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Explore the future of Blazor for .NET—with its growing adoption, Microsoft’s ongoing investment, and evolving tooling—to see whether it’s set to become a major framework for modern web development.
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Discover how C# with .NET ranks among programming languages in 2025. Explore its popularity, strengths, trends, and what its position means for developers and enterprises.
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Learn how to optimize and accelerate the startup time of your .NET or ASP.NET application. In this guide, you’ll find actionable techniques—such as Ahead-of-Time compilation, lazy initialization, asynchronous startup tasks, and warmup tuning—to reduce cold start latency and improve user experience.
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Ever wondered why .NET developers sometimes make less than Java, Python, or newer-stack engineers? This article examines the market forces, skill trends, and perceptions behind the pay differences—and how .NET pros can improve compensation.
2025-10-08 137 0 AutoMapper Mapster .NET
With AutoMapper shifting to a paid licensing model, many .NET developers are looking for a free, open-source alternative. Mapster is a powerful, high-performance mapping library you can adopt today. Here's how Mapster works, how to set it up, how to migrate your mappings, and tips for using it effectively.
2025-10-06 131 0 Bloom Filters .NET
Discover how to integrate Bloom filters into your .NET caching strategy. This article explores practical use cases, implementation tips, trade-offs, and sample C# code to prevent cache penetration and reduce database load.
Thinking of learning .NET C# this year? Discover the current demand, ecosystem evolution, pros and cons, and actionable tips to decide whether C# is a good choice for your career in 2025 and beyond.
2025-10-05 172 0 ASP.NET Core Native AOT
Explore whether ASP.NET Core MVC supports Native AOT in .NET 8 and beyond. Learn the current limitations, workarounds, compatibility issues, and when Native AOT makes sense (or doesn’t) for web apps.
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Explore the strengths, trade-offs, and suitable use cases of Magick.NET and SkiaSharp for image processing in .NET Core. Learn about their performance, feature sets, platform support, resource usage, and how to choose the right library for your project.
Learn how to use the C# nameof operator the right way. This practical guide shows best practices, pitfalls to avoid, and tips to improve code maintainability using nameof in exception handling, logging, reflection, enums, and more.
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Learn how to programmatically restart your ASP.NET Core application when appsettings change — including code patterns, hosting considerations, and alternatives for dynamic configuration reload.
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Learn how to upgrade from .NET 6 to .NET 8 with this step-by-step tutorial. Discover the benefits, upgrade process, and important considerations to ensure a smooth migration.