Writing LINQ that produces optimal SQL can be even harder as developers often don’t have visibility into the process. It becomes even more confusing when the application is designed to […]
It was going to happen sooner or later – our research on C# dynamic features eventually ended up with an attepmt to parse bits of source code. There are quite […]
Every now and then Stack Overflow provides fantastic opportunities to learn something new. One user asked whether SQL Server’s DECRYPTBYPASSPHRASE can be implemented with Entity Framework Core 2.2 so they […]
Yet another Stack Overflow question has sparked a heated discussion and got us thinking whether we can do better. In a nutshell, the question was about finding a way to […]
We all need to do weird things sometimes. One assignment we’ve got was to implement an API that would totally obfuscate all parameters in a Base64 encoded string. This will […]
Swagger is extremely useful when developing and debugging Web APIs. Some dev environments however got a bit of security added on top which can get a bit too painful to […]
Sometimes unit tests just don’t cut it. This is where integration tests come in. This however brings a whole new set of issues with finding the beast way to isolate […]
We love unit testing! Seriously, it makes sense if you consider how many times a simple test had saved us from having to revisit that long forgotten project we’ve already […]
As part of our technical debt collection commitment we do deal with weird situations where simply running a solution in Visual Studio might not be enough. A recent example to […]
Static classes and methods are a pain to unit test Back in days of WebForms, HttpContext was the one object to rule them all. It’s got session state, request and […]
