When developing applications you will often need to deal with strings. And because string objects are costly in terms of performance, you will often want to compress your string content, i.e., the data inside your string objects, to reduce the paylo…
Azure Functions is the serverless compute offering in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Essentially, “serverless” means you don’t even need a virtual machine to run an Azure Function. Azure Functions are just an implementation of platform as a service (Paa…
Unit testing is how we ensure that the blocks of code we write do what we intended them to do. There are some open-source frameworks available to unit test .NET applications, namely, NUnit and xUnit.Net. You should always incorporate unit testing in…
Dispose and Finalize are two methods for releasing resources held by .NET and .NET Core applications executing in the context of the CLR. If your application contains unmanaged resources, you must write the necessary code to release those resources …
