6 lesser-known features of C# / .NET that you should be using

Posted on October 7, 2019October 7, 2019 by Chris

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Introduction This post is going to setup 6 features of the .NET Framework which I feel are under-utilised by a

Unit testing – Making existing code testable

Posted on September 27, 2019September 28, 2019 by Chris

Introduction Unit testing (and integration testing) is something every developer knows they should do, but quite often it can fall

7 dangerous mistakes in C#/.NET that are easy to make

Posted on September 24, 2019September 25, 2019 by Chris

C# is a great language, and the .NET Framework is pretty damn good too. C#’s strong typing reduces the amount

Demystifying Async/Await

Posted on March 13, 2019March 13, 2019 by Chris

Introduction Back in 2012, Microsoft released C# 5 with a handful of new features, one being ‘async/await’. At the company

Multithreading made easy – Parallel ForEach

Posted on February 14, 2019February 14, 2019 by Chris

Introduction This week, I was presented with an interesting problem. I had a WPF application which allowed users to scan

Dealing with issues reported by users

Posted on September 9, 2018September 9, 2018 by Chris

If you’re a student learning C#, this isn’t going to be very relevant to you. If you’ve landed a job

Collection of small but useful extensions methods #1

Posted on August 24, 2018August 24, 2018 by Chris

I’ve done a few posts on some useful extension methods before, but there’s also a bunch of smaller extension methods

It’s a feature #1: The sad trombone

Posted on August 12, 2018August 12, 2018 by Chris

Back 5 years ago, our company had just secured a bespoke software deal that would see us develop a WPF

How I stopped hating programming and learnt to love it

Posted on August 6, 2018August 6, 2018 by Chris

So as an aside from my usual C#/.NET posts, I thought I’d write up about what got passionate about programming

Validating string lengths in LINQ to SQL, or how to fix ‘String or binary data would be truncated’

Posted on August 5, 2018August 9, 2018 by Chris

Problem While this error isn’t strictly a C# (the error is actually generated by SQL Server), it’s quite likely that

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