C# Featured Shrinking a Self-Contained .NET 6 Wordle-Clone Executable Shrinking the size of an executable in .NET can be more than just TrimMode. Join me in this post where we will look at the compiler, linker, and the experimental .NET AOT in order to further shrink the .exe of a Wordle clone, TinyWordle.
C# Featured Writing a .NET Music Discord Bot for a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W: Brotherman Bill This post takes us through creating a music Discord bot using C#, Lavalink, and Victoria while running on a small Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W.
C# Viewing IL Generated by the C# Compiler With ILSpy ILSpy makes it easy to view decompiled IL that was generated by the C# compiler. This post will walk you through the few short steps needed to see your IL code.
C# Featured QR Code Pings With Azure Functions and Azure SignalR A fun little project where a QR code gets an animated rainbow border when it's scanned. The post contains a working demo and an explanation of all the steps behind it using Azure Functions and an Azure SignalR Service.
Powershell Because it is being used by another process: Why There Isn't a No-Dependency, One Line Powershell Solution While Powershell is incredibly flexible, the openness lends itself to be non-specific in some cases, such as for finding out what is keeping a lock on a file.
C# Featured Why is .GetAwaiter().GetResult() bad in C#? Why is .GetAwaiter().GetResult(), or .Wait() or .Result bad? It ends up boiling down to deadlocks and threadpool starvation. This post gives a gentle, high up look at why this may happen.
Procedural Generation Generating a Procedural 2D Map in C#: Part 3: The Redo Taking lessons from Part 1 and Part 2, I'll be taking a dive into creating solid foundations for future parts. We'll be looking at flexibility for generation, saving, and printing.
C# Tricky Operator Names in C# A list of symbol based C# operators, what they do and the links to documentation for times when searching question marks doesn't return what I want.
C# Pooling in C# We all know pooling is useful for performance, so let's check out what .NET comes with out of the box and see how it's all used.
C# Featured Looking at Entity Framework 6 Execution Strategies, Specifically SqlAzureExecutionStrategy Implementing SqlAzureExecutionStrategy is easy, go ahead and lift it from here but this is also a deep dive into what makes it tick by looking at the EF6 source code for Execution Strategies.
Procedural Generation Generating a Procedural 2D Map in C#: Part 2 - Smooth Transitions The next step: making a stiff, jagged looking map into something a little smoother.
Procedural Generation Generating a Procedural 2D Map in C#: Part 1 - The Attempt Trying my hand at procedurally created 2D tile maps with C# from the nostalgic times of Pokémon.
C# Combining PDF documents using iText7 and C# Using a list of PDFs, it's easy to merge together all the documents into one.
C# Deleting pages of a PDF with iText7 and C# It's easy to use iText7 and C# to delete pages of a PDF. A byte array of that PDF and a list of integers is all you need.
C# Counting the number of pages of a PDF with iText7 and C# Using the built-in iText7 call, it's easy to get the number of pages in a PDF.
