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Home » about About TL;DR Name: Maarten Balliauw Age: DateTime.UtcNow.Year - 1983 Gender: male Occupation: Frequent speaker at various events worldwide Head of Customer Success at Duende Software Founder and owner of SpeakerTravel Former Head of Developer Advocacy at JetBrains Former founder and…
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Hosting the .NET Aspire Dashboard as a Standalone Container in Azure Web Apps
Sometimes you just want a simple way to look at your traces, metrics, and logs without setting up a full observability stack. Just a UI where you can see what your applications are doing, without having to setup Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger,
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Keyed Services (Named registrations) in .NET Service Provider
You have an IMessageSender interface, with two implementations: EmailMessageSender and SmsMessageSender. You register both, and now the question is which one gets injected into your OrderConfirmationService constructor. The answer, unhelpfully, is whichev
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So, I wrote a fiction book. Meet "The Side Project".
For as long as I can remember, I've been writing non-fiction. Blog posts, documentation, technical guides, a couple of books about NuGet, and ASP.NET MVC 1.0 which still sells one copy per quarter, amazingly. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I have alway
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TimeProvider and the End of Untestable DateTime.Now
DateTime.Now is one of those calls that looks harmless until you try to write a test around it. It's a static property that reads the system clock, and there's no way to control what it returns without wrapping it in something injectable. I have wrapped i
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Discriminated unions in C# and .NET 11 (for real this time)
Back in 2023, I wrote about discriminated unions in C# and how C# developers had to work around the lack of language support using things like ASP.NET Core's Results type or the OneOf NuGet package. Real C# language support (csharplang issue #113) had bee
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