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Understanding Task vs ValueTask
These days most of the Interfaces we are seeing with methods have a return type as ValueTask. So, through this article, we are going to understand What is ValueTask? How…
Understanding Thread Starvation in .NET Core Applications
Most of the applications will be facing a performance issue while scaling and this might be due to thread starvation. Before getting into the thread starvation problem, we need to…
Working with Async/Await/Task keywords in depth
Modern systems are coming more powerful with multiple processors. Similarly, the modern server application development also improved to leverage the host CPU power for processing multiple requests in parallel to…
Understanding worker thread and I/O Completion Port (IOCP)
Every .NET/.NET Core application is associated with a thread pool and is a collection of threads that effectively executes asynchronous calls of an application. These threads on the thread pool…
Working with Smarter Enums in C#
Enum means enumeration , mentioning things one by one, and enum type is a special data type that enables a variable to be a set of predefined constants. Below is…
Consume OData feed with C# Client Application
Introduction OData represents Open Data Protocol is an OASIS standard initiated by Microsoft in the year 2007. This defines the best practices for the consumption of data and building with…
Hackerrank: SQL Query to get Customer Name who made max order in 10 years
Hackerrank is one of the top websites that help us to test our skills in different areas like C#, SQL, JAVA. Following is the SQL Query asked at Hackerrank. Problem…
Understanding Semaphore in .NET Core
Semaphore class in is a thin wrapper around the Win32 Semaphore object. This is used to controls access to a resource or pool of resources concurrently. SemaphoreSlim class is lightweight…
Generate the code files Using Visual Studio and CLI
If you are working with Database First Approach while using Entity Framework Core, then there will be a requirement to generate the code files or Model files for the given…
Implementing Dependency Injection in .NET Core Console Applications
Before reading this article, readers should have a basic understanding of Dependency Injection as well as .NET Core. In general, when we create a new .NET core web applications, the…