C# Programming Language Articles

.NET Job Scheduling — TickerQ and Modern Architecture

TickerQ represents the next generation of .NET schedulers with compile-time validation, reflection-free execution, and SignalR-powered monitoring. Understand when modern architecture patterns and performance optimizations justify adopting newer frameworks over established alternatives.

Power of Ten Rules: More Relevant Than Ever for .NET

Gerard Holzmann’s Power of Ten rules prevented spacecraft failures and exposed Toyota’s fatal throttle bugs. Four rules transfer directly to C# with superior enforcement. Three become irrelevant thanks to the managed runtime.

The verdict: These principles aren’t just valid. They’re finally enforceable without heroic manual effort.

.NET Job Scheduling — NCronJob and Native Minimalism

NCronJob leverages IHostedService for lightweight scheduling with zero external dependencies. Understand when minimal infrastructure and native ASP.NET Core integration outweigh advanced features for cloud-native architectures.

.NET Job Scheduling — Coravel and Fluent Simplicity

Coravel prioritizes developer velocity with fluent APIs, zero infrastructure, and integrated features like queuing and caching. Understand when convenience and rapid iteration trump persistence and clustering for practical application development.

.NET Job Scheduling — Quartz.NET for Enterprise Scale

Quartz.NET provides advanced scheduling semantics, database-backed clustering, and flexible storage for systems demanding complex workflows. Understand when enterprise features justify operational complexity and how Quartz.NET scales across distributed deployments.

.NET Job Scheduling — Hangfire and Persistent Reliability

Hangfire combines persistent job storage, automatic retries, and real-time monitoring to simplify background processing. Learn when database-backed reliability matters and how Hangfire scales from single instances to distributed workers.

.NET Job Scheduling — The Landscape

Explore the spectrum of .NET job scheduling from lightweight in-memory solutions to enterprise-grade distributed systems. Understand which approach fits your operational model and why background processing architecture matters.

NetEvolve.HealthChecks 5.0: 27+ Targeted Probes, Zero Boilerplate

NetEvolve.HealthChecks 5.0 is a decisive expansion—broader coverage scope, less boilerplate.

New domain‑specific packages extend monitoring across cloud services, messaging platforms, graph, time‑series, vector and AI backends. In parallel, the former inheritance‑driven shared base library (abstract classes + repetitive DI wiring) was replaced by purpose-built source generators—removing manual registration churn and consolidating intent. Release 5.0 also formalizes full support for .NET 10—aligning with current trimming and analyzer improvements.

.NET 10 Testing: Microsoft Finally Fixed the Test Runner (Mostly)

.NET 10 replaces VSTest with Microsoft.Testing.Platform, bringing SDK-integrated testing with faster discovery, consistent behavior across environments, and explicit configuration contracts. But it requires .NET 10, breaks old test adapters, and demands CI pipeline discipline. Here’s what actually changes, who should migrate now, and who should wait.

Code Metrics and Configuration: Beyond the Numbers Game

Code metrics have become a standard feature in modern development environments, yet their implementation and interpretation often leave much to be desired. While Visual Studio and .NET provide comprehensive code metrics analysis, the way these metrics are configured, presented, and (more critically) acted upon reveals a fundamental disconnect between measurement and meaningful improvement.

What code metrics actually measure, how to configure them properly, and (more importantly) why blindly following thresholds without understanding context is, frankly, a recipe for misguided refactoring efforts that waste your team’s time and actively damage your codebase.

.NET 10: Boring by Design, Reliable by Default

Microsoft wants you to believe .NET 10 is boring. They’re right — and that’s the best news we’ve had in years.

.NET 10 is here, and for once, Microsoft didn’t oversell it. LTS support through 2028, JIT improvements that actually matter, and C# 14 features that won’t rewrite your architecture. Here’s what you need to know before migrating.

.NET 10: Timing Is the New Technical Debt

2025 reshapes the .NET ecosystem with faster release cycles and shared responsibility. Discover why migrating to .NET 10 by Q1 2026 — and supporting your dependencies — turns timing into sustainable ROI.