The C# programming language has provided support for thread synchronization using the lock keyword since its earliest versions. By using a lock statement, you ensure that only one thread can execute the body of the statement at a time. Any other thread is blocked until the lock is released. Now C# has an even better,…
Optimizing the performance of your .NET applications requires efficient resource management. Memory allocations and deallocations must be performed optimally in performance-critical applications. One of the best strategies to perform resource management in an optimal way in an application is by allocating and deallocating string objects judiciously. C# provides the string.Split() method to split strings in…
Microsoft has released .NET Community Toolkit 8.4, with support for partial properties in MVVM Toolkit source generators as well as new MVVM Toolkit diagnostic analyzers. The update was unveiled December 12. Source code for the .NET Community Toolkit can be found on GitHub. Partial properties now are available thanks to new C# language features in…
Language-Integrated Query, or LINQ for short, brings a query execution pipeline directly into C# and the managed environments of .NET Framework and .NET Core. LINQ provides several ways to execute queries and handle complex data manipulation tasks. Chunking is one feature of LINQ that simplifies the way you manage collections. In this article, we’ll examine…
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) decomposes an application’s source code into distinct aspects that isolate the core business logic from cross-cutting concerns. With AOP, cross-cutting concerns like logging and authentication become “aspects” that you program in one place and then apply in all of the places they’re needed. Thus AOP enhances modularity, makes your code more readable…
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a programming style that allows you to more easily manage the cross-cutting concerns in your application, meaning those concerns such as authentication or logging that cut across many parts of the app. In essence, AOP is a programming paradigm that enables you to avoid duplicating code and to keep your application…
The upcoming release of .NET 9 introduces the Task.WhenEach method, which enables developers to handle asynchronous tasks more elegantly. The Task.WhenEach method allows us to iterate through tasks as they complete, without having to call Task.WaitAny repeatedly in order to select the next task that completes. Task.WhenEach will be beneficial particularly in scenarios where you…
In the C# programming language, extension methods enable you to extend the functionality of existing types without modifying them or deriving new types from them using inheritance. You don’t need to create subclasses of existing classes or recompile or modify your existing classes to use extension methods. Extension methods improve the readability of your code…
Caching has long been one of the most successful and proven strategies for enhancing application performance and scalability. There are several caching mechanisms in .NET Core including in-memory caching (IMemoryCache API), distributed caching (IDistributedCache API), and the new hybrid caching (HybridCache API), which will be a part of .NET 9 to be released in November…
Exception handling is the technique of handling runtime errors in your application code. Basically, you have two categories of exceptions: Exceptions that are generated by the application and exceptions that are generated by the runtime. Exceptions should be handled with care. You should have a good idea of how exceptions should be handled and when…
