xUnit - How to check if a call does not throw an exception
If you are moving from NUnit to xUnit, you will likely encounter the absence of the DoesNotThrow method in xUnit. At first I believed this did »
C# - DateTimeOffset versus DateTime, why use offsets?
DateTime [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.datetime?view=netframework-4.8] and DatimeTimeOffset [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system. »
C# - Structs vs classes (reference vs value type) and when to use what
I never use structs - there I have said it. Not because I don't like them or feel they have no use, but I have »
C# - What does boxing and unboxing mean?
In this blogpost I will try to make a simple to understand description and example of boxing and unboxing. In order to understand what boxing and »
C# - tasks vs threads, what is the difference between threads and tasks? - updated 2023
I had a discussion a couple of weeks ago about tasks and threads. It occurred to me that I had rarely used threads and mostly used »
C# - How to break an async/await chain when calling something that is not asynchronous
I have sometimes found myself - at the end of a long chain of using async/await - calling something that is not using async. Sometimes at the »
C# - How to mock a HttpClient dependency for tests - updated 2023
In this post I will go through how you can mock the HttpClient class in C#. This is often needed as almost everything we develop these »
C# - Iterate through all items in a list In parallel and wait for them all to finish
You can easily iterate through each item in a list, run a function on each and wait for all to finish. All you have to do »
C# - What are object initializers and what do they do?
I had a conversation the other day on the topic of object initializers and what they do. In this post I will briefly elaborate on what »
C# - how to create a successfully completed task with a result
Tasks can be a bit of a pain when writing tests, especially when a dependency returns a task. Often it is just enough to return a »