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Farewell C#, Welcome R

The last three toy projects showcased on this blog are Arithmetic Trainer, Achievement Quantifier, and Noter. Besides being written in C#, the commonality between all three is involvement of randomness. Arithmetic Trainer generates random practice questions. Achievement Quantifier uses AutoFixture to generate random data for unit testing. Noter uses Bogus

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Getting started with ADO.NET - Insert and Query against SQLite Database

This post is a short demo of using ADO.NET to insert and query data against a SQLite database. The source code is available on GitHub here. Context The example data are achievements - anything that can be quantified and occurs on a certain date: public sealed class Achievement { public

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Building a Calendar Explorer App with SwiftUI

Calendar Explorer - an app for viewing different time periods - such as days, weeks, quarters, and times of day - and navigating between them using intuitive swipe gestures and a time scale picker. In other words, it imitates the functionality of a typical calendar app. This post details the

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Deploy a .NET Desktop App on macOS

Developing an application and running it from an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is one thing; distributing it to users is a whole other level of complexity. This post approaches this complexity by exploring one specific case, divided into manageable steps. The starting point is a "Hello World"-like

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Adapting and Extending an EF Core 8 Project - Publisher App Example

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

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Overview of .NET templates

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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Under 1000 RU per second dummy data importer into Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

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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First Steps with AvaloniaUI - Customising a To-Do List Project

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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Building a Products Search API with Custom Filters Using C# and MongoDB

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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From Concept to Code - Building a Pomo Assistant API

This blog post walks through setting up a .NET 8 minimal API project, using pomos as an example target resource. "Pomos" here refer to blocks of time structured according to the Pomodoro time management technique. The Pomo Assistant project is available on GitHub here, and the list of

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From Scratch to Delightful - Building a Static Website with HTML and Azure

This post outlines the process of building a static website using HTML. It demonstrates basic HTML features and the static website hosting option on Azure storage, including HTTPS and custom domain name configuration. The project is inspired by this Odin assignment which is the first among many on The Odin