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This post showcases the use of the TimeProvider abstraction in C#, focusing on its two implementations: TimeProvider.System, a replacement for DateTime.UtcNow, and FakeTimeProvider, which allows precise date and time control in unit tests. The project used as a practice ground is the Recurring Tasks Manager, first introduced in
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This post showcases how to take a project from the Pluralsight EF Core 8 Fundamentals GitHub repo and make a few tweaks to it. This post serves as a reminder to oneself of completing the EF Core 8 Fundamentals course this week. Adapt The first step is to choose a
Calculator
This post demonstrates a way of instantiating abstract class subclasses via reflection in C#. As an example, it uses the Calculator project, which implements arithmetic expressions, including their construction, evaluation, and conversion to and from JSON and XML. Here are a few related posts that cover various other aspects of
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This post outlines the implementation of a recurring tasks manager using C# and AvaloniaUI. The core idea involves recurring tasks, which are meant to be completed repeatedly over an indefinite period. The intervals between consecutive completions are intended to be roughly consistent, though there is no urgency nor deadlines: a
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This post gives an overview of .NET templates, which are starter structures for solutions, projects, or individual files. As an example, the default .NET template for a new solution includes only the solution file. It can be customised to include additional items, such as a .gitignore file and a README.
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This post examines how to import data into Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB while staying within the free throughput limit of 1000 Request Units per second. It also showcases the use of Bicep templates, as well as the Bogus and ShellProgressBar C# libraries. The source code is available on GitHub
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This blog post documents a process of taking the app built in the Simple ToDo-List tutorial and slightly modifying it. The codebase is here, the pull request with all changes described in this post is here Get Ready The project codebase lives in a GitHub repository, which requires a name.
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This post introduces Binary Indexed Trees (BITs), discusses their applications to LeetCode problems, and provides code samples in C#. Binary Background BITs rely on the binary (base 2) representation of numbers. Consider, for example, x = 22. It can be represented as a sum of powers of 2: x = 1*16
Calculator
This post explores XML serialisation in C# using the XmlSerializer class and different ways to represent arithmetic expressions in XML. The arithmetic expressions and the calculator project are introduced in this post. Another post covers the JSON serialisation of these expressions. This post builds on that foundation and focuses on
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This post outlines how to create, package, install, and later update a global .NET CLI tool. The example tool is called Guider. It generates GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifiers) and copies the generated GUID to the clipboard. The project is available on GitHub at https://github.com/yamesant/guider The tool
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This blog post showcases a process of Yamesant developing a small Products Search project. The project exposes a single API endpoint to find products in a MongoDB collection. The collection is small (on the order of thousands of documents) and read-only. There is no simpler starting point. The search request
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This blog post documents Yamesant's first experience with a NoCode tool: Xano. It presents a perspective of someone who has a technical background but has never used a NoCode tool before. NoCode NoCode is an approach to developing software through a visual interface instead of using a programming