Avoid hardcoded Microsoft URLs with Bicep environments
Bicep has a great feature, which meanwhile also leads to warnings during execution if you don't pay attention to it: the avoidance of static values l
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Create a Fulltext Catalog with EF Core .NET Migrations for MSSQL
A full-text catalog in Microsoft SQL Server is a specialized storage that is used to store and manage full-text indexes for one or more tables in a d
My Top Microsoft Ignite 2022 News
Microsoft Ignite is a classic IT conference, but it also has news for us developers regarding innovations in our ecosystem. Enclosed are the news tha
Compile Linq Expressions to increase performance
Expressions are now an absolute part of a developer's everyday life in .NET thanks to Linq. However, due to their nature, expressions are not one of
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 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
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#
Beginning with C# 3, variables that are declared at method scope can have an implicit "type" var. An implicitly typed local variable is st
Embed Code into your blog - and also on Medium
There are several ways to integrate source code including code highlighting into blogs, but GitHub Gists are by far the most convenient and best main
Requesting Microsoft Defender HTTP API with .NET and Refit
The Microsoft Defender API - or Azure Security Center API - is an interface to obtain security-related information from its M365 or Azure tenant. At