.NET

Starting a Windows process using .NET is normally an easy thing.You call Process.Start() with a l...

Here’s a quick rundown on how to setup CORS in a NET Core API. It takes three pieces: CORS ...

Below are some references for different methods of accomplishing deep copies of object types. NO...

Here’s a good example for how to implement operator for equality (==, !=, .Equals()). This is ta...

You will come across a problem at some point, where you will use a class, that exists in two libr...

Here are notes about the Assembly Helper classes that are part of OGA.SharedKernel.Lib and OGA.Co...

Normally, each call to CLIWrap is performed inside an independent terminal session. So, there mu...

Here's a quick method that will generate a hash from a List of objects: public int GetHashCodeOf...

Quick method for check if two given lists of objects are equal: static public bool AreListsEqual...

As application complexity grows, you will eventually need a scalable way to serialize queries and...

Publishing and Running ASP.NET Core Applications with IIS - Rick Strahl's Web Log (west-wind.com)

Here are some use cases for a Func. Func as Method Callback If you want to have a lambda that y...

When writing unit tests, it’s good to standardize as much as possible.This includes the method si...

Here’s my current conventions for logging in application processes. Logging features, here are i...

To create a new project at the current folder: dotnet new console --framework net6.0 --use-progr...

Here’s a decent mechanism for returning useful errors from a WEB API. Aside: We have a standing ...

We have a standing REST API with various endpoints for simulating different method types, return ...

Six ways to initiate tasks on another thread in .NET

Async method cannot have Ref or an Out parameters. So, we cannot pass back data from them through...

You will eventually run into the need for a function to accept a restricted set of value for a pa...

During Startup.ConfigureServices During application startup, the Startup.ConfigureServices metho...

NOTE: Refer to this page for how to register and consume a background service: Consuming NET Core...

To properly consumes a background service from a controller or another service, it must be regist...

People make lots of references to Microsoft articles about how to properly handle Dispose in deri...

NOTE: If you are looking for how to access DI services, see this: HowTo Access DI Services Here ...

When you create unit tests for class types that directly use DI to retrieve dependencies, you wil...

Suppress Async Warning Project-Wide Since we have several calls to base classes for diagnostics ...

There are some cases where it is necessary to suppress IDE compiler warnings that apply to the en...

If the compiler is giving you warnings about nullable reference types, then you may need to enabl...

Since we have some libraries that still output to NET Framework targets, some workarounds are req...

Sometimes, a unit test needs to ensure a particular exception type occurs. Here’s how to check t...

Here’s a list of elements for unit testing in Visual Studio using MSTest. Documentation for Visu...

If you are using MSTest as your testing framework, and want to leverage the test functionality fr...

Here’s a list of .NET datatypes, and how best to store each one. .NET Datatype Post...

There are several aspects of an ASP Net Core web API that cannot be placed in a class library wit...

Sometimes, a a dotnet runtime closes without releasing a listening port. This will prevent it fr...

How to startup a net core application and specify the listening IP address and port: exename.exe...

When writing a method that accepts a cancellation token, the method will need to deal with a pass...

Exploring standardized boilerplate for a variety of process types. Here's a known list of proces...

Here are a couple methods for how to update form controls from a non-GUI thread. Explicit Setter...

When developing cross-platform libraries, you will have the need to enable and disable different ...

Here is a working method for using the In-Memory cache. For a thread-safe cache update, see the ...

Here are quick examples of how to create anonymous lambdas in C# method blocks. With Delegate ...

Taken from here: docs.microsoft.com-nuget/docs/quickstart/create-and-publish-a-package-using-the...

These are the steps needed to include release notes in a Nuget package. These are taken from thi...

Here’s a set of basic command line steps to run, to generate a nuget package for a library or an ...

Creating nuget packages that contain libraries for multiple frameworks or runtimes, requires some...

Here’s the golden reference for all things Nuget: docs.microsoft.com-nuget/docs at main · NuGet/...

Here are pages associated with signing .NET binaries (exe and dll) and installers: Code Signing ...

Current as of: 20250126 This list will be revised as more steps get automated. This is a workin...

Here are steps to install Visual Studio 2022 in an offline environment. It involved creating a l...

When running an API behind a reverse proxy, such as NGINX, the service will not, by default, see ...

If you have an API service that is called by multiple server blocks of an NGINX proxy, and the se...

The easiest means to mock a data context for testing, is to use an in-memory database. An in-mem...

References: NET Core DI Best Practices Here’s a list of behaviors of the NET Core DI registry: ...

References: Net Core DI Truths Internet’s Claim of Anti-Patterns Contrary to what the internet ...

It’s pretty standard for classes to require configuration in their constructors in the IOptions f...

NOTE: If you are looking for how to generate an instance of ServiceProvider, outside of NET Core ...

For a better desktop UI experience, it is necessary to have access to the current screen size and...

In order to easily stand up a Postgres database for unit and integration testing, we need a class...

When creating a provider-scoped data context (one for a specific backend), you need to decorate t...

Here's a list of what datatypes that Entity Framework uses to store .NET datatypes in a couple di...

Visual Studio brings in lots of files and folders that don't belong in a checked in repository. ...

If you want to create an entity type that happens to derive from another entity type, JUST TO sim...

When working in EF, you will come across the need to create a DbContext type. MS has a base clas...