2 posts tagged with "dotnet"

✨ Taming Magic strings in your code: clean, safe, and maintainable solutions! ✨

Magic strings—cool name, annoying problem. 😤 These hardcoded strings (like "Paid" or "Failed") can sneakily break your code, cause typos, and make debugging a nightmare.

Imagine this:

You’re working on a payment system, and a single typo—"faild" instead of "Failed"—slips through. Suddenly, payments are misclassified, users are misinformed, and the system behaves unpredictably.

Sound familiar? You’re not alone. Magic strings like these are everywhere, but you don’t have to put up with them. 🚫 There are better, safer ways to handle these strings.

✨ Forgot this line? Your ASP.NET Core app validation might act strange! ✨

Okay, confession time—I recently encountered a strange issue with my ASP.NET Core validation in an inherited codebase. After some digging, I realized that a simple but crucial step had been missed, causing some pretty frustrating errors. I wanted to share this information with you, and perhaps with my future self, to ensure that we never encounter this issue again.