DateTime vs. DateTimeOffset - UtcNow vs. Now

DateTime vs. DateTimeOffset - UtcNow vs. Now

.NET has two principal ways for handling times: DateTime and DateTimeOffset. The big deficit of DateTime, which was also recognized early in .NET 1.0

Microsoft is moving backend services to .NET 6

Microsoft is moving backend services to .NET 6

Microsoft has announced in an impressive blog post on the .NET DevBlogs that they have started an enterprise-wide migration to migrate backend servic

Health Check Ping with EF Core and MSSQL

Health Check Ping with EF Core and MSSQL

Sometimes it is quite useful to be able to send a query to the MSSQL server independently of its schema; for example to check if the server is princi

Why you should no longer use var in C#

Why you should no longer use var in C#

Beginning with C# 3, variables that are declared at method scope can have an implicit "type" var. An implicitly typed local variable is st