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Auto Format your Code on save with Visual Studio
26 Nov 2024

Auto Format your Code on save with Visual Studio

By BEN ABT CSharp .NET 2 min reading time

Code formatting is a very important element when developers work together on a project - and you are always well advised not to invent your own formatting rules, but to use those that are a standard or de facto standard in the respective programming language.
In C#, many rules are now controlled via the editorconfig , but there is still a lack of standardized formatting tools in .NET - dotnet format simply does not support many things - so that different functionalities exist in different IDEs (Visual Studio , Visual Studio Code, Rider).

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Sustainable Code with .NET 9
20 Nov 2024

Sustainable Code with .NET 9

By BEN ABT CSharp .NET 9 min reading time

Sustainable Code is a constantly growing GitHub repository created by me , in which I collect various everyday code snippets and measure the performance of the different implementation ways.
The goal is to create a collection of code that virtually everyone has in front of them every day and can thus easily implement the best way for themselves and their use case.

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How to process ZIP Files from a Stream in .NET
24 Aug 2024

How to process ZIP Files from a Stream in .NET

By BEN ABT CSharp .NET 2 min reading time

When working with ZIP files in .NET, there may be cases where the file is not stored on disk but comes directly as a Stream. This could happen if you’re downloading the ZIP file from a network, receiving it via an API, or working with in-memory file data. In this blog post, I’ll show you a simple example of handling ZIP files using streams in .NET and how to process their content without saving the ZIP to disk.

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Decompress a ZIP archive with .NET
16 Aug 2024

Decompress a ZIP archive with .NET

By BEN ABT CSharp .NET 2 min reading time

Working with compressed files is common in many applications, whether you’re extracting data from an archive, installing software packages, or retrieving bundled files. Thankfully, .NET finally provides an efficient, straightforward way to decompress ZIP files using the System.IO.Compression namespace. In this post, I’ll walk through a simple code snippet that you can use to decompress ZIP files in your .NET apps.

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Efficiently clean a string with .NET
28 May 2024

Efficiently clean a string with .NET

By BEN ABT CSharp .NET 6 min reading time

Strings are one of the most commonly used types in .NET applications - and very often the source of inefficient code. For example, cleaning up a string - such as removing invalid or non-visible characters - is one of the most common use cases for user input. Unfortunately, the most convenient, but not the most efficient, implementation imaginable is used in this case: Linq.

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