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Perhaps the most exciting feature in C# 8.0 was IAsyncEnumerable. At work, we have been dealing with a LOT of async calls. Prior we were having to block the thread just to get the data, and process it accordingly. [Read More]

Working with any form of a secret in development such as usernames, connection strings, passwords, etc is always difficult. Simply finding a convenient and efficient way of storing them without putting them in source control can be a daunting task. While there are many ways of handling this such as... [Read More]

For the past few days, I’ve been working with a fairly large dataset (2.87GB) that is in a collection of 66 different tabular delimited files.   This in and of itself isn’t bad, but the problem is that I was wanting to be able to easily place it into various formats... [Read More]

Let’s start off by saying that if you’re not writing Unit Tests….you should.  Unit testing is everywhere these days, from Bootcamps, to tutorials, to books.  There is a good reason behind this too.  Unit tests help developers create a fully functional, bug-free applications.  Giving near instant feedback on whether you... [Read More]

.NET languages have a variety of forms of flow control, if statements are easily among the most noticeable. When having to compare multiple statements it is common practice to utilize switch statements due to it’s improved performance, but is there another way? It turns out there is!  We can actually... [Read More]