Hot Chocolate is the premier GraphQL server for .NET. Version 11 brings “Zero Latency” execution engine improvements. Setup Projection The real power is in [UseProjection]. It translates nested GraphQL queries into optimized EF Core SQL queries (SELECT only what is requested).
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
Dependency Injection in .NET: Service Lifetimes
Using the wrong DI lifetime is the #1 cause of concurrency bugs in ASP.NET Core. We revisit Singleton, Scoped, and Transient with a focus on thread safety. The Three Lifetimes Lifetime Created… Thread Safety Transient Every time requested Safe (Instance per usage) Scoped Once per HTTP Request Safe (Single thread per request) Singleton Once per […]
Read more →.NET 6 Preview: What’s on the Roadmap
With .NET 5 shipped, Microsoft is effectively executing on its annual release cadence. .NET 6 is scheduled for November 2021. Based on GitHub issues and planning docs, here is what we can expect from the next Long Term Support (LTS) release. MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) The evolution of Xamarin.Forms into MAUI was delayed from .NET […]
Read more →Blazor WebAssembly Authentication with Azure AD
Securing a Single Page Application (SPA) can be tricky. Blazor WebAssembly makes it easier by providing built-in integration with OpenID Connect (OIDC) providers, including Azure Active Directory (AAD). Here is how to secure your app. App Registration First, register your app in the Azure Portal. 1. Create a “Single-page application” registration. 2. Set the Redirect […]
Read more →C# 9.0 Top-Level Programs: Reducing Boilerplate
C# has always been criticized for the “Hello World” ceremony. You needed a namespace, a class, and a static Main method just to print one line. C# 9 Top-Level Programs remove this requirement, bringing C# closer to scripting languages like Python for simple tasks and microservices. The New Entry Point Behind the Scenes The compiler […]
Read more →Source Generators in C# 9: Compile-Time Code Generation
Source Generators allow you to inspect code during compilation and generate new C# files on the fly. Unlike Reflection (runtime slow) or IL Weaving (complex), Source Generators are fast, debuggable, and integrated into Roslyn. How it Works Example: INotifyPropertyChanged Automate the boilerplate of MVVM. Key Takeaways Generators can **add** code, but cannot **modify** existing code. […]
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