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Tag: C#

  • Override appSettings during development

    It is a fairly common scenario that during development the local machine configuration settings for different developers in are not same and it may not match with the default value in source control. One such example can be SQL server connection string. Some developers may have SQL Express installed, others may have a named instance…

  • Lesser Known C# Features – Part 4

    This is Part 4 and most likely the last part of my series, lesser-known features of C#. The previous parts of this series are available here: Lesser known C# features – Part 1 Lesser known C# features – Part 2 Lesser known C# features – Part 3

  • Lesser known C# features – Part 3

    This is Part 3 of my series, lesser-known features of C#. The previous parts of this series are available here: Lesser known C# features – Part 1 Lesser known C# – feature – Part 2

  • Lesser known C# features – Part 2

    This is Part 2 of the series, lesser-known features of C# language. I would suggest you to go through Part 1 if you have not already.

  • Lesser known C# features – Part 1

    Language C#  has become very powerful and mature over the years. As with any other language, C# also has few features which are used lesser than others. These are useful but often forgotten features. Through a series of blog post, I want to talk to about these lesser known/used features of C#. This is Part 1 of the series.

  • Tools and tricks that can help you code better and faster

    Tools and tricks you can use along with Visual Studio to make your life easy as a developer:

  • Microsoft Bot Framework – Part 2: Publish Bot Service to Azure

    This blog post is Part 2 of how to create a chat bot with Microsoft Bot Framework which can answer FAQs on your website. This is in continuation to my previous post where I explained how to create a QnA service using Microsoft QnA service maker. You can read Part 1 of my post here.…

  • Visual Studio 2017 – The best IDE ever

    Visual Studio 2017 was launched with much fan fare yesterday (March 7, 2017). I started exploring Visual Studio 2017 from RC and I must say, after using VS 2017 I felt I was earlier leaving in stone age. It is so much better. In short the Visual Studio 2017 is equivalent to following: VS 2017…

  • async await best practices

    aysnc await is probably one of the most important features of C#. It has made the life of developers easy. It helps developers to write clean code without any callbacks which are messy and difficult to understand.

  • Clean Visual Studio Solution

    Today, every project we work on big or small, easy or complex, small team or large team  is probably on Source Control. The source control of course can be git, VSTS, SVN etc. Still, there are times where you need to share your code as zip in an email, or shared link. It could be because…