Tag: dotnet

Wire OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs into a .NET 11 ASP.NET Core app with the OTLP exporter, then ship them to a free, self-hosted backend: the standalone Aspire Dashboard for local dev, Jaeger and SigNoz for self-hosted production, and the OpenTelemetry Collector when you need both.

A complete guide to running ASP.NET Core integration tests against a real SQL Server 2022 using Testcontainers 4.11 and EF Core 11: WebApplicationFactory wiring, IAsyncLifetime, swapping the DbContext registration, applying migrations, parallelism, Ryuk cleanup, and CI gotchas.

Claude Code v2.1.122 adds the ANTHROPIC_BEDROCK_SERVICE_TIER environment variable, sent as the X-Amzn-Bedrock-Service-Tier header. Set it to flex for a 50 percent discount on agent calls or priority for faster responses, without touching SDK code.

A complete guide to per-endpoint rate limiting in ASP.NET Core 11: when to pick fixed window vs sliding window vs token bucket vs concurrency, how RequireRateLimiting and [EnableRateLimiting] differ, partitioning by user or IP, the OnRejected handler, and the distributed deployment pitfall everyone hits.

System.Threading.Lock arrived in .NET 9 and is the default synchronization primitive on .NET 11 and C# 14. This guide shows how to migrate from lock(object), how EnterScope works, and the gotchas around await, dynamic, and downlevel targets.

A complete guide to building your own incremental source generator for INotifyPropertyChanged in C# 14 and .NET 11: the IIncrementalGenerator pipeline, marker attributes, partial-class output, the SetProperty pattern, and how to stay AOT-friendly.

FileSystemWatcher fires Changed before the writer is done. Three reliable patterns for .NET 11 to know a file is fully written: open with FileShare.None, debounce with size stabilization, and the producer-side rename trick that avoids the problem entirely.

SearchValues<T> beats IndexOfAny by 5x to 250x but only when you use it the way the runtime expects. The cache-as-static rule, the StringComparison gotcha, when not to bother, and the IndexOfAnyExcept inversion trick that nobody documents.

SkiaSharp 4.0 Preview 1 lands with Uno Platform as co-maintainer alongside the .NET team. SKPath becomes immutable behind a new SKPathBuilder, and HarfBuzzSharp gets full OpenType variable font axis control.

Upload multi-GB files to Azure Blob Storage from .NET 11 without loading them into memory. BlockBlobClient.UploadAsync with StorageTransferOptions, MultipartReader for ASP.NET Core uploads, and the buffering traps that put your payload on the LOH.