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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
• Ooui

Code Generation

Roslyn-based

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

Threading / Async / Parallelism

• Async anti-patterns
• I took Stack Overflow offline, again
• A better ThreadLocal<T>
• Unmanaged Thread Utils
• C# : TASK PARALLEL LIBRARY (TPL) WITH ASYNC AWAIT AND TASKCOMPLETIONSOURCE FOR ASYNC I/O OPERATIONS
• An introduction to System.Threading.Channels

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/

CLI

• DragonFruit and System.CommandLine is a new way to think about .NET Console apps

Tips

• https://blog.mzikmund.com/2020/03/how-to-create-a-blank-solution-without-a-folder/
• Debugging .NET Builds with the MSBuild Structured Log Viewer
• Empty try with finally
• Dynamic loading of native code with .NET
• Making my first contribution on SourceForge using Mercurial (note: the part concerning Hg and Sourceforge is not that interesting, but the beginning of the post is)

Libs

• Sasa