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…
Exception handling has been used in programming languages for decades to handle run-time errors in applications. However, throwing exceptions is costly in terms of performance, so we should avoid them in our code. This article discusses a few strategies we can use to avoid exceptions in C#. To use the code examples provided in this…
Microsoft has released a seventh preview of its forthcoming .NET 9 software development platform, with enhancements to C# for API authors. The .NET runtime, SDK, and other areas also are improved. Accessible from dotnet.microsoft.com, .NET 9 Preview 7 was unveiled August 15. .NET 9 is expected to be introduced as a production release in November,…
To preserve the integrity, consistency, and security of application data, you should ensure that your application receives the correct data in a proper format. A popular open-source library in the C# ecosystem handles this perfectly and easily—FluentValidation. FluentValidation is a validation library for .NET that provides a fluent interface to build strongly typed validation rules…
FastEndpoints is a free and open-source REST API development framework for .NET Core that can be used to build lightweight and fast APIs. In this article, we’ll examine this library and learn how to use it to build lightweight APIs in ASP.NET Core applications. ASP.NET Core supports two built-in approaches to building APIs, traditional controllers…
