Paweł Bulwan

One of the common ways to do two-factor Authentication is to use an authenticator app like Authy, Microsoft Authenticator, 1Password or LastPass Authenticator. Just to clarify, I am talking about the apps generating time-based one-time passwords (TOTP). They are usually set up like in the screenshot below. You have probably seen it many times: This … Read more

This is a short note showing my fix to an error I encountered when migrating application from .NET Framework to the most recent (at the moment) .NET 6. I’m just pasting the rough code example of how this can be migrated, because: I couldn’t find it anywhere in the Internet I spent some boring hours … Read more

A typical reference to a NuGet package in your project might look like In the above example, we can see that we reference a package Newtonsoft.Json in a specific version, 11.0.1. We don’t specify any constraints for a person or a tool that would like to update the version in reference. Now, let’s take a … Read more

Which of the following lines, in your opinion, is a better choice for logging a trace to Azure App Insights? I must admit that for a long time, I used the string interpolation (option A). It is concise, has no characters that would be redundant, and does the job. But it turns out, that the … Read more

I like to maintain a zero-warning policy in a project. In the case of false-alarm warnings, I think it’s better to suppress them than to leave them active. When we suppress a warning, it will not draw our attention every time we look at logs. So, how can we suppress a warning like the example … Read more

I’ll start with a disclaimer that the companies I’ve been working with lately are doing a fantastic job in solving real-world problems. My reflections here are not meant to undermine the value of projects I was part of. Instead, I wanted to explore the feeling that to do something really meaningful, perhaps I would need … Read more

Cosmos DB can be configured with a Geo-Redundancy feature enabled. In such situation, it is supposed to replicate data to multiple regions. We should also be able to read from all of those regions. In this article, you will learn how to query a specific region of an Azure Cosmos DB database. In the Azure … Read more

What is Query Acceleration Query acceleration is a feature in Azure Blob Storage that can be handy if you use Data Lake (or general Blob Storage) to keep your data. The feature allows server-side filtering of data, assuming it’s in one of the supported formats, like JSON or CSV. It can result in limiting the … Read more

A few weeks ago, we started using SonarCloud in some of our .NET projects. We wanted to evaluate if this continuous code quality tool is something that would help us in our daily work, or rather annoy developers with loads of minor issues and false alarms. We already have ReSharper licenses, so using another tool … Read more

New releases of .NET often come with features that I really like to use in my daily developer work. Therefore, I like to keep projects I work on at the most recent stable version of .NET. Soon we’ll officially have stable versions .NET 6, released along with C# 10 and Visual Studio 2022. I like … Read more