If you are anything like me, you are not a fan of writing unit tests, but appreciate the gift they give when written properly. See the...

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I've been asked a few times if a new developer should focus on learning .NET MVC or .NET Core. The simple answer is: both. .NET Core is a framework, whereas MVC is a code architecture pattern. You can create a project / solution in Core and use the MVC pattern for your code. However, if you choose to begin a project with a base MVC project file, you cannot use the Core framework for it. MVC is Model View Controller pattern. A great resource to learn more from is Microso

Sometime in the last few iterations (years, probably .. I find things very late in the game) of the Visual Studio IDE, Microsoft introduced a refactoring tool. As much as I love searching StackOverflow for hours to find the answer to the super obscure coding issue I'm having, this refactoring tool saves me sooooooooo much time and irritation!! Whomever built this deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for helping developers refrain from killing people while raging on StackOverflow

Help on installing Python on a Windows machine

An implementation of the universally unique ID (see UUID) that is computed by Windows and Windows applications.

Datetimes. They can be the hero or your worst enemy. This error is the bane of my existence as a programmer. This is worse than “Hi there! We just wanted to show an error for no reason. Restart Visual Studio. Love, Microsoft” ….. Every time this happens, I forget the fix so now it becomes a post I can Google and maybe save some troubleshooting time too. If you are like I am, you do a little ADO between your C# code and SQL data. I’m very good at not casting and converting

LINQ started as a simple way to query SQL data through code

Microsoft - An interpolated string is a string literal that might contain interpolation expressions.