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Extracting query performance statistics from a SQL Server database

Monitoring query performance is an essential aspect of proper database management. Poorly performing queries can produce a domino effect, affecting the overall health of your database server and severely degrading application user experience. Queries that result in many reads and writes to the hard disk and that use excessive amounts of CPU time and memory…

Exploring ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs: Should I use them in production?

InAPIs

If you’ve been keeping up to date with what’s new in the .NET ecosystem over the last year or two, you’ll probably already be aware of the Minimal APIs feature that debuted in ASP.NET 6.0 back in 2021. However, since Minimal APIs are still a relatively new concept, perhaps you haven’t considered using them in…

Substituting Moq for NSubstitute

InProgramming

In light of the recent controversy surrounding the .NET Moq library, many developers are reconsidering their choice of mocking framework for unit testing. The undisclosed inclusion of the proprietary SponsorLink DLL that reportedly extracts internal developer email addresses and uploads them to a remote server has undoubtedly been alarming to many. Beyond the immediate privacy…

Why you can’t debug your Blazor WebAssembly application

InWeb

You’ve had enough. Yes, you’ve finally decided that this is the last time you’ll use a Console.WriteLine method call to troubleshoot one of your Blazor WebAssembly components because you can’t get any debug breakpoints to hit! Debugging is an essential part of software development and when it doesn’t work, it can be frustrating. This is…

Taming Nullable Reference Types in C#

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The term Nullable Reference Types refers to a set of features introduced in C# 8.0 that help us to write cleaner, more robust code that is resistant to unintended null dereferencing. The features that are provided make us aware of possible null reference exceptions that could occur in our applications, reducing the likelihood of encountering…

What to do when emojis are not rendered correctly by ASP.NET Core web applications

InWeb

For better or worse emojis have become part of our everyday life, we use them to communicate our emotions and as a quick way to acknowledge our approval or disapproval as the case may be! 👍 Recently I came across what seemed to be a rather odd issue where an emoji was being used within…

Understanding the Blazor component lifecycle

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As a Blazor developer, it is essential to have a solid understanding of the lifecycle events that take place from the moment a Blazor component is created until it is eventually torn down. By gaining an understanding of the Blazor component lifecycle, you will be able to make your components more efficient and reduce the…

Implementing Blazor error boundaries

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If you’ve been working with Blazor for any length of time, it probably won’t be very long before you encounter the “yellow bar of death” which is displayed at the bottom of the browser window any time an unhandled exception occurs. Whenever this exception bar appears for Blazor Server apps, a page refresh is required…

Blazor data binding fundamentals

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Data binding is a core feature of practically all front-end SPA (Single-page application) frameworks, including Blazor. Blazor provides lots of useful data-binding features that are enabled by using specific Razor syntax within components. In this article, I will cover the fundamental concepts of data binding with Blazor. After reading the article, you will understand the…

Creating your first Blazor component

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Components are the fundamental building blocks used to develop interactive web applications with Blazor. At their most basic level, they are reusable UI (User Interface) segments that can be composed together to create complex layouts, usually containing code that enables dynamic behaviour. Blazor components (also known as Razor components) are one of the first things…

Author: Jonathan Crozier

Extracting query performance statistics from a SQL Server database

Exploring ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs: Should I use them in production?

Substituting Moq for NSubstitute

Why you can’t debug your Blazor WebAssembly application

Taming Nullable Reference Types in C#

What to do when emojis are not rendered correctly by ASP.NET Core web applications

Understanding the Blazor component lifecycle

Implementing Blazor error boundaries

Blazor data binding fundamentals

Creating your first Blazor component

How to print SQL Server messages to the output immediately

Introduction to the SQL Server MERGE statement

Operating on data via a SQL Server Stored Procedure efficiently with Table-Valued Parameters using C#