Learn how to use Always Encrypted, a feature designed by Microsoft to protect sensitive data on database level. This encryption tool is available on SQL server 2016 or later as well as Azure SQL Datab...

With EntityFrameworkCore.EncryptColumn package, you can store your sensitive data in encrypted form in your database. To use this package, simply install it to your project, specify your encryption ke...

The upcoming release of .NET 7 will include aggressive garbage collection for Kubernetes. This will help manage resources and improve performance for applications running on Kubernetes clusters. The f...

Microsoft introduced GCCollectionMode.Aggressive in .NET 7 which helps free up memory in idle applications without shutting them down completely. This feature was introduced to address the issue of in...

As part of .NET 7, developers now have the ability to tag strings using the StringSyntax attribute. These tags inform tools such as Visual Studio as to the nature of the string. Since StringSyntax is ...

Before C# 11 and .NET 7, there was no way to create an interface that accommodated static Parse function. The introduction of Static Abstract Methods in interfaces feature now makes it possible. The I...

Recently, JetBrains launched the Public Preview for Fleet - a new distributed polyglot editor and IDE which supports multiple programming languages. This JSON structure focuses on C# support in Fleet,...

Today, AWS announced the general availability of tooling support to build and deploy native AOT compiled .NET 7 applications on AWS Lambda. Native AOT allows .NET applications to be pre-compiled to a ...

LinqGen is a library that optimizes Linq queries using source generation of user code. It aims to create allocation-free, specialized Linq queries per your type. The library can be installed from NuGe...

This post outlines the steps to quickly deploy three simple .NET 6 Lambda functions during .NET Enterprise Developer Day and DeveloperWeek Europe. The blog post covers three demos - ASP.NET Core Web A...

Learn how to use the Amazon.Lambda.Annotations library for easier dependency injection (DI) with .NET AWS Lambda functions. This post will show you how to configure both scoped services and singleton ...

The Amazon.Lambda.Annotations library makes dependency injection for .NET AWS Lambda functions easier. In this post, learn how to use DI with a function that is invoked directly and configure both sco...

The .NET 6 runtime for AWS Lambda is here! With it comes many new features such as an improved ILambdaLogger, support for C# 10, top-level statements and many more. But one new cool feature, originall...

The .NET 7 release brings exciting improvements to the Orleans toolchain, including over 150% performance improvements in some areas. The addition of the Orleans team to the broader .NET team means ex...

C# 11 has been released and brings new features while continuing to advance themes from previous releases. Community participation was key to developing this version of C#. Some of the new features in...

The .NET team presented a number of live video streams discussing the features for the next release of Blazor and .NET7. The hot reload support for Blazor WebAssembly has significantly improved in pre...

Learn how to simplify concurrent processing and pipelining of data using channels, a built-in feature of .NET 6. With channels, you can parallelize API calls and post-processing as a stream which enha...

Learn how to use AWS Lambda with .NET 6 for serverless computing, and deploy the serverless function to AWS. This article covers the use cases of AWS Lambda, installing the extensions and CLI template...

At Don’t Panic Labs, we have been using Azure Dev Ops more than GitHub during the last few years. Periodically, I like to dive into other technologies and see where they are at. This led me to deploy ...

HeadlessChromium.Puppeteer.Lambda.Dotnet is a Nuget Package that provides everything needed to run PuppeteerSharp in AWS Lambda with Chromium. The project uses the chromium binary extracted from Spart...