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NuGet CPM when using Git submodules
I've written about NuGet Central Package Management in the past, but since then there were some news in this field. Most importantly, the .NET Upgrade Assistant Visual Studio extension and command line...
View ArticleParallel builds for .NET projects
I had the pleasure of troubleshooting an issue that occurred on our build server after we tried to improve performance by parallelizing the build. We need to build the same project in several...
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Date HTTP header formatting
As we were implementing date formatting for the Date HTTP header in .NET, a Java developer warned us to double-check if we really want to use the built-in RFC 1123 format specifier for that. It turned...
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Logging from .NET to Elasticsearch
Although you might have not heard often of Elasticsearch being used for collecting logs from a .NET application, the scenario is well-supported. The setup is simple and it works good. There is an...
View ArticleDon't return IEnumerable from action methods
I already wrote about the potential dangers of using the IEnumerable interface in the past. But I recently encountered a bug related to it which I found worth sharing. It caused the exception filter in...
View ArticleRequired properties and nullable reference types
When you enable nullable reference types for an existing Web API project, it changes how properties in request bodies are validated. This can easily break your application if you don't modify your...
View ArticleValue types in web API models
If you use non-nullable value types (e.g., enums) in web API models, you probably aren't getting the behavior you are expecting, both for required and for optional properties. I find it better to...
View ArticleAddressing the CA1515 warning in .NET 9
In one of my hobby projects, I have all the code analysis rules enabled and treat all warnings as errors. As I tried to build it with .NET SDK 9 for the first time, it failed with many CA1515 errors:...
View ArticleMemoization for a recursive function in F#
This year I decided to solve the Advent of Code puzzles using F#, the functional programming language for .NET. Since I had very little previous experience with F#, this meant a lot of learning about...
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Terminal profiles in IDEs
I spend a significant part of my work day in a terminal. That's why I have it configured to suit my needs with a collection of several useful modules which I occasionally still extend. Although all...
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OpenTelemetry collection during development
OpenTelemetry is a standard for collecting all types of observability data: logging, tracing and metrics. There is an increasing number of tools that can collect OpenTelemetry data emitted from...
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VS HTTP files break OpenTelemetry tracing
As I was preparing a sample ASP.NET Core Web API project to test the Grafana OpenTelemetry Docker image with, tracing for some reason didn't work for me. It took me a while to realize that the problem...
View ArticleProcessing Git changes in GitHub Actions
I decided to automate posting announcements to social media platforms when I publish a new blog post. Since I'm already using GitHub Actions to publish blog posts on schedule as well as deploy any...
View ArticleImplementing a private JavaScript GitHub action
In my quest to automate announcing of new blog posts to social media using GitHub Actions I managed to find existing actions for most steps in the process. However, the act of composing the final...
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Posting to social media from GitHub Actions
The final step in my efforts to automatically announce new blog posts to social media from GitHub Actions was the actual act of posting the prepared message to selected social media platforms. After a...
View ArticleAPI-compatible data type change
A recent business requirement demanded an unexpected change to a web API endpoint. A numeric field in the request body had to accept a set of predefined string values in addition to numeric values. I...
View ArticleHTTP client rate limiting with Polly
One usually thinks of rate limiting in a server-side context, i.e., a service limits the rate of incoming requests. Well, we recently had to add client-side rate limiting to our service, i.e., limit...
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Web API file upload with metadata
In my experience, file upload is not a very common operation in REST APIs. But when you are dealing with files, JSON requests aren't the best approach. Unless your files are text only or very small,...
View ArticleTraefik reverse proxy for Docker
When I needed a reverse proxy to publicly expose a couple of web applications running in Docker, I decided to use Traefik after doing a short research. Now that I successfully configured it, I don't...
View ArticleHTTP resilience wrapper for Polly
In response to my blog post about client rate limiting with Polly, a colleague brought Microsoft's HTTP resilience NuGet package to my attention. When I took a closer look at it, I was surprised that...
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