We have some outstanding pull requests to the GenFu project. In today’s episode, we take some time to review those PRs and get them merged in.

https://github.com/MisterJames/GenFu

Hitting tab to suggest a parameter to your console app is made easy with dotnet-suggest and the console API tooling. Join James and Dave as they have a look at getting suggestions running on your dotnet apps.

Thanks to viewer OzBob for this suggestion!

A link to the Lemonade (DrinkStand) project:
https://github.com/MisterJames/LemonadeStand/

Here’s the info you need to install and enable suggestions in your shell:
https://github.com/dotnet/command-line-api/blob/main/docs/dotnet-suggest.md

One of the hosting options for SQL on Azure is to use an SQL VM. In this episode we introduce the concept.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/virtual-machines/windows/sql-server-on-azure-vm-iaas-what-is-overview

There are a ton of options for hosting your SQL server on Azure. Each is slightly different so how can you know which one is right? We have some answers for that!

Show links
Elastic Query ep 190 - https://youtu.be/IAx1nsh5-Ao

We don’t always need a framework like React/Vue/Angular to add interactive behaviour to our web pages. The browser provides some handy features that can make it easy to add simple interactions. One example is the template element. Let’s take a look at how to use it to dynamically inject elements into a page.

Template Element - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/template

When it comes to performance, it’s important to test our assumptions. In today’s episode, David walks us through his failed attempt to optimize uploading files to blob storage. In this case, fewer allocations doesn’t translate to better performance because there’s a lot more going on inside BlockBlockClient’s OpenWriteAsync() method than we thought.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/azure.storage.blobs.specialized.blockblobclient?view=azure-dotnet

Previous Episode
Performance of .NET JSON Serialization (#242) - https://youtu.be/w7ZfEVC76ho

Writing a new GitHub Actions workflow and want to save the embarrassment of a dozen failed builds displayed prominently on GitHub? Well ACT is here to save you. Run your GitHub actions locally using the Act CLI. Get that workflow in a working state before pushing your code to GitHub.

That’s right folks! Locally sourced, artisanal workflows!

Act - https://github.com/nektos/act

Compressing the body of requests isn’t done very commonly but if you’re sending a lot of data to the server from the front end it may be desirable to shrink it. In this episode we use pako (https://nodeca.github.io/pako/) to compress the body of a request reducing the size by 90%

Reference:

https://medium.com/axiomzenteam/put-your-http-requests-on-a-diet-3e1e52333014

Here we’re going to dive in to the classic ‘Lemonade Stand’ game and reimagine it as a whole new adventure in our cloud-based (and VR-based) world. Have ideas to share? What could be done to this app to make it waaaaaaaay over the top?

Check out the repo here: https://github.com/MisterJames/LemonadeStand

With the built in System.Text.Json serializer, serializing objects to and from JSON in .NET is FAST! However, the actual performance you get depends a bit on how you use it. Using DotNetBenchmark, we take a look at some different patterns that can be used for serializing an object to and from a file on disk.

Benchmarking in .NET: https://benchmarkdotnet.org/articles/overview.html
JSON Serialization: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/serialization/system-text-json-how-to?pivots=dotnet-6-0