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Historically, .NET Framework was a Windows-only software development framework. In fact, many developers who don’t regularly work with it still believe that .NET and its languages, such as C#, are only available on Windows. It all changed in 2016 when .NET Core was released. The biggest selling point of .NET Core over its predecessor, .NET […]

Microsoft has spent a lot of time and effort developing its main functional language, F#. Over time, it has been given many cutting-edge features and tooling, far better than anything available in any other language on the .NET platform. This has got the software development community excited and the official Visual Studio Magazine article where the announcement was

Test-driven development (TDD) is all the hype these days, especially if you frequent LinkedIn and various software development community forums. It’s almost like a religion these days. Many TDD evangelists will keep saying that it’s the best thing since sliced bread. They will try to convince everyone to start using it. Some even go as

.NET developers who are new to AWS Lambda functions often struggle to figure out how to test them locally. The documentation is somewhat sparse or it proposes excessively complicated ways of doing this. For example, there are articles and YouTube tutorials proposing to use AWS Serverless Application Model Command Line Interface (SAM). Well, there is

In your software development career, you will have to spend a lot of time finding bugs in the code and figuring out why it doesn’t do the thing it’s supposed to do. This is what the process of debugging is all about. Because debugging is where the majority of developers will spend their lion’s share

ASP.NET Core is the main web application development framework in .NET, which is the core software development platform of the Microsoft stack. It comes with various application templates that would allow developers to build any kind of web application. For example, a simple REST API interface can be built by using the Web API project

On the most fundamental level, a web application consists of client-side code and markup, server-side code, and a database. Many small websites and small-to-medium enterprise-level browser-based applications consist of nothing other than these components. However, on its own, this basic setup is not suitable for a big data application. Big data is not just a

Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) and Structured Query Language (SQL) associated with them represent a mature technology that existed for over 30 years. However, a group of data storage technologies based on a completely different paradigm, collectively known as NoSQL, is establishing itself as a popular alternative, especially within performance-critical systems that are intended to

In the previous article, we had a look at how to scale a SignalR hub by using Redis backplane. But you can also scale your hubs by using Azure SignalR Service. And this is what we will have a look at in this article. Using Azure SignalR Service has some advantages over using Redis backplane.