Articles

Porting an existing Windows application to macOS

Porting an existing product across to a different platform is a hurdle that is becoming more and more common in the industry as we aim to maximise our potential user base and overall product accessibility.

Kyle Hawkes

Tue, 18 Jun 2024

It’s a Kind of Magic: Learning C# from First Principles

However long you’ve been coding there’s always more to learn. Four years into my development career I took a five day C# .NET Zero to Hero course, and it blew my mind. Now I encourage you to do the same.

Arianne Weekes

Tue, 21 May 2024

Why can't I find my registry key?

Working with 32 and 64-bit views in the Windows Registry can cause some headaches when trying to access registry keys. This article will outline how to find the keys you're looking for in C#.

Ben Archer

Wed, 21 Jul 2021

Making the transition to C#

Are you an experienced C/C++ programmer, with years spent using C++ 98 and little exposure to compilers post C++11? Do you feel bridging the gap to the latest C++ standard is becoming more and more difficult, yet more and more necessary? Do you wish you could write web applications but believe transitioning to C# would be too arduous, especially if you had to incur the expenses?

Richard Ngwa

Fri, 12 Mar 2021

An introduction to Blazor WebAssembly

Blazor WebAssembly is a new UI technology from Microsoft, officially released with .NET Core 3.1 and receiving updates in .NET 5. Blazor allows developers to create single-page applications (SPAs) using C# and .NET utilising a component-based architecture. Blazor WebAssembly is a client-side in-browser implementation of Blazor which includes a .NET runtime implemented in WebAssembly.

Alex Jones

Tue, 02 Feb 2021

Locking & async/await

You may have noticed that the C# compiler gets very upset if you try to use an `await` inside a `lock` statement. There is a reason for this but what if you need synchronization when calling async methods?