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I've actually used a few of these at my job. I hope to use some of these in the near future with .NET 6.
This week was very informative, thank you! I haven't heard about standard feature flags before, and the post about LINQ was surprising. DiagnosticListener might also come in handy some day.
Great concept coverage on articles!
Loved the article about The Operation Result Pattern, which I recommended to friends and colleagues, and made me migrate my Azure Function to .NET 6.

#439 – January 30, 2023

Server-side caching strategies: How do they work?

Cache-aside, Read-through, Write-through, Write-behind: quite easy on the surface, but let's go a little deeper.

[Free On-Demand Course] Terraforming Kubernetes (sponsor)

In this 1-hour course, you’ll learn how to spin up a Kubernetes cluster using Terraform. Hosted by best-selling Udemy instructor and author, Justin Mitchel, the course also covers the requirements for Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) to deploy a pre-built public container from DockerHub on our cluster.

A pattern for methods that return a status, including localization

This article is about a library that allows you to create methods that can return a status, that is a success or fail value, plus the error messages – “returning a status”.

Programming SVGs with C#

In this post, you'll learn how to take an existing SVG and create a programmable visual asset with some C# code.

Deep nesting - Why and how to avoid

With Extraction and Inversion (plus ternary operators), we can reduce nesting a lot. The main advantage is that it is obvious to the reader what is important! We have a clear flow.

Keyboard Shortcuts to Master Your Git Flow in Visual Studio

Optimize your efficiency with Git in Visual Studio with Keyboard shortcuts. Speed up creating a new branch, committing changes, and more.

Using Command Binding in Windows Forms apps to go Cross-Platform

The WinForms code-behind approach has always made app development in WinForms unrivaled fast. For complex line-of-business apps, however, it can become an architectural challenge. New Command- and Data Binding Features in .NET 7 make UI-Controllers and MVVM an alternative and allow them also be reused in UI stacks like .NET MAUI.

5 .NET MAUI Features for Building Great Desktop Apps

When developing desktop apps with .NET MAUI there are great built in features that you can integrate into your apps to deliver a higher quality experience for the form factor. Today, we take a look at 5 unique features to consider in your apps.

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