c sharp Archives

My Typescript to C# Cheatsheet

To facilitate learning C#, I created a Typescript to C# cheatsheet to help map commonly-used TypeScript concepts to their C# counterparts.

C & C++

Align Optionality in Your C# API with OpenAPI 3.1 Specifications

If you're using C# for your API and OpenAPI 3.1 for your specification, there are several techniques you can employ to ensure they match up.

Navigating the Dotnet Landscape: Learning C# After Years of Typescript

While I've primarily worked on TypeScript applications during my time at Atomic, a recent project had me delving into the dotnet ecosystem.

.NET / WPF

How to Call an Async Method Synchronously in C#

It would be awesome if async/await reduced code complexity instead of just hiding it. But when complexity is unavoidable, we have to make it manageable.

Development Practices

An Immutable Asynchronous State Holder in C#

In several projects that I have worked on over the last few years, we instituted a StateHolder class that eases the burden of managing state.

Developer Tools

I Hate #regions

"I hate regions" not only automatically expands the regions when you open the file, it changes the font size and color of the regions.

.NET / WPF

Ninject Tips: Some Binding Magic & Kernel Cleanup

How to make Ninject automatically bind certain types of classes, and how to make it fully reset the Kernel between tests.

.NET / WPF

Testing C#.Net Async Code

Conventional wisdom around the Internet seems to be that writing async tests is hard enough that it's okay to avoid it. I disagree.

.NET / WPF

IEnumerable, for a More Elegant C#

IEnumerable provides several benefits to C#, including improved readability, more elegant solutions, and code composability.

.NET / WPF

You Can Write Inline C# in XAML – But Should You?

You can write inline C# in your XAML file with the x:Code Intrinsic type. But it might not be such a great idea.

.NET / WPF

Caching Data Transforms on IObservables

Describes a method of using IObservables which allows for efficient re-use of complicated transforms.

.NET / WPF

Generic Memoization in C#

Dynamic languages have good generic forms of memoization, but I haven't found one I'm happy with in C#. This is a sketch of a generic memoization in C#.