Labeled break and continue statements in C# 15
Goto statements have been a part of C# since the very first version, but at least I haven't seen them being used very often. In C# 15, labels can also be used in combination with continue and break...
View ArticleIndexer extension members in C# 15
Last year, extension members were the biggest new feature of C# 14. I wrote about them in detail in multiple blogposts. This year, extension indexers are being added to C# 15 which didn't make it into...
View ArticleCollection expressions with arguments in C# 15
Collection expressions were introduced in C# 12. I wrote a blog post about them at that time. In C# 15, the syntax is being extended with the ability to provide additional arguments to the underlying...
View ArticleCustom union types in C# 15
In the previous blog post I explored what union types bring to C#. But what does the compiler do under the hood? And do I need to know about that to fully take advantage of union types? Each union type...
View ArticleUnion types in C# 15
Continuing with the topic of switch expression exhaustiveness in C# 15, I chose union types as the next new language feature to explore. Before C# 15, there were several ways to return multiple...
View ArticleClosed class hierarchies in C# 15
The release of C# 15 is getting closer and its new features started to show up in the .NET 11 previews. That's a good time for me to take a closer look at what to expect. I'm starting with closed class...
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Switching restic backup from NFS to SFTP
For over a year, I've been using restic to back up my home lab server to a repository on a Synology NAS mounted locally using NFS. All this time, it worked for me without any issues whatsoever. Only...
View ArticleInstalling preview .NET SDK in Arch Linux
I'm in the process of switching from Windows 11 to CachyOS on my home machine. Of course, my setup also includes .NET development tooling. And with the upcoming .NET 11 release, I want to have access...
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Manually trigger workflow from non-main branch
As a part of migrating my blog to Azure Static Web Apps, I also had to modify my GitHub Actions deployment workflow. Usually, I only want the deployment to get triggered from the main branch but during...
View ArticleApex domain redirect for Azure Static Web Apps
After reimplementing redirects in Azure Static Web App using managed Azure Functions, there was one last redirect I couldn't implement in this way and had to find another solution for: redirecting all...
View ArticleWriting tests for HTTP-triggered Azure Functions
As I was implementing redirects in Azure Functions for my blog, I wanted to be able to test them as efficiently as possible. Although you can run and test an Azure function locally, and I did, I also...
View ArticleRegex based redirects for Static Web Apps
The biggest challenge of moving my blog to Azure Static Web Apps were the redirects. I still support permalinks from my previous blog engine and I previously used back-references in IIS rewrite module...
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JSON files in TypeScript Azure Functions
In the process of moving my blog to Azure Static Web Apps I had to troubleshoot a strange issue: according to logs the managed API Azure Functions have been successfully deployed, but according to...
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Importing JSON with custom types in TypeScript
When you want to embed some static data in your TypeScript application, it's very convenient to store it as a JSON file and import it directly in a source code file. The compiler even implies static...
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A reason VS debugger might not hit breakpoints
There's an open source application plugin written in .NET I occasionally contribute to. As a regular part of my workflow, I sometimes have to attach the debugger to the application with the plugin...
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My Bitwarden backup script
Inspired by a great post in Bitwarden Community Forums and the author's bash script I decided to create my own PowerShell script for backing up the contents of my Bitwarden vault to my existing restic...
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Secure scripts with secrets in Windows
My restic backup script on Windows relied on having the restic password stored in an environment variable, making it and the restic command accessible to any process running with my credentials. Before...
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Logging into Teams without a license
In the company I work for, we're not using Teams internally and our users don't have a license for it. But some of our customers do use Teams and pay for it. They also add users from our Entra ID which...
View ArticleDisable Quarkus endpoints with a request filter
I needed a simple way to disable all endpoints in a Quarkus application based on a configuration property. A request filter was the right tool for the job, but some care had to be taken to not also...
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Switching between JDKs in Windows
IntelliJ IDEA does a great at managing multiple different JDK versions and using the right one for each project. However, a different solution is needed for the command line. I tried vfox, but I...
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