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Comparing WebApplicationBuilder to the Generic Host
Exploring .NET 6 - Part 2
In this post I take a first look at the new WebApplication and WebApplicationBuilder types in .NET 6, and compare them to the Generic Host from .NET 5.…
Looking inside ConfigurationManager in .NET 6
Exploring .NET 6 - Part 1
In this post I take a look at the ConfigurationManager class new in .NET 6, explore why it was added, and look at the scenarios it addresses.…
ValueStringBuilder: a stack-based string-builder
A deep dive on StringBuilder - Part 6
In this post I discuss the ValueStringBuilder type, used internally in .NET as a zero/low-allocation alternative to StringBuilder…
Reducing allocations by caching with StringBuilderCache
A deep dive on StringBuilder - Part 5
In this post I look at the internal StringBuilderCache type, benchmark it against a StringBuilder, and walk through the code to show how it works.…
Inserting and removing characters
A deep dive on StringBuilder - Part 4
In this post we look at the Insert() and Remove() functions, which can involve tricky manipulations of chunks in the middle of the linked list…
Converting chunks to a string with ToString()
A deep dive on StringBuilder - Part 3
In this post I look at StringBuilder.ToString(), show how multiple chunk arrays are converted to a string, and compare it to .NET Framework's approach.…
