Sudhanshu Mishra

Awesome libraries and tools for .NET (Core and Full framework)

A list of awesome libraries and tools for .NET (Core and Full framework)

Posted on Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Making sense of ASP.NET Core Metapackage Versioning

Understaning how TFM (Target Framework Moniker) and the Microsoft.AspNetCore.App metapackage versioning work together

Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Nuget CLI (Command Line Interface) - tips, tricks and gotchas (Mac and Windows)

Nuget CLI can be a powerful ally - once you get past little gotchas. This post documents my adventures and learnings whilst trying to leverage the CLI across Mac and Windows

Posted on Sunday, December 2, 2018

Setting up environment variables on Mac

How to setup environment variables on Mac OSX

Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2018

Setting up Azure CLI on mac

How to setup environment variables on Mac OSX

Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2018

A set of coding and code review guidelines inspired by "The Zen of Python"

I recently started learning Python, and came across what the Python community calls "The Zen of Python". Somehow, I felt that it can form the basis of what could be simple to follow coding and code review guidelines. This post is my attempt to extract a set of guidelines out of "The Zen"

Posted on Saturday, January 6, 2018

My take on the net-neutrality debate

The topic of net neutrality has been in the news again following a decision by US agency FCC (Federal Communications Commission) to overturn its ruling from 2015. This has ramifications for all of us. I explain what net neutrality is (at least what I understand of it) and why it matters.

Posted on Saturday, December 30, 2017

Notes from Jeff Patton's talk - Requirements, Product Ownership and Agile Development

A transcript and my notes from Jeff Patton's talk on Requirements, Product Ownership and other misunderstood concepts in Agile Development

Posted on Sunday, October 29, 2017

Fix branch hierarchies in git

You use git, good on ya! You branched off of a branch that should've been left alone. How do you change the "parent" of the new branch?!

Posted on Monday, September 18, 2017

Targeting .NET 4.7 from Visual Studio 2017

Developer tools have a way of stumping you in the most unexpected of ways. This post analyses and then illustrates how to get VS 2017 list .NET 4.7 as a target framework for your projects, minus the pain.

Posted on Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Taming bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10 Creators Update!

For the uninitiated, you can now run a real bash prompt on Windows 10 Anniversary Update or higher. Let's try to make sense of what's going on with that!

Posted on Friday, July 7, 2017

C# 7 Says Hello World!

My favourite features from the newly minted 7th edition of my favourite programming language C#!

Posted on Monday, October 10, 2016

Learn Open Source (or anything!)

Free self-taught Computer Science for everyone (and pointers to learn stuff quickly)

Posted on Monday, September 26, 2016

C# 6.0 Features Not Working with MVC 5 / Visual Studio 2015 / Razor

How I got out of the dreaded yellow screen of death in an MVC5 project

Posted on Tuesday, August 23, 2016

IIS Express 500.19 Cannot read configuration file - because it's looking at the wrong path!

Getting out of a vicious and unnerving IIS express issue

Posted on Tuesday, August 23, 2016

WCF service startup error "This collection already contains an address with scheme http"

Fixing WCF Deployment issues on shared hosting

Posted on Sunday, July 31, 2016

Avoiding an Identity Crisis (in your apps)

In your code, an entity requires a unique ID - A Customer ID, Order ID, Message ID. SQL Identity columns do not cut it for you and the default GUID class isn't suitable either. There's hope though!

Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2016

IDisposable Pattern - A refresher on the need and correct implementation

One may wonder why another post on IDisposable? After all, how difficult could an implementation of an interface that has only one void parameter-less method be? Well, read on to find out.

Posted on Thursday, March 5, 2015

Programmer Interviews and the law of “Leaky Abstractions”

My thoughts after conducting 20 odd technical interviews, trying to correlate two seemingly divergent aspects of the tech life.

Posted on Monday, March 2, 2015

Double Check Locking in C# - End of life?

After having a discussion with a colleague, I was researching for the correct way to implement double-check locking in C# and .NET 4.5. Turns out a lot of water has flown under the bridge and things have changed quite a bit. I'll try to document my findings here.

Posted on Friday, February 13, 2015

NUnit Assertions - IsAssignableFrom and IsInstanceOf

Tiny goodies from my experiences with NUnit

Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2015

Logging Frameworks for .NET

A monologue about the available options when it comes to logging frameworks for .NET applications

Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2015

ASP.NET Web API - Content Negotiation, Content-Type, Accept and Accept-Charset in a nutshell

My take on content negotiation, REST, HTTP and how it all comes together in ASP.NET Web API

Posted on Wednesday, February 4, 2015

First Chance exceptions - What are the chances?

Ever noticed your Visual Studio output windows show pesky First Chance exception messages? Read on to find out what they are.

Posted on Tuesday, February 3, 2015