When it comes to mapping inheritance hierarchies to database tables using an ORM, there are a lot of different options. Though it definitely has drawbacks, one of the most popular method is 'table-per-hierarhy' (TPH). TPH…
There are a couple of extensions available in the Visual Studio Marketplace to handle your Github gists — and not to belittle others, but I have to admit, I didn't like any of them. They are…
In my previos post, I discussed one of the new features of C# 8: non-nullable reference types. That feature has been out for a while, so I think most of what can be said has…
The launch of Visual Studio 2019 is upon us — and with the new IDE, we also get a new compiler for the newest version of our favorite programming language. There are already a lot of…
During one of my courses, I was talking about the new language features of C# 3 to introduce the students LInQ. I was discussing collection initializers and extensions methods, when I made an off-hand remark…