Category: Architecture

Rock Your Code: Code & App Performance for Microsoft .NET (4th Edition)

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"Rock Your Code: Code & App Performance for Microsoft .NET" is a comprehensive guide that emphasizes the importance of optimizing code performance for enhanced user experience and backend efficiency. With practical insights and example code, developers learn essential practices for maximizing the performance of their business applications within the Microsoft .NET framework. From string manipulation to leveraging source generators, this edition covers a wide range of topics, including new chapters on code analysis and benchmark testing. Written for developers using Microsoft .NET 8 and Visual Studio 2022, this book offers timeless principles applicable across different versions of .NET, ensuring relevance and utility in any environment.

Adobe Lightroom: Issues with Most Updates

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The article outlines the author's frustration with Adobe Lightroom Classic updates, citing issues like lost edits and export failures due to catalog format changes. They urge for better testing, maintenance of user setups, and swift bug resolution. Specific grievances include vanished settings, performance decline, and incompatibility with MacMini systems. The author emphasizes the need for Adobe to prioritize user experience to retain subscribers.

Modernizing Microsoft Office: A Call for Innovation in Word

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The author highlights numerous issues and shortcomings in Microsoft Word, particularly in handling large documents, citing problems ranging from formatting glitches, freezing during auto-save, and persistent errors with the Read Aloud feature. The article not only calls for urgent innovation and improvement in Microsoft Office to align with contemporary technological standards but also emphasizes the importance of user feedback as a crucial guide for necessary innovations.

Rock Your Code: Coding Standards for Microsoft .NET (8th Edition)

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The 8th edition of the book, Rock Your Code: Coding Standards for Microsoft .NET, is available on Amazon. It consolidates Microsoft .NET coding standards and provides supplementary directives. Drawing insights from Microsoft’s code inspection tools, the book covers topics such as project setup, naming standards, class design, coding style, and more. The book's purpose is to facilitate superior code quality and swift integration of new team members. It's designed for use with Visual Studio 2022, C#, and .NET 8.

Rockin’ the Code World Season 4: Special Guest Mads Torgersen

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Join the 4th season premiere of C# Corner TV with host, David McCarter, on October 7th, 2023, at 10:00 PST. The special guest is Mads Torgersen, Principal Architect on the Microsoft .NET team and lead designer of the C# language. The episode will feature a discussion about .NET 8, a Q&A, and links for further resources.