The Microsoft Graph and Entra documentation are both very comprehensive and provide a lot of information - but they often contain no examples or no working examples. In addition, the SDKs are either not, insufficiently or incorrectly documented.
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Often you don’t need all the configurations of an app per stage; sometimes they are optional. This is often the case for the development stage in particular.
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If you browse through certain libraries or the .NET Runtime from time to time, you will notice that the attribute MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining can be found in some places - but what is this actually?
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New year - new .NET drama. You would have thought that positive lessons had been learned from the last Moq drama; but we were proven wrong.
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In the world of Microsoft SQL Server , views are a powerful tool for simplifying complex data queries. Simple views offer no real performance gain but are often used to implement simple database queries (I still would prefer App implementations over Database implementations for simple views). But indexed views offer a real performance gain.
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Recently I have been working more and more with HTML and frontend development in general and had the task of loading favicons from various addresses to make links more visually attractive.
Here I came across a hidden Google API to load favicons.
EF Core Migration Bundles
are standalone executable files that contain one or more Entity Framework Core
migrations and can be applied directly to a database. They are particularly useful for deploying migrations independently of the source code or development environment, e.g. in production environments.
Using migration bundles simplifies the deployment process as no additional software or configuration is required to perform the migrations. In CI/CD systems like Azure DevOps
in particular, they can be executed across all platforms on all operating systems and therefore offer a flexible alternative to DACPAC deployments
, which are often dependent on Windows tooling.
There are various reasons why it is useful to channel certain requests through your own application to an external endpoint; the most obvious is, for example, as a workaround for client statistics from browser adblockers like Microsoft Clarity or Cloudflare Web Analytics.
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Rate Limit is a great tool to protect your own website and content from misuse; in some cases, however, rate limiting is also bad: for example, if you want your own content to be indexed by Google Search in order to increase your own visibility.
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There are many ways to remove spaces or other characters in a string - there are just very big differences in terms of performance and efficiency.
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