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C# 12: Aliasing Any Type.  Hide Those Tuples
C# 12: Aliasing Any Type. Hide Those Tuples

Certainly! Here’s the updated version of the blog post with the “Before” code example revised to better demonstrate the use of a Tuple in the old way: Exploring C# 12: Embracing Type Aliases for Cleaner Code As a dedicated C# developer, I’m thrilled to delve into one of the most exciting features coming with C#... » read more

Generating Url Friendly Unique Keys that aren’t GUIDs
Generating Url Friendly Unique Keys that aren’t GUIDs

Converting GUID’s to Base36 and back again GUID’s, or Globally Unique Identifiers, are a common sight in URLs, used for identification or referencing specific resources. However, their traditional 32-character hexadecimal format is not the most pleasing to the eye in a URL. Optimally, a GUID should be converted to a Base-36 string that contains simple... » read more

Using AI to Generate a File Cache in C#
Using AI to Generate a File Cache in C#

Like most, I’ve been playing around with the awesome capabilities of AI for developers. Recently we had to develop a small class library that would act as a specialized cache. Since I had a little extra bandwidth, I decided to have a little fun and see if I could get an AI engine to write... » read more

Deploying abp.io to an Azure AppService
Deploying abp.io to an Azure AppService

It’s been forever since I have posted a developer blog, to the point that I almost considered this site dead. However, once in a while you hit a problem that you spend just enough time on you feel compelled to help your community. I am an absolute fanboy of everything VoloSoft does, their frameworks for... » read more

It’s better to .Take()
It’s better to .Take()

Given a EFCore entity object that has a navigation property, and the schema is built for a one-to-many relationship, but you want a navigation property to represent a single record based on a specific filter.