If you have a solution with many projects, it can be a challenge to make sure each NuGet Package has the version across all of your projects. Each PackageReference across all csproj files must specify the same version of the NuGet Package. Here are a couple of ways for managing NuGet PackageRerence Versions across your entire solution. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I created a video that accompanies this blog post. PackageReference First, in order for this to work, you must be using the new SDK style csproj files. This is where your NuGet packages are referenced via the <PackageReference>… Read More »NuGet PackageReference Versions SOLUTION Wide

If you’re writing a library for other developers to consume on NuGet or if you’re creating an API within your own project, stop throwing exceptions and start being explicit. Exceptions are like landmines. Consuming callers have absolutely no idea what exceptions you might throw or how/when/why they will step on one. C# is dishonest when it comes to looking at method signatures. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I created a video that accompanies this blog post. Honesty I first heard of the concept of honesty in programming languages from a video of Erik Meijer discussing functional programming. Take for example… Read More »Stop throwing Exceptions! Start being Explicit

If you’re using Scoped Lifetime in a Dependency Injection containers, beware! You may be run into race conditions due to a lack of thread safety. I was doing a live stream on Domain Events over on my YouTube Channel where I was taking advantage of Scoped Lifetime. After the stream, I realized Scoped Lifetime and thread safety isn’t mentioned much and I’m not sure why? It could be because developers aren’t using multiple threads within the top-level request (HTTP request or service bus message invocation). Or it’s because developers are writing thread-safe code by default. I tend to think it’s… Read More »Thread Safety & Scoped Lifetime in Dependency Injection Containers