There was an incredible feature introduced in .NET 5 and now it’s even improved - source generators. Let’s have a quick glance on how we can harness its potential.
By Mirek on (tags: .net, Source Generators, categories: None)If you develop a Windows Presentation Foundation (or UWP or MAUI) application with MvvM pattern and don’t use any framework for that like Prism, you better take a look at what .NET Community Toolkit has prepared for you.
By Mirek on (tags: Community Toolkit, mvvm, .net, WPF, categories: tools, code)There are many situations that developer needs to known what are the content or web roots paths. One of such situations is accessing custom JSON configuration files. In the classics ASP.NET applications you was always able to use Server.MapPath() method. With that method you was able to find physical path or web root directory. Later on in RC1 there was possibility to use IAppl…
By Dawid on (tags: core, .net, path, rc2, root, categories: code)In recently released .NET Core RC 2 there is possibility to use new dotnet tool. It exposes a set of commands , such us: creating empty projects restoring packages building your project unit testing .NET Core contains much more tooling but most of them are exposed thought dotnet tool. There is also no problem with extend set of commands. It has simple extensibility model – you …
By Dawid on (tags: core, dotnet, .net, rc2, categories: tools, code)In the previous post we saw how to use the built in Trace class for logging facilities. However the Trace class is not the latest Microsoft’s recommended way for logging your application. In this post I will try to present the quickest way of configuring TraceSource and use it for logging purposes.
By Mirek on (tags: c#, logging, .net, TraceSource, tracing, categories: code)Recently I was digging in Strong naming and signing in .net. I have found an interesting article on code project Building Security Awareness in .NET Assemblies which describe how the strong name can be easily removed and beaked from an executing assembly. I would like to present the approach that can be used with library assemblies in .net. What is a strong name (also called st…
By Mirek on (tags: Assembly signing, .net, Strong name, categories: code, security)