C# - How to create, build and run a "hello world" console app on Linux
This post describes how to create a simple Console application and run it on Linux, for this we will be using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) »
C# - How to Work with Files and Folders
In C# you have several ways to interact with files and folders, the most common are the File, Directory and FileInfo classes. Using these classes you »
C# - How to get a random number
In C# you can use the Random class to get random numbers: Random random = new Random(); var diceRoll = random.Next(1,7); In the above we »
C# - Convert DateTime or DateTimeOffset to and from unix timestamp
In C# you can easily convert a DateTimeOffset to Unix time in seconds or miliseconds using the built-in methods ToUnixTimeSeconds or ToUnixTimeMilliseconds: var dateTimeOffset = DateTimeOffset.Now; »
C# - Entity Framework handling Migrate() when deploying old versions of code
Some code bases use the .Migrate() or .MigrateAsync() to upgrade their databases to the newest version. Using .Migrate() with no additional parameters upgrades the database to »
C# - SelectTokens get multiple properties from a JSON structure
I have made a quite a few posts about SelectToken and SelectTokens by now. This post describes how to get two or more properties from a »
C# - NSubstitute, how to mock and match a call that takes a list of items as a parameter
NSubstitute is a great framework for mocking objects for tests. I recently had an unexpected behaviour when stubbing a method call. For this simple example we »
C# - How to compare a list of strings, ints or longs with another list
You can check if two lists have the same content and in the same sequence using SequenceEqual:
var list1 = new List
C# - How to start a task without waiting for it to finish
This post demonstrates how to run a piece of code asynchronously in C#. This is easily achieved with the Task library. You can start a new »
C# - List VS Array, differences and when to use what
Both Lists and Arrays in C# are collections* that can hold simple types, objects and structs. We will start by going through the basics of arrays »