficiently
2 minutes by Bart Wullems

ET 8 introduces a lot of debugging improvements. If you take a look for example at the HttpContext, you see that you get a much better debug summary than in .NET 7.

Disambiguating types with the same name with extern alias
7 minutes by Andrew Lock

In this post I describe a relatively niche scenario, in which you have references to two libraries that both define a given type. This type has the same name in both libraries, so how does the compiler know which one to use?

How To Fix .NET Nullability Warnings For Guarded Members
3 minutes by Khalid Abuhakmeh

Using the System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis namespace to quiet nullability warnings in C# code.

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