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Breaking down the Monolith: data flows
One common pattern we see repeatedly is how clients are transitioning their monolithic applications to distributed architectures. The challenge here is doing that while still retaining the data on the …
Approaches to handling simple expressions in C#
Every now and then we get asked if there’s an easy way to parse user input into filter conditions. Say, for example, we have a viewmodel of type DataThing: From …
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Cloud face-off: hosting static website
With the explosive growth of online services we’ve seen over 2020, it’s pretty clear the Public Cloud is going to pervade our lives more and more. The Internet is full …
LINQ: Dynamic Join
Suppose we’ve got two lists that we would like to join based on, say, common Id property. With LINQ the code would look something along these lines: resulting list of …
ASP.Net Core – Resolving types from dynamic assemblies
It is not a secret that ASP.NET core comes with dependency injection support out of the box. And we don’t remember ever feeling it lacks features. All we have to …
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Attaching debugger to dynamically loaded assembly with Reflection.Emit
Imagine a situation where you’d like to attach a debugger to an assembly that you have loaded dynamically? To make it a bit more plausible let us consider a scenario. …
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ARR: Setting up
Not so long ago a client asked us to spec up their CI/CD pipeline. They are going through devops transformation and as part of their “speed up delivery” objective they …
Parsing OData queries
OData (Open Data Protocol) is an ISO approved standard that defines a set of best practices for building and consuming RESTful APIs. It allows us write business logic and not worry too …
Entity Framework Core 3.1 – dynamic WHERE clause
Every now and then we get tasked with building a backend for filtering arbitrary queries. Usually clients would like to have a method of sending over an array of fields, …
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