This post gives an overview of .NET templates, which are starter structures for solutions, projects, or individual files. As an example, the default .NET template for a new solution includes only the solution file. It can be customised to include additional items, such as a .gitignore file and a README.
This post examines how to import data into Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB while staying within the free throughput limit of 1000 Request Units per second. It also showcases the use of Bicep templates, as well as the Bogus and ShellProgressBar C# libraries. The source code is available on GitHub
This blog post documents a process of taking the app built in the Simple ToDo-List tutorial and slightly modifying it. The codebase is here, the pull request with all changes described in this post is here Get Ready The project codebase lives in a GitHub repository, which requires a name.
This post introduces Binary Indexed Trees (BITs), discusses their applications to LeetCode problems, and provides code samples in C#. Binary Background BITs rely on the binary (base 2) representation of numbers. Consider, for example, x = 22. It can be represented as a sum of powers of 2: x = 1*16
This post explores XML serialisation in C# using the XmlSerializer class and different ways to represent arithmetic expressions in XML. The arithmetic expressions and the calculator project are introduced in this post. Another post covers the JSON serialisation of these expressions. This post builds on that foundation and focuses on
This post outlines how to create, package, install, and later update a global .NET CLI tool. The example tool is called Guider. It generates GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifiers) and copies the generated GUID to the clipboard. The project is available on GitHub at https://github.com/yamesant/guider The tool
This blog post showcases a process of Yamesant developing a small Products Search project. The project exposes a single API endpoint to find products in a MongoDB collection. The collection is small (on the order of thousands of documents) and read-only. There is no simpler starting point. The search request
This blog post documents Yamesant's first experience with a NoCode tool: Xano. It presents a perspective of someone who has a technical background but has never used a NoCode tool before. NoCode NoCode is an approach to developing software through a visual interface instead of using a programming
Another post on Try and Trash here introduces the Morning Wisher project that uses Azure Functions and Azure Communication Services to send daily emails with good morning wishes. That post is divided into two parts: setting up Azure resources and implementing the code. The way Azure resources are set up
This blog post walks through setting up a .NET 8 minimal API project, using pomos as an example target resource. "Pomos" here refer to blocks of time structured according to the Pomodoro time management technique. The Pomo Assistant project is available on GitHub here, and the list of
The previous blog post has introduced a calculator engine project. This post extends it to convert arithmetic expressions to and from JSON. For example, an expression built like this: Expression.CreateMultiValued([3, 3], new Addition()) could be represented in JSON as: { "Operation": "Addition", "Subexpressions"
This guide outlines the process of building a static website using HTML. It demonstrates basic HTML features and the static website hosting option on Azure storage, including HTTPS and custom domain name configuration. The project is inspired by this Odin assignment which is the first among many on The Odin