Recently I was looking into a new way to use mocks in my unit tests. My framework of choice to write unit tests is XUnit, whereas I use Moq to create Mocks. …

Getting started with C# script in your client-side git hooks — Why use hooks? We, as developers, love platforms like GitHub, GitLab, Atlassian, Azure DevOps etc., as our managed git system and collaboration platform. We also love clean code and keep inventing new linters and rules to enforce it. In my opinion, every commit should allow the codebase to deploy to production. There is…

Originally published over at kaylumah.nl on 07/06/2021 Anno 2022, as .NET developers, we are spoilt with multiple options for our development environment. Of course, having a choice sparks the debate that my IDE is better than your IDE. I feel that after bring your own device, we are moving to…

There are many aspects of code quality; testability and consistency come to mind. I don t find it hard to imagine that the longer a project takes with multiple engineers that work on it, the more inconsistencies are in your codebase. Thanks to the combination of .editorConfig and Roslyn Analyzers…

Almost every project will have some settings that are configured differently per environment. Chapter three of “The Twelve-Factor App” explains why separating configuration from code is a good idea. In .NET, we use the IConfigurationBuilder to manage our configuration. …

In application code, we are used to writing log statements primarily for diagnostic purposes. For instance, we use logs to capture unexpected error flows. Therefore it is not uncommon to want to capture the log output in our unit tests. …

There are many ways to structure your projects source code. My preference is a style called single-solution-model. Amongst other things, I like that it provides a single entry point to my project. If, however, your project grows, it can become slow to build it. …

I’ve recently worked on a project where I was the consumer of a third party API. Luckily for me, we decided on an Open API specification which made integrating services a breeze. If you have been following my content, you know I often use C# in my projects. …

For .NET, the standard mechanism for sharing packages is NuGet. A .nupkg file is an archive that contains your compiled code (DLLs), other files related to your code, and a manifest containing metadata (source). …