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Seeing the results of Corax in production

by Oren Eini

posted on: August 28, 2024

Corax was released just under a year ago, and we are seeing more customers deploying that to production. During a call with a customer, we noticed the following detail:Let me explain what we are seeing here. The two indexes are the same, operating on the same set of documents. The only difference between those indexes is the indexing engine.What is really amazing here is that Corax is able to index in 3:21 minutes what Lucene takes 17:15 minutes to index. In other words, Corax is more than 5 times faster than Lucene in a real world scenario.And these news make me very happy.

BinaryFormatter removed from .NET 9

by Immo Landwerth

posted on: August 28, 2024

Starting with .NET 9, we no longer include an implementation of BinaryFormatter in the runtime. This post covers what options you have to move forward.

.NET Community Toolkit 8.3 is here! NativeAOT, .NET 8 enhancements, and more!

by Sergio Pedri

posted on: August 27, 2024

We're happy to announce the official launch of the .NET Community Toolkit 8.3 release, featuring .NET 8 and NativeAOT support, performance improvements, several bug fixes and enhancements, and more!

C# Dev Kit update brings enhanced Razor IntelliSense, Project Status, and New Config Options

by Wendy Breiding (SHE/HER)

posted on: August 27, 2024

Boost your dev workflow with the C# Dev Kit August 2024 release, which brings enhanced Razor IntelliSense, updated Project Status Bar, and new Project Configuration Options!

Introducing the Pinecone .NET SDK

by Luis Quintanilla

posted on: August 27, 2024

Get started building AI applications in .NET using the Pinecone Vector DB and the Pinecone .NET SDK.

Using Azure Storage Queue messages with Azure Functions and [QueueTrigger]

by Andrew Lock

posted on: August 27, 2024

In this post I discuss using Azure Storage Queue as a message queue and how you can process Storage Queue messages using an Azure Functions app…

You Should Blog

by Ardalis

posted on: August 26, 2024

As a software developer, you might spend most of your time immersed in code, solving problems, and building innovative solutions. But have…Keep Reading →

Automated tests

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posted on: August 26, 2024

Automated tests are important to ensure the quality of your application. In the literature, you'll find many kinds of automated tests such as unit tests, integration tests, functional tests, smoke tests, and so on. I don't like this naming because some tests don't fit in a category and people give

Supercharge your testing experience with MSTest.Analyzers

by Jakub Jareš

posted on: August 21, 2024

MSTest ships with extensive suite of code analyzers to help you write well-formed, performant and error free tests.

Avoiding CDN supply-chain attacks with Subresource Integrity (SRI)

by Andrew Lock

posted on: August 20, 2024

In this post I discus the recent pollyfill.io supply-chain attack and describe how to protect against similar attacks using Subresource Integrity (SRI)…