We rewrote a legacy Delphi (Object Pascal) application into a .NET C# service worker in three months, beating a five-month deadline for a client in the healthcare software space.
Here’s what actually made that possible and the pitfalls we hit using LLMs along the way.
It’s common to face challenges around long-running workflows, state management, and resiliency when you’re building cloud-native applications. Traditional approaches like background services or message queues might work sometimes, but they often require a lot of “glue code” and custom retry logic. This entails not only more work up-front for the developer, but also more maintenance in the long run.
That’s where Azure Durable Functions come in.
LINQ (which stands for Language Integrated Query) is a library of collection manipulation methods that makes organizing and picking data out of collections much easier. LINQ can save a lot of time that would otherwise be spent writing complicated for or foreach loops. As with the nature of collections in programming, sometimes you will be working with gargantuan data sets and other times with smaller yet complicated collections.
There is no doubt that VS Code is one of the most popular development IDEs around these days. With clean layouts and a broad library of extensions that cater to an amazing list of development languages, it’s easy to imagine why it’s so popular. However, when it came to C# development, there were comforts that could be found in Visual Studio but not in VS Code. That is until recently…
This year, Microsoft released an extension for VS Code that helps bring those missing comforts of developing C# in Visual Studio to VS Code: the C# Dev Kit extension, which is approaching 1 million downloads with active updates. If you are an API and UI developer looking to stay in a single IDE, or maybe a Linux developer who is not able to install Visual Studio, this should excite you.
In this post, we’ll walk through some of the features that this extension brings to VS Code.
Client Snapshot: AMC Theatres, the largest movie theater chain in the world Project Snapshot: A team of two Keyhole Software consultants partnered with AMC engineers to modernize and enhance critical internal applications within the AMC ecosystem. These applications support key operational functions, including booking and scheduling films at theaters worldwide, managing administrative tasks such as pricing and formatting, and ensuring …