Steven Giesel is a Senior Software Engineer and Microsoft MVP with over 13 years of experience, specializing in .NET and modern backend development. He shares deep technical knowledge across topics such as C#, EF Core, RavenDB, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures, and is an active speaker in the .NET community.
311 articles from this blog
Announcing new features in NCronJob, a .NET job scheduler, including dependent jobs and Minimal API support.
Explains how Entity Framework protects against SQL injection in LINQ queries but warns of risks when using raw SQL, highlighting safer alternatives.
Explains how HttpClient's await behavior works with response headers vs. body, and how to control it using HttpCompletionOption.
Explores StringBuilder performance and memory usage for creating very large strings in C#, comparing it to using a List.
Explains how to cancel a C# task using multiple CancellationToken sources by linking them with CancellationTokenSource.CreateLinkedTokenSource.
Explains why certain exception instances like OutOfMemoryException are pre-allocated in .NET memory dumps, even in simple applications.
Explains the differences between .NET's MemoryCache, DistributedCache, and the new HybridCache, including their use cases and code examples.
A guide on using the httpgenerator tool to automatically create HTTP request files from a Swagger/OpenAPI definition for easier API testing.
Announces major updates to NCronJob, a .NET cron job library, including concurrency control, retry policies, and time zone support.
Explores performance improvements in .NET 9's LINQ methods, including OrderBy.ToList and Chunk, using benchmarks and SIMD optimizations.
A guide to using .NET Analyzers to improve code quality, covering setup, configuration, and enabling them across projects.
Learn how to use the dotnet CLI to check your .NET solution for NuGet packages with known vulnerabilities or that are deprecated.
Explains how C# List<T> detects modifications during enumeration using a version field to throw InvalidOperationException.
Analyzes whether using the 'readonly' modifier in C# leads to performance improvements by examining generated IL and JIT code.
Analyzes the claim that AI will replace human programmers in five years, examining current AI coding benchmarks and limitations.
A guide to building a fluent API in C# for awaiting multiple asynchronous calls and retrieving their results in a strongly-typed, elegant manner.
Explains how to add deconstructors to third-party C# types using extension methods, enabling tuple deconstruction for unmodifiable code.
Explores a surprising C# compiler warning when using pattern matching with nullable properties, revealing edge cases in static analysis.
C# 13 may allow the use of 'ref' and 'unsafe' in iterators and async methods, addressing current limitations with references and spans.
Introducing NCronJob, a lightweight .NET job scheduler library that sits between BackgroundService and full-featured schedulers like Hangfire.
