C#

After some discussions on Twitter a few new ways of using WhenAny with Tasks of different types came up. Here is what I think will be my last post on this topic for a while, probably…

If you use WhenAny with different types of Task you may want to do something when the first finishes, but also wait for the second to finish. Here’s how.

Sometimes you want to start multiple tasks in parallel, and you only care about the first one that finishes. WhenAny is great in that scenario…except when the tasks are of different types. But with a bit of pattern matching, you can get it working.

A simple Hello World type application for Redis using C#.

Very quick post on using Lambda discards with Polly retries, includes an example with the HttpClientHandler too.

Working with Json directly in C# has always been a problem, but as Json becomes more common the problems mount. I was using AWS Step Functions recently and wanted to pass the Json string output from a Lambda running .NET Core 3.1. As with all things C# Json string related, it was not easy.

There are at least two ways to count the number of times a mocked method is called with Moq. The first is with the Verify method, the second is with the Callback method.

For the sheer fun of doing a little silly programming…

Discards can now be used with Lambdas in C# 9. Here is a simple example.

There is a bug in VS Code that occurs when you use string with @$ - the verbatim character and the interpolation characters, but there is a workaround.