Oren certainly makes a unique impression. Having listened to a lot of CEO interviews in countless podcast episodes, I never encountered another CEO more knowledgeable about the intricacies of C# than Oren. As we sidetracked into his many adventures in developing a database, Oren’s talked about .NET garbage collection, ...

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After going through a bunch of code interviews, here's some things I learned from coding problems that I never use in my day-to-day.

In this article, you'll see how frameworks like Entity Framework and MongoDB C# driver use expressions trees to make that conversion. And you'll see how to use expression trees yourself to build dynamic queries. Those are queries that you aren't able to create at compile time because you'll know how the query should look like only at runtime.

In this article, we'll talk about what exactly is DLL Hell, how these kinds of problems can occur, and the best ways to dealing with them.

We are constantly dealing with libraries and NuGet packages. These libraries depend on other popular libraries and there are a lot of shared dependencies. With a large enough web of dependencies, you'll eventually get into conflicts or hard situations. The best way to deal with such issues is to understand how the mechanism works internally.

Is C# slower than C++? That's a pretty big question. As a junior developer, I was sure that the answer is "Yes, definitely". Now that I'm more experienced, I know that this question is not obvious and even quite complicated.

There are many ways to communicate between a C# client and a C# server. Some are robust, others not so much. Some are very fast, others aren't. It's important to know the different options so you can decide what's best for you.

.NET Core 3 was recently released and brought with it a bunch of innovations, including a brand new JSON (de)serializer System.Text.Json. We're going to compare this serializer with Newtonsoft.Json and other major .NET serializers. Check out this epic performance battle.