What are the Best Ways to Improve .NET Performance?

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The best ways to improve .NET performance hinge on understanding how crucial every millisecond is to user satisfaction and business outcomes. Enhancing your .NET applications is not just a technical challenge—it’s a business necessity. Monitoring the health and efficiency of your software is as vital as caring for your loved ones. This blog will explore effective strategies to boost your …

Using RegEx In Visual Studio Code

Using RegEx in VSCode For Powerful Searching

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This post demonstrates some of my favorite search techniques that work well in VSCode, including some basic RegEx (Regular Expressions) expressions that will help you find exactly what you’re looking for in an unfamiliar code base. We will cover VSCode file type inclusions and exclusions, single-line multi-term searching, conditional searching, and more. RegEx can be intimidating to people who aren’t used to using it, but luckily the RegEx expressions described in this post are very easy to remember and incredibly powerful.

What is MSAL and How Does It Work?

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MSAL, or Microsoft Authentication Library, is an essential tool for developers aiming to implement robust authentication systems efficiently. It streamlines the integration of security protocols into applications, supporting various authentication methods such as OpenID Connect and JWT (JSON Web Tokens). MSAL enables developers to concentrate on application functionality while maintaining high security standards. Security in Technology The importance of robust …

.NET in the Cloud: How to Leverage AWS/Azure for Scalable Solutions

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As enterprises increasingly adopt cloud technologies, the importance of scalable and efficient solutions like Microsoft’s .NET has never been more evident. This platform, compatible with leading cloud services like AWS and Azure, is ideal for both modernizing legacy systems and creating new applications. By leveraging AWS/Azure, businesses can enhance application performance and boost developer productivity. Explore how to leverage AWS/Azure …

The Visual Studio Experience for C# in VS Code

The Visual Studio Experience with C# in VS Code

Adam Costenbader .NET, Articles, C#, Development Technologies & Tools Leave a Comment

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.