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Should I be Checking Injected Dependencies for Null?

20 Dec 2020 .NET Core ASP.NET Core Configuration Dependency Injection

In this post, I present my Top 5 scenarios of null injections from the .NET Dependency Injection container and use these to justify adding guard clauses to your C# constructors in consuming classes.

Understanding Disposables In .NET Dependency Injection - Part 3

17 Nov 2020 ASP.NET Core Clean Code Dependency Injection Design Patterns .NET Core IDisposable

Following on from Parts 1 and 2, in this final part of the series, I move on to dealing with types that you do not have source control for and therefore cannot change directly to hide the Dispose method using the techniques I have described in the previous posts.

Understanding Disposables In .NET Dependency Injection - Part 2

17 Nov 2020 ASP.NET Core Clean Code Dependency Injection Design Patterns .NET Core IDisposable

Following on from Part 1 where I provide an overview of hiding the Dispose method from consumers of the Dependency Injection container, in this part, I move on to dealing with objects that are created outside, but registered with the DI container.

Understanding Disposables In .NET Dependency Injection - Part 1

17 Nov 2020 ASP.NET Core Clean Code Dependency Injection Design Patterns .NET Core IDisposable

In this post I will be discussing the traps that can catch you out by potentially creating memory leaks when registering types that implement the IDisposable interface as services with the out-of-the-box .NET Dependency Injection container.

C# 9 Record Factories

20 Oct 2020 C# 9 Clean Code Design Patterns

In this post, I walk through using the Factory Pattern to create instances of C# 9 records where instances can be created using a combination of input from the IoC container, caller input and computed values derived from these.

Merging Multiple Git Repositories Into A Mono-Repo with PowerShell (Part 2)

11 Oct 2020 Dev Ops Git Monorepo

Following on from Part 1 where I give the background as to the reasons that I wanted to move to a single Git repository (also known as a mono-repo), this post provides a walk-through of the PowerShell script that I created to do the job.