In this part we are going to create our docker image with our application in it. Lets create our own image with dotnet runtime in there. And then put in a dotnet console app in the image. Here is my .net6.0 console program that I will use. var randomGen =…

With .Net running on linux, usage of docker with .Net has become popular. This post goes into some of the basics and some of my experiments with docker. .Net runs on docker. Lets give it a spin. We will need a docker image with .Net installed. Here, I found that…

Delegating handlers are cousins of asp.net core middleware. Lets talk a bit about middlewares, this will help us understand delegating handler easy. This post is a contribution to the .NET advent calendar 2021. https://dotnet.christmas/ Middlewares in asp.net core are super useful and super convenient to write. If you have used…

This is the first part of my learning CSS series. This is where I document the things I am learning. So let’s get to it. From the scratch. What is CSS? A Webpage that you view on the browser is made up of 3 things. Content Style Behaviour As a developer, this is…

I have been mostly a backend developer for more than a decade. I have done some frontend work, but never felt really comfortable with it. I always felt I was trying to just make it work. One of the things that I found hardest in my frontend work was making…

C# properties are great. Getters and Setters were used before C# poperties became popular. You can see a C# property as an easy syntax to make your code look more readable and the compiler maintains the getters and setters for you. Take a look the video I made about it here. Cheers!

Dapper is what I consider one of the essential libraries in the .NET world. It simple, fast and super easy to use. Here is a video that I made on it. In the video I talk about querying in different ways A simple select query A select query with a parameter A select query with 2 parameters. A select query with IN clause.

Array covariance is broken? Yes it is! The code examples I show here applies to C# and it applies to Java as well, because I think Java was the first to make(break?) this. C# unwillingly had to do the same in its language. Variance (Covariance, contravariance, invariance) is a hard…

Most developers are driven to write good quality code. That drive mostly comes from being a developer who learns to do better every single time. Some would write super clean code and maintain it like it’s their baby, following best practices and always on a watch in the code reviews…