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Most developers agree that naming things is one of the hardest parts of our job.

Disclosure: NDepend provided a complimentary 1-year license for me to test the software featured in this article.

Properties in C# are a powerful tool for encapsulating data inside a class.

The .NET runtime comes with efficient resource management, helping you build robust applications.

Modern web applications deal with massive amounts of complex data, and relational databases are a popular choice for keeping everything organized.

What's New in C# 14 Series What's New in C# 14: User-Defined Compound Assignments What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments If you've ever developed in C#, you've likely encountered a snippet like the one below: if (config?.

What's New in C# 14 Series What's New in C# 14: User-Defined Compound Assignments What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments .NET 10 is scheduled to be released later this year and, with it, comes the next iteration of C#.

My wife and I use YNAB (You Need A Budget) to manage our envelope-based budget.

We live in a naturally unpredictable world.

You've likely bumped into the pesky NullReferenceException if you've developed anything in C#.

Object mapping is critical in several software design patterns.

Have you ever needed to extend a class provided by a third-party library?

I wrote a PowerShell script the other day and, while doing so, discovered an interesting fact about string comparison in PowerShell that is quite contrary to .NET (and thus unfamiliar to me): string comparisons are case-insensitive by default.

In the first post of this series, we used a low-level, first-principles approach to log messages to AWS CloudWatch.

In the previous post in this series, we went through a low-level demonstration of logging to AWS CloudWatch to gain an understanding of how it all works.