6 lesser-known features of C# / .NET that you should be using
Introduction This post is going to setup 6 features of the .NET Framework which I feel are under-utilised by a
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Unit testing – Making existing code testable
Introduction Unit testing (and integration testing) is something every developer knows they should do, but quite often it can fall
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7 dangerous mistakes in C#/.NET that are easy to make
C# is a great language, and the .NET Framework is pretty damn good too. C#’s strong typing reduces the amount
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Demystifying Async/Await
Introduction Back in 2012, Microsoft released C# 5 with a handful of new features, one being ‘async/await’. At the company
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Multithreading made easy – Parallel ForEach
Introduction This week, I was presented with an interesting problem. I had a WPF application which allowed users to scan
Continue readingValidating string lengths in LINQ to SQL, or how to fix ‘String or binary data would be truncated’
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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Dealing with exceptions
Exceptions can be the bane of a new programmers life. I’m sure any ASP.NET web developer is familiar with the
Continue readingSplitting up a collection into batches using LINQ
Quite often I’ve found the need to split up a large list of data into multiple batches. Usually, I’d just
Continue readingGrouping sequential blocks of data using LINQ – GroupWhile
A few days ago, I was required to group sequential blocks of data into separate ‘chunks’. Imagine the below sequence
Continue readingHow to fix ‘Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object’ – LINQ to SQL
Problem You’re updating a database record using LINQ to SQL, and upon calling ‘SubmitChanges’ you find that you’re getting the
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