.NET Tom Fischer in .NET Razor Redux Microsoft has introduced a new version of Razor with ASP.NET Core 2. Tom Fischer explains why it’s worth taking another... 22 May 2018 11 min read
.NET Tom Fischer in .NET Sharing is Caring: Using Memory Mapped Files in .NET Sharing and reusing large objects between components and services can save time and computing resources. Tom Fischer explains how to... 17 April 2018 15 min read
.NET Tom Fischer in .NET The Care and Feeding of Tuples in C# Tuples have many uses in languages like F# and Python; they underlie relational theory. The .NET support for tuples seems... 23 August 2017 10 min read
.NET Tom Fischer in .NET Using AWS’s Simple Workflow Service (SWF) with C# Amazon's Simple Workflow Service (SWF) in AWS provides a model of workflow that is simple to understand but is it... 12 January 2017 27 min read
.NET Tom Fischer in .NET Going Interactive with C# For some time now, C# programmers have gazed enviously at the interactive capabilities of F#, Python and PowerShell. For rapid... 26 August 2016 13 min read
Tom Fischer Safe(r) Custom User-Authentication If you are still storing passwords with MD5 hashing you're doing it wrong. The .NET platform provides a Cryptography library... 12 June 2015 16 min read
Tom Fischer Rethinking the Practicalities of Recursion We all love recursion right up to the point of actually using it in production code. Why? Recursion can illustrate... 14 November 2014 11 min read
Tom Fischer Fluent Code in C# In LINQ, the 'fluent' method syntax flows logically and intuitively, and allows them to be combined simply, because each method... 11 July 2013 14 min read
Tom Fischer Beginning Distributed Version Control with Mercurial The move from client-server version ontrol systems (VCS) to distributed version control systems can be bewildering. Tom uses his experience... 02 April 2013 14 min read
Tom Fischer View-Models with Flags in WPF Enums in .NET are strongly-typed constants that allow you to share a multi-valued property across applications. When used in a... 29 October 2012 9 min read
Tom Fischer Unit Testing Myths and Practices We all understand the value of Unit Testing, but how come so few organisations maintain unit tests for their in-house... 05 January 2012 9 min read