Discriminated Unions in C#
Discriminated unions have been a long-standing request for C#. While F# users have had discriminated unions for years, C# developers will have to wait a bit longer. Read more »
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Running Large Language Models locally – Your own ChatGPT-like AI in C#
For the past few months, a lot of news in tech as well as mainstream media has been around ChatGPT, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) product by the folks at OpenAI. ChatGPT is a Large Language Model (LLM) that is fine-tuned for conversation. While undervaluing the technology with this statement, it’s a smart-looking ... Read more »
Getting rid of warnings with nullable reference types and JSON object models in C#
In my blog series, Nullable reference types in C# - Migrating to nullable reference types, we discussed the benefits of enabling nullable reference types in your C# code, and annotating your code so the compiler and IDE can give you more reliable hints about whether a particular variable or property may need to be c... Read more »
Mastodon on your own domain without hosting a server
Like many in the past week, I have been having a serious look at Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter. Read more »
Rate limiting in web applications - Concepts and approaches
Your web application is running fine, and your users are behaving as expected. Life is good! Read more »
ASP.NET Core rate limiting middleware in .NET 7
Rate limiting is a way to control the amount of traffic that a web application or API receives, by limiting the number of requests that can be made in a given period of time. This can help to improve the performance of the site or application, and to prevent it from becoming unresponsive. Read more »
How to test ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs
How do you test that your ASP.NET Core Minimal API behaves as expected? Do you need to deploy your application? Can you write tests with frameworks like xUnit, NUnit, or MSTest? Read more »
Techniques and tools to update your C# project - Migrating to nullable reference types - Part 4
Previously, we saw how you can help the compiler’s flow analysis understand your code, by annotating your code for nullability. Read more »
Annotating your C# code - Migrating to nullable reference types - Part 3
In the previous post, we looked at some internals of C# nullable reference types, and the nullable annotation context. Read more »
Internals of C# nullable reference types - Migrating to nullable reference types - Part 2
In the previous post, we saw that with nullable reference types enabled, you get better static flow analysis when working on your code. While nullable reference types don’t give you runtime safety, the design-time and compile-time help is priceless! Read more »