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An Introduction to Channels in C#

Channels give us a way to communicate between concurrent (async) operations in .NET. Channel<T> was included in .NET Core 3.0 (so it's been available for a bit over a year now). I first encountered channels in Go (golang) several years ago, so I was really interested when I found out that they are available to use in C#.

Demystifying the volatile keyword

After reading Albahar’s excellent free chapter for his book on Threading I have decided to dig the concept of out of order execution further.

Creating Discoverable HTTP APIs with ASP.NET Core 5 Web API

This month, we’ll be focusing on building HTTP APIs with .NET 5. We’ll explore a myriad of different tools, technologies, and services that make your API development experience more delightful. Each week, we’ll release a new post on this blog that goes into a separate area of building HTTP APIs with .NET, focusing mostly on using ASP.NET Core 5 Web API and the OpenAPI Specification together to build, publish, consume, and re-use well-described HTTP APIs.

Bogus for .NET: Fake data generator

Bogus is a simple and sane fake data generator for .NET languages like C#, F# and VB.NET. It is fundamentally a C# port of faker.js and inspired by FluentValidation's syntax sugar. It will help you load databases, UI and apps with fake data for your testing needs.

Warden.NET: A simple to use library for managing processes and their states

The System.Diagnostics.Process class, while useful, does not have a concept for parent applications; In contrast, Windows itself tracks parents; however, it does not track grandparents, and processes can quickly become orphaned. Process.EnableRaisingEvents while useful, does not support monitoring URI-based launches' lifetime, processes with higher privileges than the calling application, or processes different sessions.

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