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Async code isn’t always intuitive, but practicing helps. Let’s take a look at Async, CancellationToken, and IProgress, in a few short examples.

Testing .NET code involving time has always been a pain, but the TimeProvider class (backported to the .NET Framework) gives us awesome new tools.

Changed the default value for a report parameter, but it’s not actually updating in SSRS? That’s by design. Let’s find a way around it.

Testing timers in C# is difficult, but .NET 8 (C# 12) adds an abstract TimeProvider class that makes it easier. Let’s take a closer look.

Testing time in C# is difficult, but .NET 8 (C# 12) adds an abstract TimeProvider class that makes it easier. Let’s take a closer look.

After an unexpected debugging session, some thoughts on APIs, similar endpoints, swagger, and an ugly DevOps fail.

Funny how a little due diligence mixes so well with a healthy interest in avoiding unnecessary future work.

I heard a story recently, where a team was asked, after spending months adding a set of features to a codebase, to remove a specific feature from very early on in the project, right before the release date. Other features had been built around it and on top of it. Without necessarily even intending too, the devs that came after that code was written would’ve had to understand it in order to add to it. I don’t know what the outcome was, but that’s not an easy ask. ...

A look at if/else, switch/case, pattern matching, other options … and which is best. (spoiler: none ;) )

C# has been getting a lot of pattern matching love in recent years, like with list patterns in C# 11. The problem is knowing where and how to use it.