c# - Stefán J. Sigurðarson

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A collection of 5 posts

Fast ManualResetEventSlim checks when waiting is rarely needed

I was looking at some code optimizations for the RabbitMQ .NET client and noticed that in one place on the hot path the Wait() method was being called on a ManualResetEventSlim which was already set most of the time, and thought that might be overkill.

Real world example of reducing allocations using Span<T> and Memory<T>

I have been planning to write this post for a few months now but always seem to have found something new to add. This all started when I decided to look at the RabbitMQ .NET Client source code [https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-dotnet-client] to see if I could make improvements

C# 8 - Null coalescing/compound assignment

There are a lot of cool new features in C# 8 and one of my favorites is the new Null coalescing assignment operator.

Mocking JWT tokens in ASP.NET Core integration tests

As we've been migrating services over to .NET Core we needed to mock JWT tokens in ASP.NET Core integration tests. I finally found a way that worked.

extension methods

Using extension methods to keep things DRY - Part 1

I'm a big fan of DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself). If you find yourself writing the same code again and again, you should see if you can extract that code out to a method to prevent you from repeating the same code often. A pet peeve of mine is your typical