C#

This post shows you how to use a synchronous call in a background service without blocking the application or other background services.

It’s not immediately obvious how you can share data between background services. In this post, I show ways of achieving this.

It’s not obvious how to get the operating system your C# application is running, but it can be done with a single line of code.

It’s not a problem to use Postgres C# and .NET. You can also use Entity Framework.

Getting the name of a method from a task is not trivial, but this post will show you how to do it and includes an extension method for you to use.

It can be useful to see what types of files are in a repository and how many of each type there are, how many comments, blank lines, etc. This post shows how to do this with local repositories.

When sending a cancellation request to a method that returns a value, you must return a value or throw an exception. Here is how to throw the exception.

Here is an example of using a cancellation token to stop the execution of a method.

If you are using something like a queue, you will have a message type, and embedded in that message type you will sometimes see a serialized object. To get the object back, you will need to deserialize the message and then deserialize the embedded object.

If you serialize an already serialized string, the serializer will replace double quotes with \u0022. Here is a way to get back the familiar \".