C# Digest - C#519 Journey through the .NET World

Journey through the .NET World: Behind Old and New Names
23 minutes by Doğa Aydın

In 2002, a new era began with the introduction of the .NET Framework. This platform offered developers the opportunity to escape the complexities of COM and provided a more reliable working environment. By providing a managed code-based development environment, it created a type of code exempt from low-level operations and active memory management.

How I Cut 22.3 Seconds Off an API Call with Sentry
sponsored by Sentry

Struggling with slow API calls? 🕒 Dan Mindru walks through how he used Sentry's new Trace View feature to shave off 22.3 seconds from an API call that handles HTTP calls, file I/O, AI generation, and DB queries. Get a practical walkthrough of how to identify bottlenecks, parallelize tasks, and identify slow AI model calls, all with the help of Trace View.

Unit Testing in .NET: Tools and Techniques
7 minutes by Theodore Karropoulos

Unit testing is a fundamental practice that help us to ensure that each part of our code works correctly. In this article I will try to explain what unit testing is, why it is important and how we can perform unit testing in .NET using simple tools and techniques.

Logging Performance Improvements with Source Generators in C# .NET
4 minutes by Ricardo Mauro

Let's explore how to use source generators for logging, the improvements and benefits they bring, and some practical tips to get the most out of this feature.

How to implement customized role permissions in ASP.NET Core
10 minutes by Ali Hamza Ansari

You often need to add authentication and authorization when developing an application for a user base. But what are they? Why are they so important? This blog post will define these terms and discuss how to implement custom role permissions in an ASP.NET Core API.

What Are C# Type Unions?
4 minutes by Peter Ritchie

The rumor is that a type union feature may make its way into the next version of C#. The next version of C# will be 13, and C# has been around since 2000. What do type unions mean to C#?

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