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Counting characters may seems trivial. You can just use the string.Length property, can't you? Unfortunately, this is not that trivial. If you remember my previous post about comparing strings, you know that strings can be very tricky 😃 Let's use the character 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦. The "Family: Man, Woman, Girl, Boy" emoji is a sequence of the 👨 Man, 👩 Woman, 👧 Girl and 👦 Boy emojis. These are combined using…

I explain how you can optimise the performance of HttpClient when handling the HttpResponseMessage with HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead.

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Over the past year I’ve moved from working mainly in Java, to working mainly in C#. To be honest, Java and C# have more in common than not, but one of the major differences is async/await. It’s a really powerful tool if used correctly, but also a very quick way to shoot yourself in the foot. Asynchronous programming looks very similar to synchronous programming. However, there are some core concepts which need to be understood in order to form a proper mental model when converting between synchronous and asynchronous programming patterns.

In this article, we're going to be learning about a whole host of different tips and tricks related to C# String and Formatting.

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Coca-Cola is a well-known soft drink manufacturing company which has been rapidly adopting artificial intelligence. This article explains how they do it.

The ultimate tutorial for NLog. Learn about everything from logging and structured log messages to layout renderers and configuration of common targets.