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There’s a lot of ways to make our code work for us. Let’s check out using the nameof operator to avoid magic strings.

Logs are a great tool for squashing bugs and tracing errors. Let’s see how to add NLog to our project.

Need to pull a subdirectory out of repo A and create a new repo B out with it? Including full history and branches? Okay, here’s how.

If you find yourself supporting a WinForms application, you’re likely to notice the tests… or lack thereof. Just because we may not have been so focused on automated tests and continuous integration when WinForms was younger, that doesn’t mean we can’t introduce them now. Better late than never!

Using the async/await pattern in WinForms is an easy win, helping prevent one of the most annoying user experiences - a frozen UI.

When you’re writing tests, you generally don’t want to write to the database, email customers, and hit third-party API’s. That’s why we need to know how to mock dependencies!

Does the idea of submitting to a code review make you sweat bullets? Or do you brush it off as a necessary evil? It should be a (hopefully positive) conversation, wherein the team agrees to the code they’re all going to have to help maintain, and maybe learns something new too.

All programming languages have gotchas to trip you up, and C# is no exception. Today, let’s check out the subtle (but significant) difference between “throw” and “throw ex”.

We’ve all seen word clouds, like in the sidebars of blogs, but let’s see how we might create our own with a little bit of code!

Windows sets certain locations aside for apps, and makes them easily discoverable for devs to use. Let’s see how.