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Logging Updates in .NET 8 and ASP.NET 8

Nov 21, 2023 · 4 min read · C# API ASP.NET Logging ·

The recent release of .NET 8 has occurred and as I was updating my Pluralsight course on Logging and Monitoring in ASP.NET Core, I thought it would also be useful to write a post about some of the nice new goodness related to logging and monitoring. Everything that you had in place for recent versions of .NET and …

Using the System.CommandLine Package to Create Great CLI Programs

May 6, 2023 · 8 min read · C# System.CommandLine NBomber ·

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Using the System.CommandLine Package to Create Great CLI Programs

Problem Statement A recent blog post of mine showed a significant performance difference between an async API method and a synchronous one. The performance test was generating 100 new requests each second for 30 seconds, making a total of 3,000 requests. The async code behaved much better under this load, but at what …

Cancellation Tokens in ASP.NET APIs

May 4, 2023 · 5 min read · C# ASP.NET ·

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Background If you're just looking for the code, it's here: https://github.com/dahlsailrunner/async-vs-sync The most recent post I did was all about the improvements that asynchronous code can provide a website when it experiences higher load levels. That led to the notion of cancellation tokens, which I was initially …

Async Versus Sync Code in ASP.NET APIs

May 1, 2023 · 4 min read · C# ASP.NET NBomber ·

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Background If you're just looking for the code, it's here: https://github.com/dahlsailrunner/async-vs-sync I have recently been doing more work relative to performance, and one of the things I wanted to more specifically test and quantify with concrete results was differences between async and synchronous code (I'll …

Using Tuples with Dapper

Apr 16, 2023 · 3 min read · C# ASP.NET Dapper SQLite ·

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Summary Using tuples with Dapper for simple query results can avoid the need to create classes or records that might otherwise bloat your code-base. Here's a sample repo: https://github.com/dahlsailrunner/tuple-with-dapper Background When you have an existing database or management practices that don't involve Entity …

Using Serilog Logging for LaunchDarkly

Apr 8, 2023 · 3 min read · C# ASP.NET LaunchDarkly Serilog ·

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Background I was recently trying to get LaunchDarkly to write its logs using our standard logging configuration - which is Serilog on top of Microsoft.Extensions.Logging. According to the LaunchDarkly docs, this was pretty straight-forward but it turned out to be trickier than I thought. The solution involved getting …

Using Generics and Interfaces to Simplify C# Code

Feb 3, 2023 · 5 min read · C# ASP.NET ·

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Background If you're working in .NET or other languages that support interfaces and generics, you've probably used them. Finding reasons to create them can be more challenging, but I recently came across two completely different instances that clearly benefited from the interface / generic combo and thought they would …

Creating Useful .NET Templates

Aug 9, 2021 · 15 min read · .NET ASP.NET C# templates ·

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tl;dr - just show me the code: https://github.com/dahlsailrunner/knowyourtoolset-templates Templates in .NET are a very helpful feature that enable you to create new files, projects, or even whole solutions with some form of the dotnet new command. I have created and evolved some templates over the past few years and …

Using JSON to Move Beyond TVPs for Multi-Row Updates

Mar 20, 2019 · 3 min read · .NET ADO.NET C# SQL ·

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Many .NET applications will use Table-Valued-Parameters (TVPs) to send in a set of rows to be updated to a single stored procedure. Using this approach requires a decent amount of legwork to achieve: Define a TYPE in SQL Server to represent the table valued parameter Assign permissions to the TYPE so that it can be …

On Exception Handling

May 29, 2015 · 10 min read · C# .NET Development ·

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If your application is living in a production environment then good exception handling is one of the most important things you can do if you want to enable good support for your application (logging is another, but I’ll cover that in another post). A knee-jerk reaction to the question of “how do I do good exception …