Had my first experience with setting up a GraphQL API in ASP.NET Core 3.1 today using GraphQL-DotNet [https://github.com/graphql-dotnet]. Using their examples [https://github.com/graphql-dotnet/examples] as inspiration to get started you'll find that there's nothing in the .NET Core sample r…
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Time for a quick look at UTF-8 encoding and byte order marker (BOM). Lets jump right into some code. You are probably going to nail this as you most likely will be alert now, given the title and all, but would you have expected this test to pass? [Fact] public void Utf8Strings() { var initial =…
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Lately I've spent some time overhauling MyNatsClient [https://github.com/danielwertheim/mynatsclient] (my open source .NET client for NATS [https://nats.io/]). I've added support for TLS1.2 and fixed a few bugs but mostly been focusing on performance. And in doing so, I've managed to in…
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I have been coding F# for a while now, and I've managed to stay away from throwing custom exception so chances are I'm doing something wrong now as I'm looking into throwing one, but I thought I would share it, as it also shows how you can accomplish similar constructs as failwithf to al…
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Lets assume we are designing a type that defines some lower and upper bounds. To keep this post simple, we define one rule: "You shall not be able to create an instance of it, with a lower bound exceeding the upper bound." Records & factory functions For this post we are OK with the…
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