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• Unit Testing while maintaining access restrictions

  By dccoder on November 25, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Let’s start off by saying that if you’re not writing Unit Tests….you should.  Unit testing is everywhere these days, from Bootcamps, to tutorials, to books.  There is a good reason behind this too.  Unit tests help developers create a fully… Read More ›

• Flow control: If/else, switches and….dictionaries?

  By dccoder on November 1, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  .NET languages have a variety of forms of flow control, if statements are easily among the most noticeable. When having to compare multiple statements it is common practice to utilize switch statements due to it’s improved performance, but is there… Read More ›

• Reinstalling Nuget Packages

  By dccoder on October 4, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  So the majority of this morning I have been struggling trying to get a project to correctly build, fighting nuget packages.  The issue was coming from missing dependencies.  I tried all sorts of methods through visual studio to attempt to… Read More ›

• Code Lint – What is it? What can help?

  By dccoder on August 20, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  So what exactly is code lint?  I’m sure we’ve all heard of a linter but how many out there have actually taken the time to sit down and use one?  What are they used for?  Well, getting rid of code… Read More ›

• Building a self-hosted API with OWIN

  By dccoder on August 10, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  So it’s Friday and I haven’t published anything this week yet.  Figured I’d push out a short and quick tutorial on OWIN and give everyone something to play with over the weekend! What is Owin? OWIN is an acronym that… Read More ›

• Why I don’t post on the weekends

  By dccoder on July 30, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  I do my best to continue to push content and well-written, informative, articles out to my subscribers.  You may,  or may not, have noticed that no content goes out on the weekends.  Aside from maybe the odd pre-scheduled post.  The… Read More ›

• Hello C# 8, goodbye null reference!

  By dccoder on July 13, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Say hello to C# 8.0 and goodbye to those nasty little null-reference exceptions!   That’s right, Microsoft is getting ready to release yet another major version of the language!  This has been common knowledge for a little while now, so I… Read More ›

• How to get started blogging?

  By dccoder on July 11, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Throughout my many years on this earth I have tried my hand at blogging. And to be honest, I had no idea what I was doing.  I see a lot of my peers beginning their blogs, trying to build a… Read More ›

• Comments are useless, sometimes evil!

  By dccoder on July 9, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  That’s right, I said it. Comments are evil. But wait a minute, I hear you say, they tell us about the code, help us explain what is going on, etc etc.  I’m not saying comments can’t be useful in code,… Read More ›

• Material design, what is it and why you should be using it.

  By dccoder on July 5, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Lately there has been a lot of uptick in Material Design.  More bloggers are blogging, and more designers are designing, but as a developer what do you need to know about Material Design?  The best place to start is to… Read More ›