Editor's note
I put together a mixed grab bag today: some practical async and concurrency guidance, a Blazor intro, and a look at the new GitHub Copilot features in Visual Studio 2022 17.11. The C# 13 alternate dictionary lookup piece and the DDD article should both be useful if you like digging into newer language and design ideas. MessagePack also gets the library spotlight, which feels right after a weekend if you’ve been thinking about high-throughput caching.
Async, Blazor, and Copilot updates
Jasen Fici
September 03, 2024
Back at it after the long weekend! If you’re feeling a bit rusty after all that relaxation, today’s .NET roundup is the perfect way to reboot your brain and get back in the groove. Let’s dive back into the code!
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Developer of The Week
| devleader Nick Cosentino | Simplifying software engineering concepts for you | Principal Software Engineering Manager @Microsoft |  |
.NET Library of The Week
We’re going with MessagePack as this week’s library. I’ve had a number of production applications that required high-volume Redis caching and let me tell you .. nothing tests your serializers like Redis. The implementation is a little painful but once you get it working right, MessagePack is hands down the best serializer on the market.
