Code that accompanies this article can be downloaded here. Last month, at their Build event, Microsoft shared with us plans for .NET Core 3. Wile the accent was the transformation of desktop applications and support for Windows Forms and WPF,…
In the previous articles, we explored various aspects of asynchronous programming in .NET. We talked about the motivation behind this way of programming and about some general pitfalls and guidelines. Apart from that, we explored Task-Based Asynchronous Pattern. In that…
In the previous articles, we could see what the motivation behind asynchronous programming in .NET is, and we explored some of the most common pitfalls and guidelines when using this programming style. As we mentioned before, async/await mechanism was first introduced…
In the previous article, we started analyzing asynchronous programming in .NET world. There we made concerns about how this concept is somewhat misunderstood even though it has been around for more than six years, ie. since .NET 4.5. Using this…
It has been a long time since .NET version 4.5 was released. To refresh our memory, that happened on August 15th, 2012. Yes, six years ago. Feel old yet? Well, it was not my intention to bum you out but to…
There are many blog posts and misconceptions about Repository Pattern, especially since the introduction of the OR/M libraries, like Entity Framework. In this article, we will investigate why this pattern is still useful, what are the benefits of using it…
In the previous article, we covered some topics that are important for understanding Dependency Injection. We considered that Dependency Injection is not just one principle, but an orchestration of many good practices, like Single Responsibility Principle and Dependency Inversion Principle. Apart from that,…
I remember the first time I got on stage with one of my bands. All the rehearsals and practices came down to one moment when we all needed to work together as one. Sounds from our instruments should merge into one, and…
Code that accompanies this article can be downloaded here. Sometime in the last few weeks, while I was writing the explanations for the way in which neural networks learn and backpropagation algorithm, I realized how I never tried to implement these algorithms in one of…
C# 8 is not scheduled anytime soon. After all, there is already work ongoing towards C# 7.2 and it looks like there are also plans for a C# 7.3. So, this revision is far down the road. Still, we can take a peek at some of the new shiny things that it will bring.
