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Today's Articles
| Mastering Health Checks in .NET Core 8: A Complete Guide with Real-World Examples | | https://medium.com/@ashokreddy343/mastering-health-checks-in-net-core-8-a-complete-guide-with-real-world-examples-e52b47dea317 Introduction | |  | | |
| An Efficient Way To Process Large Files | | https://learn-code-learn.medium.com/an-efficient-way-to-process-large-files-d64144712c97 While handling large data set that would take a long time to load and consumes lot of memory. Instead of loading large data set in memory… Continue reading on Nerd For Tech » | |  | | |
| 15 C# Shorthand Techniques Every Developer Should Know to Boost Productivity | | https://medium.com/@ashokreddy343/15-c-shorthand-techniques-every-developer-should-know-to-boost-productivity-09543a724d48 Introduction | |  | | |
| Chain of Responsibility Design Pattern in .NET | | https://medium.com/teknopost/chain-of-responsibility-design-pattern-in-net-f7aed0b1d2ca When many checks or steps need to be done in sequence to get something done, this is often the first thing that comes to mind: Continue reading on TeknoPost » | |  | | |
| The Ultimate 18-Week Roadmap to Becoming a Senior Backend Engineer (C# Edition) | | https://medium.com/@shadeed.1990/the-ultimate-18-week-roadmap-to-becoming-a-senior-backend-engineer-c-edition-0e0c9f76822a Are you a mid-level C# developer ready to level up to a Senior Backend Engineer? This 18-week roadmap is your realistic, project-driven… | |  | | |
| MediatR Alternative — Wolverine | | https://thecodeman.net/posts/mediatr-alternative-wolverine MediatR will soon require a commercial license for some usage. | |  | | |
| Middleware in ASP.NET Core | | https://medium.com/we-are-developers/middleware-in-asp-net-core-c94d82dc3ef6 Visualizing the Request-Response Journey Continue reading on .NET|C# Hub » | |  | | |
| nameof in C#: The Tiny Keyword That Solves Big Problems | | https://medium.com/@nagarajvela/nameof-in-c-the-tiny-keyword-that-solves-big-problems-28b767343f25 Explore clever ways to use C#’s nameof for UI, serialization, and debugging. Continue reading on Level Up Coding » | |  | | |
| The true power of the Decorator Pattern | How to build a lightweight service in ASP.NET Core | | https://medium.com/@denmaklucky/the-true-power-of-the-decorator-pattern-how-to-build-a-lightweight-service-in-asp-net-core-0737478a804b Let’s say you have a UsersService that works with a User entity. The entity is just a class with an identifier and a string property — in… | |  | | |
| DevNetNoord Talks | | https://blog.wildermuth.com/2025/04/13/devnetnoord-talks/ In this talk, I show how Nullable Reference Types work and why I think it’s important for many projects to switch over to them. You can see my code and slides here if you missed it: | |  | | |
| C# Output: How to Talk to the Console (Properly) | | https://medium.com/@fulton_shaun/c-output-how-to-talk-to-the-console-properly-82d9e10e7b89 Understanding console output is step one to debugging, user feedback, and interactive programs. | |  | | |
| Building a Stock Market API with FastAPI and Python | | https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/building-a-stock-market-api-with-fastapi-and-python/ In this tutorial, we'll walk through the process of creating a backend API for a stock market application using Python and the FastAPI framework. | |  | | |
| Async vs Sync | | https://medium.com/write-a-catalyst/async-vs-sync-034b8d4f266a Transforming C# Development Forever Continue reading on Write A Catalyst » | |  | | |
| AI isn’t Ready to Directly Replace Programmers (April 2025) | | https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/ai-isnt-ready-to-directly-replace-programmers-april-2025/ AI tools are evolving fast, but in April 2025, experts agree that AI still isn't ready to fully replace programmers. While models like GPT-4.1 can assist with coding, they lack the deep problem-solvin... | | | | |
| .NET 10 Preview 3 is now available! | | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-10-preview-3/ Find out about the new features in .NET 10 Preview 3 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, C#, .NET MAUI, and more! The post .NET 10 Preview 3 is now available! appeared firs... | |  | | |
| C# Singleton Pattern: One Instance to Rule Them All | | https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/c-sharp-singleton-pattern-one-instance-to-rule-them-all/ The Singleton Design Pattern in C# ensures only one instance of a class exists and provides a global access point. It's ideal for managing shared resources like logging, configuration, or database con... | | | | |
| Building a Face Detection System with .NET 9 | | https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/building-a-face-detection-system-with-net-9/ Build a real-time face detection app using .NET 9 and OpenCV via Emgu.CV. This project leverages a webcam and Haar cascades to detect faces, ideal for learning computer vision basics. | | | | |
| Calling MCP Servers in C# with Microsoft.Extensions.AI | | https://markheath.net/post/2025/4/14/calling-mcp-server-microsoft-extensions-ai I've updated my demo application to support calling MCP tools, following the techniques demonstrated in Microsoft's Chat With Tools sample. I posted recently about how to allow LLMs to call tools usin... | |  | | |
| C# Made Me Like Programming — Here’s Why | | https://medium.com/@fulton_shaun/c-made-me-like-programming-heres-why-fd4e8db4457f How one language changed the way I see code | |  | | |
| The Only 3 Videos You Need to Get Started with MCP! | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRfOiB0Im64 | |  | | |
| Vibe-coding for security | | https://textslashplain.com/2025/04/15/vibe-coding-for-security/ Recently, there's been a surge in the popularity of trojan clipboard attacks whereby the attacker convinces the user to carry their attack payload across a security boundary and compromise the device.... | |  | | |
