This article introduces Dapper to absolute beginners. The article is meant for developers who are primarily using ADO.NET to write their data access layers. Many experienced developers will find this article very basic but since the article is written from the perspective of beginners, I’ve tried to keep things simple. Continue reading
Azure – Design for virtual machines with high availability
In this article we will see how we can create highly available VMs in Azure. We will understand the concept of fault domains and update domains and how we can effectively leverage availability sets and vm scale sets to ensure high availability for our applications running on Azure VMs. Continue reading
Understanding Azure Load Balancing Solutions – Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway and Azure Traffic Manager
In this article we will look at the various load balancing solutions available in Azure and which one should be used in which scenario.
An Absolute Beginner’s Tutorial for Understanding and Implementing Composite Pattern in C#
The aim of this article is to understand the basics of the Composite pattern and try to see when it can be useful. We will also look at a toy application using composite pattern to get better understanding of the pattern. The example code in this article will be mainly for the illustration of this pattern and will be a not-so-real world example. The idea of this this article is to illustrate the concept of composite pattern only. Continue reading
CodeProject MVP 2017
And the week began with a the much awaited email titled “Congratulations! CodeProject MVP 2017”. So I have received the CodeProject MVP award this year too which is fifth time in a row for me now. I am now a CodeProject MVP for 2017 and it feels really good and proud. Continue reading
When creating an interface and/or abstract class is an overkill
This is a small tip containing my thoughts on why we should not blindly create interfaces and/or abstract class for each and every class in our application. These are more of thoughts and some people may not agree with my school of thought but the idea here is to share my opinion with others so that others can share their thoughts and I/we will get to learn from them. Continue reading
Understanding Retry Pattern with Exponential back-off and Circuit Breaker Pattern
In this article we will discuss the importance of retry pattern and how to implement it effectively in our applications. We will also discuss how exponential backoff and circuit breaker pattern can be used along with retry pattern. This is more of a theoretical article since the actual implementation of retry will depend a lot on the application needs. Continue reading
Lets write a Tiny IoC Container to learn(and for fun)
This article contains a small IoC container implementation just created for educational purpose. Continue reading
Beginner’s Tutorial on Understanding and Implementing Null Object Pattern in C#
In this article we will try to understand the Null object pattern and see how this pattern can help us to write more robust code. We will implement a contrived example to demonstrate this pattern. Continue reading
An Absolute Beginner’s Tutorial on Understanding and Implementing Singleton Pattern in C#
This article is yet another explanation and implementation of singleton pattern. We will look at what is singleton pattern is and how to implement it in C#. This is no way the best and recommended way of implementing singleton pattern in C#. the main idea for this article is just to present the concept of singleton pattern to the reader. Continue reading