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.NET Tools, Tips n' Tricks

UI Frameworks

• Avalonia
• SpaceVIL (.NET, .NET Core, JVM)
  • https://www.spvessel.com/
  • https://github.com/spvessel/spacevil

Blazor

• Intro to Blazor and Creating a Blazor App from Scratch
• How to Create a Blazor Component
• Blazor by Example - Build a simple traffic light
• WebWindow
  • https://gunnarpeipman.com/blazor-on-desktop-webwindow-experiment/
  • https://blog.stevensanderson.com/2019/11/01/exploring-lighter-alternatives-to-electron-for-hosting-a-blazor-desktop-app/
  • https://blog.stevensanderson.com/2019/11/18/2019-11-18-webwindow-a-cross-platform-webview-for-dotnet-core/
  • https://github.com/SteveSandersonMS/WebWindow

Code Generation

Roslyn-based

• https://gunnarpeipman.com/using-roslyn-to-build-object-to-object-mapper/

Threading

• A better ThreadLocal
• Unmanaged Thread Utils

Performance, .NET internals

• Everything in this post: http://mattwarren.org/2018/06/15/Tools-for-Exploring-.NET-Internals/
• Olivier Coanet: https://medium.com/@ocoanet
  • https://medium.com/@ocoanet/benchmarking-adventures-part-1-avoiding-boxing-fc7756385ffb
  • struct + generic trick (perfs): https://medium.com/@ocoanet/testing-without-mocking-5f1fddebc02b
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GTpwgsmHgU
    • https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/blob/a26c2277612692a0324509dd76df62349314c704/src/Sparrow/Sorter.cs

Michael's Coding Spot

• 7 Debugging Techniques for when your .NET application Freezes (hangs): https://michaelscodingspot.com/7-debugging-techniques-for-when-your-net-application-freezes-hangs/
• Job Queues Series:
  • Part 1: https://michaelscodingspot.com/c-job-queues/
  • Part 2: https://michaelscodingspot.com/c-job-queues-with-reactive-extensions-and-channels/
  • Part 3: https://michaelscodingspot.com/c-job-queues-part-3-with-tpl-dataflow-and-failure-handling/
  • Perf: https://michaelscodingspot.com/performance-of-producer-consumer/
• Pipelines Series:
  • Part 1: https://michaelscodingspot.com/pipeline-pattern-implementations-csharp/
  • Part 2: https://michaelscodingspot.com/pipeline-pattern-tpl-dataflow/
  • Part 3: https://michaelscodingspot.com/pipeline-implementations-csharp-3/

Async, Parallelism, multi-threading

• Async anti-patterns: https://markheath.net/post/async-antipatterns
• I took Stack Overflow offline, again: https://blog.marcgravell.com/2019/02/fun-with-spiral-of-death.html

Tips

• https://blog.mzikmund.com/2020/03/how-to-create-a-blank-solution-without-a-folder/