Joydip Kanjilal

There has been a lot of hype on Microservices over the past few years. Microservices is an architectural approach or an architectural style, to be precise, towards building flexible, extensible, independently deployable services. In Microservices, you have a single application as a suite of small independently deployable services with each of these services running and […]

C# has long been one of the most popular languages for developing Web and Windows applications alike. C# 7 comes with a lot of new features and enhancements, with special focus on simplification of code, easier consumption of data, and improved performance. Pattern matching is one of the great new features introduced in C# 7. […]

Microsoft has just released another edition of its flagship development platform—Visual Studio 2017. Unit testing is the process of testing units of your code to ensure that they comply with the acceptance criteria. It is a process that helps you to reduce or eliminate bugs earlier in the software development life cycle. Live Unit Testing […]

This article discusses what virtual methods are, why constructors cannot be virtual and why virtual destructors are needed and the pitfalls if destructors are not defined virtual in some scenarios. The concepts are discussed in a lucid language with plenty of code examples to illustrate the concepts. A constructor is a method that has the […]

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a COM based technology used to get system-related information. Such information may include hardware resources like, the motherboard, memory, disk, etc. You can use WMI to communicate with the Windows OS, the hardware devices, running processes, COM+ components, etc. In this article we will discuss the basics of WMI and […]

Leverage the power of ORM tools to design data access layers that are independent of the underlying database Object Relational Mappers (ORMs) are tools that have evolved with the view to increase development productivity, provide database independence, and also to abstract calls to the underlying database. Object Relational Mapper (ORM) tools help you to write […]

Take advantage of MVC, MVP and MVVM Design Patterns to build applications that are easier to test and maintain Design patterns can be used to solve complex design problems in your application. However, your design should be compact and it should not drive your business requirements. Rather, you should choose the right design pattern depending […]