In my previous blog post I described some behaviour of C# record types which was unexpected to me, though entirely correct according to the documentation. This is a follow-up post to that one, so if you haven’t read that one yet, please do so – I won’t go[...]

Unexpected inconsistency in records The other day, I was trying to figure out a bug in my code, and it turned out to be a misunderstanding on my part as to how C# records work. It’s entirely possible that I’m the only one who expected them to work in the [...]

Postcodes After a pretty practical previous post about records and collections, this post is less likely to give anyone ideas about how they might tackle a problem in their own project, and doesn’t have any feature requests for Microsoft either. It’s an a[...]

Records and Collections This post is to some extent a grab-bag of points of friction I’ve encountered when using records and collections within the election site. Records recap This may end up being the most generally useful blog post in this series. Alth[...]

Introduction On Thursday (July 4th, 2024) the UK held a general election. There are many, many blog posts, newspaper articles, podcast episodes etc covering the politics of it, and the lessons that the various political parties may need to learn. I, on th[...]

Introduction I don’t know much about my blog readership, so let’s start off with two facts that you may not be aware of: I live in the UK. The UK has a general election on July 4th 2024. I’m politically engaged, and this is a particularly interesting elec[...]

Nearly three years ago, I posted about some fun I’d been having with VISCA using C#. As a reminder, VISCA is a camera control protocol, originally used over dedicated serial ports, but more recently over IP. Until this week, all the cameras I’d worked wit[...]

I’ve been keeping an eye on MAUI – the .NET Multi-platform App UI – for a while, but I’ve only recently actually given it a try. MAUI is essentially the evolution of Xamarin.Forms, embracing WinUI 3 and expanding from a mobile focus to desktop apps as wel[...]

In part 1, we ended up with a lot of test data specified in a text file, but without working tests – and with a conundrum as to how we’d test the .NET Core 3.1 data which requires additional information about the “hidden” AdjustmentRule.BaseUtcOffsetDelta[...]

As part of my church A/V system (At Your Service), I run a separate local web server to interact with the Zoom SDK. Initially this was because the Zoom SDK would only run in 32-bit processes and I needed a 64-bit process to handle the memory requirements [...]