Tag: .NET Core

Early December 2020, we released JetBrains Space. Along with it, we built a Kotlin SDK and a .NET SDK. In this post, I want to walk you through the process of building that .NET SDK. This is another half-book blog post, so I’ve included a table of contents for you to jump to the parts you may be interested in. I’ve tried my best to build up the story, so of course, reading this post in full is highly appreciated. Let’s start with the basics…

Chances are you keep a personal calendar, maybe a family calendar, and a work calendar. Working from home, it’s super important to keep these calendars more or less in sync. Colleagues book meetings because your work calendar shows you’re available, while in reality you’ve planned to do some errands or maybe pick up your kids from school.

Last week, I came across the following question: “Is there an async producer/consumer collection these days in .NET?” Why yes, there is! Using System.Threading.Channels, we can create producer/consumer pairs, and we can even chain them together in a pipeline. In this post, I will try to explain concurrency, producer/consumer, and System.Threading.Channels concepts using a practical example, to refresh our collective memories.

In this post, we’ll look at writing a simple system for scheduling tasks in ASP.NET Core 2.0. That’s quite a big claim, so I want to add a disclaimer: this system is mainly meant to populate data in our application’s cache in the background, although it can probably be used for other things as well. It builds on the ASP.NET Core 2.0 IHostedService interface. Before we dive in, I want to give some of the background about why I thought of writing this.