Rock Your Code :Coding Standards for Microsoft .NET – 7th Edition

I'm excited to announce the 7th edition of my coding standards book for Microsoft .NET! This book is a compilation of common Microsoft .NET coding standards in use today. In the past, for languages like Visual Basic, Microsoft published coding standards in a single document that developers could follow or use as a basis to …

Coding Faster with dotNetTips Spargine 6: Validating Arguments Made Easy

For my work moving Spargine to .NET 6, I have completely rewritten the Spargine methods to validate method parameters. In this release, these methods have been changed to allow fluent validation.

I Thought I Was a Software Engineer?

Did your parents ever tell you something like this… “Back when I was a kid, I had to walk 3 miles to school, in the snow!”? Well, this article is going to be something like that since I’m going to say that software engineering was easier when I started. The goal with this article is to start a conversation on how we can make the software development life cycle easier on software engineering teams.

Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – Guest: Paul Michaels

Join me live on Saturday, May 14th at 10:00 PST on C# Corner Live for show #52 where my guest will be Paul Michaels, Head of Development at Music Magpie & Microsoft MVP.  

Using Async/Await with Disposable Objects

This article will show by example how to dispose of disposable objects when using the async/ await pattern.

Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – Guest: Mika Dumont

Join me live on Saturday, April309th at 10:00 PST on C# Corner Live for show #54 where my guest will be Mika Dumont, Program Manager at Microsoft.

Speed Up Logging in .NET

The team at Microsoft has added another way to do logging that touts that it’s faster than using the old new way (ILogger). In this article, I will discuss the old way of logging and introduce the new LoggerMessage class.

Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – Guest: Steve Jones

Join me live on Saturday, April 9th at 10:00 PST on C# Corner Live for show #53 where my guest will be Steve Jones, Advocate for Redgate Software.  

Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – Guest: Byron Tardif

Join me live on Saturday, May 7th at 10:00 PST on C# Corner Live for show #55 where my guest will be Byron Tardif, Principal PM Manager - Azure App Platform.  

Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – Guest: Swizec Teller

Join me live on Saturday, March 26th at 10:00 PST on C# Corner Live for show #51 where my guest will be Swizec Teller, Software Engineer. 

Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – Guest: Khalid Abuhakmeh

Join me live on Saturday, April 2nd at 10:00 PST on C# Corner Live for show #52 where my guest will be Khalid Abuhakmeh, JetBrains Developer Advocate.