Table of contents for May/Jun 2024 in CODE Magazine

EDITORIAL I believe they are what are called key frames. In animation, the artists draw key frames, which represent different transitions in the animation and are then passed onto other artists who fill in the frames between the keys. As I described what these frames were for to my kids (and a random onlooker), I discovered mentally why I’m fascinated with such works. I’m fascinated by them because they’re unfinished. I find that these artifacts of the creative process give me insights into the mind of the artist creating them. I love the rough drawings, erasure marks, rough lines, and all the things that show how the artist works. This took me back to another museum visit. Last year I was lucky enough to attend an exhibition of the works…

Paul has been working in the IT industry since 1985. In that time, he has successfully assisted hundreds of companies’ architect software applications to solve their toughest business problems. Paul has been a teacher and mentor through various mediums such as video courses, blogs, articles and speaking engagements at user groups and conferences around the world. Paul has multiple courses in the www.pluralsight.com library (https://bit.ly/3gvXgvj) and on Udemy.com (https://bit.ly/3W0K8kX) on topics ranging from C#, LINQ, JavaScript, Angular, MVC, WPF, XML, jQuery, and Bootstrap. Contact Paul at psheriff@pdsa.com. JavaScript, Python, and almost any programming language existing today. In this article, you’re going to learn multiple methods of creating and manipulating JSON documents in .NET 8. In addition, you’ll learn how to serialize and deserialize C# objects to and from JSON. JSON…

Kevin S. Goff is Database architect/developer/ speaker/author, and has been writing for CODE Magazine since 2004. He was a member of the Microsoft MVP program from 2005 through 2019, when he spoke frequently community events in the Mid-Atlantic region and also spoke regularly for the VS Live/Live 360 Conference brand from 2012 through 2015. seeing many questions on LinkedIn that boil down to, “How do I increase my SQL/database skills to get a data analyst/database developer job?” In this industry, that question is complicated, as it means different things to different people. It’s arrogant to claim to have all the answers, because doing so would presume that someone knows about every job requirement out there. Having said that, I’ve worked in this industry for decades, both as an employee and…

Markus, the dynamic founder of CODE Group and CODE Magazine’s publisher, is a celebrated Microsoft RD (Regional Director) and multi-award-winning MVP (Most Valuable Professional). A prolific coder, he’s influenced and advised top Fortune 500 companies and has been a Microsoft contractor, including on the Visual Studio team. Globally recognized as a speaker and author, Markus’s expertise spans Artificial Intelligence (AI), .NET, client-side web, and cloud development, focusing on user interfaces, productivity, and maintainable systems. Away from work, he’s an enthusiastic windsurfer, scuba diver, ice hockey player, golfer, and globetrotter, who loves gaming on PC or Xbox during rainy days. turbulent time. The dotcom bubble had burst, and the glory days of technology seemed to be over. Was the internet really all it was supposed to be or was it just…

Julie Lerman is a Microsoft Regional director, Docker Captain, and a long-time Microsoft MVP who now counts her years as a coder in decades. She makes her living as a coach and consultant to software teams around the world. You can find Julie presenting on Entity Framework, Domain-Driven Design and other topics at user groups and conferences around the world. Julie blogs at thedatafarm.com/blog, is the author of the highly acclaimed “Programming Entity Framework” books, and many popular videos on Pluralsight.com. here’s a link for those issues: https://bit.ly/EFCore8Features. The list of issues for the fixes can be perused at https://bit.ly/EFCore8Fixes. If you’ve followed my tech wanderings over the years, it may be no surprise that my A#1 favorite new feature is the ComplexProperty mapping, an alternative to using Owned Entities…

Joydip Kanjilal is an MVP (2007-2012), software architect, author, and speaker with more than 20 years of experience. He has more than 16 years of experience in Microsoft .NET and its related technologies. Joydip has authored eight books, more than 500 articles, and has reviewed more than a dozen books. than SOAP or REST alone. This article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the evolution of wеb APIs, exploring thе transition from SOAP to REST, and finally to GraphQL. It will delve into thе motivation behind еach architectural style, and their characteristics, benefits, and drawbacks. By understanding the progression from SOAP to REST and thе emergence of GraphQL, developers can makе informed decisions when choosing the right API design for their projects. If you’re to work with the code…

Sahil Malik is a Microsoft MVP, INETA speaker, a .NET author, consultant, and trainer. Sahil loves interacting with fellow geeks in real time. His talks and trainings are full of humor and practical nuggets. His areas of expertise are cross-platform Mobile app development, Microsoft anything, and security and identity. computers became a lot more powerful, and our customers demanded that we build skyscrapers. You might have heard of something called Moore's law, which is the observation that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double every two years with a minimal rise in cost. Yes, computers have become very powerful, but just due to basic physics and energy density issues, we’ve also hit a wall in absolute computing power that we can pack within a single processor. As…

Mike Rousos is a Principal Software Engineer on the .NET Customer Engagement Team. A member of the .NET team since 2004, he has worked on a wide variety of feature areas and contributed content to the .NET team blog, .NET Conf sessions, Channel 9 videos, and .NET development ebooks like “.NET Microservices: Architecture for Containerized .NET Applications.” Outside of work, Mike is involved in his church and enjoys reading, writing, and games of all sorts. His primary hobby, though, is spending time with his four kids. the overhead of maintaining underlying infrastructure. But for apps that are already deployed on-premises, it can be difficult to know how to get started re-platforming to one of these environments. Even though .NET applications can often by deployed to Azure App Service with minimal…