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Launching Multiple Projects in JetBrains Rider

This sounds trivial, and it is.  But if you have a Visual Studio background and are trying out JetBrains Rider for the first time, this may not be apparent how to setup launching multiple projects in JetBrains Rider. This entire week I’ve almost exclusively used Rider.  I’ve used some of the early EAP’s, but not on an actual project. One of the first roadblocks I hit was trying to figure out how to launch multiple projects from my solution. Thankfully, it didn’t take me too long to figure out. However, I then had a colleague ask me the very next day… Read More »Launching Multiple Projects in JetBrains Rider

Lazy Async

I’ve been moving some data access code to to use Lazy<T> whenever I want to defer actually fetching the data until it’s first needed.  What I’ve always found interesting is there is no Lazy Async. In the exact use case it’s when an application loads, there is some static data loaded from a database.  This data is the cached for later use. However, in many situations it’s not actually needed until much later if at all.  Why take the performance hit of fetching the data on app startup if that data is often times not needed? That’s the whole purpose… Read More »Lazy Async

Specify the C# Version to use in your Projects

I always wondered how you could specify the C# version in your project.  One of the cool new features in C# 7.1 that I’ve been looking forward to is the “Async Main“. But to be honest, I had no idea how, even when C# 7.1 is released, how I would be able to start use it and its new features. A few days ago I stumbled upon this an issue in the Microsoft Docs repo. The C# build system now includes a node inside a csproj file that controls which version of C# the compiler should follow. Visual Studio With… Read More »Specify the C# Version to use in your Projects