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The State of C# - What Have I Missed - Filip Ekberg

One of the most popular programming language on the market is getting even better. With every iteration of C# we get more and more features that are meant to make our lives as developers a lot easier. Support for writing (hopefully) better and more readable asynchronous code, being able to do patter

C# 8 - Jon Skeet and Mads Torgersen

Just in case the stream of C# 7 point releases hasn't given you enough to think about, let's have a look at what might be in C# 8.Nullable reference types? Shapes? Extension everything? One thing's for sure: this talk won't be pinned down until it's being delivered...

Introduction to Software Architecture

This lecture, recorded at the University of Colorado Boulder in September 2012, is an introduction to the major concepts of software architecture. The audience consisted of 70 seniors majoring in computer science. It is based on material taken from the book Just Enough Software Architecture.Most d

The Argument for WCF Hosting in .NET Core

Key Takeaways This article attempts to answer the question "Should Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Hosting be Supported in .

Mod and Remainder are not the Same

Get ready, here comes some fringe pedantry that could very well be the difference in an interview, or the thing that saves you from hours of chasing a production bug!

Task, Async Await, ValueTask, IValueTaskSource and how to keep your sanity in modern .NET world

C# and .NET went through a lot of changes in recent years. First, came Task Parallel Library. Later, async-await made everyone adding Async suffix to their methods and putting a lot of awaits.

Cost of a Join

How expensive is a join?

[EN] How does Two-Factor Authentication - 2FA work?

We often hear that if a website supports two-factor authentication, it is worth to enable it for our account. That’s what security people use to say. But how does it work? Why does it increase the security of our account so much? Today's episode is all about it.I will outline how the "Time-based O

Never RESTing – RESTful API Best Practices using ASP.NET Web API - Spencer Schneidenbach

Designing and building RESTful APIs isn’t easy. On its surface, it may seem simple – after all, developers are only marshaling JSON back and forth over HTTP, right? Believe it or not, that’s only a small part of the equation. There are many things to keep in mind while building the systems tha

Designing Wonderful .NET APIs - James Newton-King

There are .NET libraries that are complex to setup, hard to understand, difficult to debug, and impossible to extend. And then there are .NET libraries for the same task that wonderfully just work. Why do some libraries succeed where others fail?In this session we will discuss what makes a well desi

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