Have you ever needed to extend a class provided by a third-party library? Perhaps you want to add additional functionality or simplify a particular set of methods in the library.

I wrote a PowerShell script the other day and, while doing so, discovered an interesting fact about string comparison in PowerShell that is quite contrary to .NET (and thus unfamiliar for me): string comparisons are case-insensitive by default.

In the first post of this series, we used a low-level, first-principles approach to log messages to AWS CloudWatch. Now that we understand how the logging works under the hood, we are now going to see how we

In the previous post in this series, we went through a low-level demonstration of logging to AWS CloudWatch to gain an understanding of how it all works. Now that we know how it works, we can make use

AWS CloudWatch is a management tool in AWS that allows us to monitor resources in AWS and hosted elsewhere. One form of monitoring that AWS CloudWatch offers is ingesting logs from different services so that they can be

I recently worked on some of our backend .NET Core services. While implementing some functions, I found myself writing repetitive code to log function calls. These logs would allow us to trace the execution of a function if

I recently had to solve the problem of converting strings into enums in C#. There are a few different solutions you can implement depending on your requirements. This article aims to show you some of these solutions and when to use each one.

A while back I wrote an article detailing how to create custom configuration sections in the App.config file in .NET. This is by far the most...