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#Couchbase, #devrel, writer, #reds, cruising, going from software to soft serve 🍦

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C# Advent 2025 Starting on December 1st, the C# Advent will reveal TWO new C# content entries every day up to and including December 25th.

Only SEVENTEEN spots left (out of 50) in the @csadvent.christmas.

Claim your day (Dec 1–25), publish something cool about C#, link to csadvent.christmas, and share with #csharp

Claim your spot now! πŸŽ„

03.11.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Data Modeling | Couchbase Docs

Yeah, a few things to check out:

Docs: docs.couchbase.com/tutorials/to...

Tutorial: developer.couchbase.com/tutorial-pha...

White paper: info.couchbase.com/rs/302-GJY-0...

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C# Advent 2025 Starting on December 1st, the C# Advent will reveal TWO new C# content entries every day up to and including December 25th.

There are 37 open spots still remaining on the C# Advent. Get your content in front of the #csharp community this December by signing up for a spot right now!

csadvent.christmas

#dotnet

10.10.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You're a much more interesting follow than me

12.03.2025 03:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I rarely use this place, but I keep accumulating followers. πŸ€”

11.03.2025 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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C# Advent 2024 Starting on December 1st, the C# Advent will reveal TWO new C# content entries every day up to and including December 25th.

The 2024 #csadvent is wrapping up in just a few days. Thank you to everyone who has participated, and those who have filled in last minute (record number of dropouts this year 😬).

πŸŽ„πŸŽ„πŸŽ„Check out csadvent.christmas to see all the entries so far!πŸŽ„πŸŽ„πŸŽ„

21.12.2024 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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C# Advent 2024 Starting on December 1st, the C# Advent will reveal TWO new C# content entries every day up to and including December 25th.

Quite a few dropouts from @csadvent.christmas this year. If you want to get in, go to csadvent.christmas and claim an open spot. #csadvent

18.12.2024 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Harnessing .NET and C# for Better SEO: How It Can Boost Your Website Rankings With the latest .NET and C#, it's now easier to apply technical SEO to a website, provide quality content, and analyze search traffic

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Harnessing .NET and C# for Better SEO: How It Can Boost Your Website Rankings

From Jonathan Danylko

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Meet TUnit: The New, Fast, and Extensible .NET Testing Framework This post introduces TUnit, a new testing framework for .NET 8 and later, and shows off its incredible speed and amazing features!

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Meet TUnit: The New, Fast, and Extensible .NET Testing Framework

From Sander ten Brinke

12.12.2024 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DI-Cluttering Your Code - Trailhead Technology Partners Reduce dependency injection (DI) clutter in your code with Minimal APIs, single-responsibility services, and primary constructors.

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DI-Cluttering Your Code

From John Waters (trailheadtechnology.com/author/john-...)

trailheadtechnology.com/di-clutterin...

02.12.2024 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bring Holiday Cheer to Friends & Family: Build a Cross-Platform Advent Calendar App for Every… The holiday season is upon us, and what better way to bring joy and excitement to your loved ones than with a custom advent calendar app…

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Bring Holiday Cheer to Friends & Family: Build a Cross-Platform Advent Calendar App for Every Device

From Agnès ZITTE (x.com/AgnesZitte)

medium.com/@agnes.zitte...

02.12.2024 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Transactional Emails: A long term view Sending emails has become essential for almost all modern applications and games. The most common...

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Transactional Emails: A long term view

From transmitly (github.com/transmitly/t...)

dev.to/jeremy_tly/t...

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The C# AcademyThe C# Academy - What's the Difference Between .NET, .NET Core ASP.NET, etc?

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What's the Difference Between .NET, .NET Core ASP.NET, etc?

From Pablo Aguirre de Souza (www.linkedin.com/in/pablo-agu...)

www.thecsharpacademy.com/article/3000...

01.12.2024 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Want to be a substitute? Sometimes people have to drop out, sign up now to be a replacement.

We are at 100%!

You can sign up as a substitute, in case somebody needs to bail - www.csadvent.christmas/substitute

See you on December 1st!

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Steamboat Willie With the landmark cartoon Steamboat Willie, Walt Disney showed his genius by setting up two core elements of the Mickey Mouse character that have lasted to this day: he’s always on a steamboat, and

He's in the public domain so he's now on RiffTrax! Steamboat Willie is now available: www.rifftrax.com/steamboat-wi...

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Getting started with the Azure Content Safety API. This article was published as part of the C# Advent 2023, you can check out the rest of the articles...

Second #csadvent today is from @thesoccerdev.bsky.social: dev.to/drkclw/getti... - Getting started with the Azure Content Safety API.

23.12.2023 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
C# Advent Calendar 2023 - Stocking Stuffer
In this bonus video I break down the major platforms you can use for building a mobile app in .NET. IN 2023 it's a great time to be a .NET developer so many... C# Advent Calendar 2023 - Stocking Stuffer

First #csadvent entry today is ANOTHER entry from Aaron LaBeau, filling in at the last second with a "stocking stuffer" video: Mobile Platform Options - www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8VL... #csharp

23.12.2023 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
C# Advent Calendar 2023 - State of .NET on the Mac Revisited
With Visual Studio for Mac sunset in 2024, it's time to revisit what is means to be .NET Developer on a Mac in 2024 and what tools are out there, and more im... C# Advent Calendar 2023 - State of .NET on the Mac Revisited

Second #csadvent entry for today is a video from Aaron LaBeau: "State of .NET on the Mac (Revisited)" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBnQ...

22.12.2023 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Is Blazor the Future of Everything Web? Learn how .NET 8 has changed Blazor’s position in the market with features that have modernized and future-proofed the framework for years to come.

First #csadvent entry today is a huge, comprehensive entry from C# Advent veteran @edcharbeneau.bsky.social - "Is Blazor the Future of Everything Web?" www.telerik.com/blogs/is-bla... #csharp

22.12.2023 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Top 6 Performance Tips when dealing with strings in C# 12 and .NET 8 Small changes sometimes make a huge difference. Learn these 6 tips to improve the performance of your application just by handling strings correctly.

Second #csadvent entry today is from Davide Bellone: "Top 6 Performance Tips when dealing with strings in #csharp 12 and #dotNET 8" - www.code4it.dev/blog/top-6-s...

21.12.2023 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
PostgreSQL range types and Entity Framework Core | Giorgi Dalakishvili | Personal Website In this blog post I explore PostgreSQL range types and how you can use them from Entity Framework Core.

First #csadvent post today is from @GioDalakishvili: "PostgreSQL range types and #EFCore" - www.giorgi.dev/database/pos... #csharp

21.12.2023 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
2 code a .NET tool - C# Advent Calendar 2023
Day 20 of the C# Advent Calendar 2023: www.csadvent.christmasDuring season 2023 of the #2codeOrNot2code live stream, Eva and Stefan have built a .NET tool to... 2 code a .NET tool - C# Advent Calendar 2023

The second #csadvent entry, was a live stream from FlashOWare, now available as a recording. I believe this was the first ever live stream to be part of the #CSharp Advent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XYx...

20.12.2023 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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morelinq.ipynb GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

First #csadvent entry today is from Atif Aziz : "MoreLINQ in Action" - gist.github.com/atifaziz/836...

20.12.2023 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The #csadvent merch store will only be open for a little while longer. You can get a mug, stickers, and an ornament. All proceeds will be donated to Shriners Children's.

AND, you can get 15% off, now through the end of #csharp Advent: use code CSADVENT15. my-store-f02ae4.creator-spring.com

19.12.2023 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Alexandre NΓ©dΓ©lec - Playing with the .NET 8 Web API template

First #csadvent entry of the day is from @techwatching.bsky.social - "Playing with the #dotNET 8 Web API template": www.techwatching.dev/posts/playin... #csharp

19.12.2023 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Functional Programming With C# - Scan and FindIndex A simple technique to

Second #csadvent entry from today is from
Simon Painter: "Functional Programming with #csharp - Scan and IndexOf" - www.thecodepainter.co.uk/blog/2023121...

18.12.2023 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Discriminated Unions in C# This blog post is a very gentle introduction to how you can simulate Discriminated Unions today in C# whilst you wait for them to be added to the C# Language. We'll look at one of the less popular rea...

First #csadvent post today is from
Ian Russell: "Discriminated Unions in #csharp" - ijrussell.github.io/posts/csharp...

18.12.2023 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
β€œAll Purpose Object Updater” - HonestIllusion.Com

Second #csadvent entry today is from James Curran: All Purpose Object Updater - honestillusion.com/blog/2023/12... #csharp

15.12.2023 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bulk Text Analytics with Azure AI Language Azure AI Language offers many text analytics capabilities, but their newer APIs make it possible to perform multiple natural language processing (NLP) tasks on many documents using one API call.

First #csadvent post today is from @integerman.bsky.social (his SECOND post!) - "Bulk Text Analytics with Azure AI Language": accessibleai.dev/post/azureai... #csharp

15.12.2023 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spatial Charts POC - Data Visualisation in Mixed Reality Extended Reality (XR) and immersive experiences will play an increasingly important part of our lives and society. Here is just one use case.

First #csadvent entry today is from Lee Englestone : "Spatial Charts POC - Data Visualisation in Mixed Reality" - www.linkedin.com/pulse/spatia...

#csharp

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