Hosting Extensions – Single Instance.
Sometimes I need to prevent multiple instances of an application from running at the same time. Before .NET came along, I just dropped the code for that into the application…
DataProtector
I've migrated quite a bit of my .NET code to non-Windows platforms, this past year. As I've done so, I've re-discovered the fact that DPAPI, which is what I've traditionally…
Business Extensions
Since I write so many NUGET packages, I also tend to write more than a few extension methods containing startup / construction logic. Each library typically has at least two…
Singletons
The singleton pattern is probably one of the most overused design approaches of all times. Still, there are times when it actually makes sense to take that approach. Because of…
.NET Assembly Loader
Back in the day, I remember creating new AppDomain instances to control the scope of loaded assemblies. If I wanted to load some assemblies, then release them, that was the…
Code Map Tool
Not too long ago I wrote a simple .NET Core WPF application to read references from a .NET assembly and then graph those relationships visually, using the Syncfusion diagram control…
List Extensions
There are times when I need to filter lists using a white list / black list style approach. For that purpose, I wrote two extensions methods that I'll cover in…
Disposable Pattern
An unofficial pattern that Microsoft follows, for disposing of objects, is one where a class implements the IDisposable interface, along with it's public Dispose method, and then adds a protected…
Finding Extensions
Several years ago I was spelunking through the Entity Framework code and came across the implementation for the Include extension method. That method allows a query for a data context…
Email Service
Not long ago I wrote about a hosted alert handler I sometimes use. That handler sends emails for error alerts. It does that through the use of an email service…