I had a junior developer commenting on a PR that it’s missing a null check before calling an extension method on a string as the string can be null and it would throw a null reference exception. This results in an interesting discussion among the developers. Let’s say the extension method looks something like this. … [Read more…]
I came across this article a while ago which was very interesting so it got my attention. Basically, LINQ may automatically optimize multiple methods by combining them or change the execution order. If you have OrderBy(…).First(…) or OrderBy(…).FirstOrDefault(…), it might not execute as you would expect. My first thought is it the First() or FirstOrDefault() … [Read more…]
As mentioned in the previous post, all the projects at work are in the process of upgrading to latest .NET Core 3+. In this post, I’ll be discussing another issue we come across during the upgrade. One of the projects has a custom Authorize attribute where we need to read the request body. The custom … [Read more…]