I think LINQ to SQL is good for projects targeted for SQL Server. ADO.NET Entity Framework is better if we are targeting different databases. Currently I think a lot of providers are available for ADO.NET Entity Framework, Provider for PostgreSQL, MySQL, esql, Oracle and many other (check http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/default.aspx). I don’t want to use standard ADO.NET … Read more
The main Git installer for Windows is msysgit (SO question). TortoiseGit is also a nice Windows integration (on top of msysgit). You need to be aware of Git limits, particularly in term of Git repository (do not try to stuff every projects into one repo, unless you are building a “system”, i.e. something which can … Read more
Generic Repository vs Non-generic Repository Generic repository is not a pattern. Generic repository is just a wrapper. It can be useful for some special scenarios as a base class for specific repositories but in most cases it is just over used and over hyped nonsense. Navigation properties Repository itself should be used with aggregate root. … Read more
If you’re trying to get a stack dump while the process is already running (a la jstack), there are two methods as described here: Using Managed Stack Explorer There is a little-known but effective tool called the Managed Stack Explorer. Although it features a basic GUI, it can effectively be a .NET equivalent of jstack … Read more
Shortly, you can’t do that (at least for SqlServer). The explanation is contained in EF Core documentation – Raw SQL Queries – Composing with LINQ: Composing with LINQ requires your raw SQL query to be composable since EF Core will treat the supplied SQL as a subquery. SQL queries that can be composed on begin … Read more
Keep it all in .NET. You can easily write a Windows Forms application to display a tray icon and display notifications as and when something happens in the web service (you’d probably need a timer to do the polling). There are plenty of articles around that will show you how to do this. Here’s one … Read more
Use TaskCompletionSource<T> to create a task for some asynchronous condition that does not already have an asynchronous API. Use CancellationToken.Register to hook the modern CancellationToken-based cancellation system into another cancellation system. Your solution just needs to combine these two. I have a CancellationToken.AsTask() extension method in my AsyncEx library, but you can write your own … Read more
dotnet pack – Produces a NuGet package of your code. That is the key difference – this will enable to publish to http://nuget.org, or to a nuget server that can be pulled down by other developers, or even for use with Octopus Deploy. dotnet publish – Produces a .NET framework-dependent or self-contained application. Keyword is … Read more
// Injecting HttpClient would be a better idea if possible HttpClient client = new(); string page = await client.GetStringAsync(“page URL here”);
There are a couple of potential possibilities, here. First, BlockingCollection<T> in the Reactive Extensions is a backport, and not exactly the same as the .NET 4 final version. I wouldn’t be surprised if the performance of this backport differs from .NET 4 RTM (though I haven’t profiled this collection, specifically). Much of the TPL performs … Read more