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Wishing Azure Synapse Analytics had support for SQL notebooks? Fear not, it's easy to take advantage rich interactive notebooks for SQL Pools and SQL on Demand.

Creating meta/virtual NuGet packages to encapsulate frequently used collections of dependencies can be an effective way to both simplify their consumption as well as streamline the process of integrating and testing new versions using tools like Dependabot.

Tracking down unexpected allocations in a high-performance .NET parsing library.

Have you tried using the new System.CommandLine packages? This blog shows you how to build up a command line tool quickly and easily, using dependency injection for the initialisation.

C# 8's nullable references feature can clash with common serialization techniques. This article shows how to deal with that.

Azure AD B2C is easy to integrate and configure for simple sign-in / sign-up authentication. But there's a step change in complexity as soon as you want to do something outside of the built-in user flows. An "invite user" flow is one such example, but it's also a fairly common requirement in any business or team orientated SaaS application, which makes AAD B2C as less attractive choice. This post describes an alternative approach for this authentication feature that avoids the need for AAD B2C custom policies, allowing you to keep authentication as simple as possible.

The DoesNotReturn and DoesNotReturnIf attributes have been around for a long time in C#, but they take on additional significance when using C# 8 nullable references.

Azure Synapse Analytics is Microsoft's new unified cloud analytics platform, which will surely be playing a big part in many organizations' technology stacks in the near future. For many organizations, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are the infrastructure deployment method of choice. This blog explains how to deploy an Azure Synapse Analytics workspace using an ARM template.

This blog gives an example of a pattern used for asynchronous initialisation. This pattern allows you to construct readonly objects. It also allows you to use the new nullable references features to ensure your classes are always fully instantiated.

Ian Griffiths is talking about the Reactive Extensions for .NET at dotnetsheff. Learn the ideas behind Rx, and see it applied in an IoT applicable to upload clinical monitoring data to the cloud.

See how to use C# 8.0 nullable references even when targetting older versions of .NET that don't officially support it.

Do you need to encrypt a piece of data in your application? Do you want Azure Key Vault to secure the key? Well, using C# along with a couple of libraries from the Azure SDK, it couldn't be easier to get up and running. This blog explains how to do just that.

Carmel recently passed the 'Az-204 - Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure' exam. Here she shares how she went about preparing!