C#

This is a follow-up to my CLI consumer for Kafka in C#. Here is a simple CLI producer in C#.

I used to use the Confluent CLI to consume messages from Kafka, but recently it stopped working for me. So I wrote my own simple CLI consumer in C#.

Just for the sheer joy of it, here is a simple C# program that encodes Morse code messages and plays them on Windows and Linux.

Sorting strings that contain numbers gets a little more complicated when the number has a variable number of digits. You can end up with a list like this - 1, 10, 11, 12, 2, 3, 4…

I usually want to run a task immediately, but there are times when I want to create a task, but not start it until later. This post will show you how to do defer execution of a task.

There are a few ways to kill a host application from a BackgroundService. In this post I’ll show what is probably the most correct way.

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.