Benchmarking is essential in application development, especially if you aim to scale up your app. Benchmarking enables you to evaluate your application's resource consumption, which helps you identify potential updates to speed up performance. If not scaling, you will need the application performance to be optimal to enhance user experience and reduce memory and processing costs.

This enhancement is part of Raygun’s 12 Days of Christmas 2024. Over the next few weeks, we’ll share daily updates on bug fixes and feature improvements inspired by feedback from you, our customers. These are the small but impactful changes you’ve asked for, designed to make Raygun faster and easier to use. Check back tomorrow for the next update and see how we’re leveling up your experience one day at a time! Our special thanks to Isak from Sweden who suggested this great idea!

C# has always been one of the most popular programming languages among developers. It continuously evolves to meet timed features and trends. Its robustness and flexibility make it an all-purpose language and ideal for domains like desktop applications, enterprise systems, web development, games, and cross-platform and native mobile applications. With the launch of.NET 9, Microsoft introduced C# 13, equipped with new features to improve developer productivity and code quality.

You may have encountered a situation where you must do some backend job without user intervention. For example, in an IOT application, your application needs to receive frequently published data from devices or send scheduler values to devices. .NET provides background job libraries for such tasks. I will discuss one of the background libraries, Quartz.NET, with a coding example. I will break down Quartz for you with simple, practical examples.

Adopting Blazor best practices is the only way to get your ASP.NET Core applications on the right track. Rather than juggling between C# for the backend logics and JavaScript for the frontend interactions, you can use Blazor to build interactive web apps using only C#. It makes your development process easier, reduces context switching, and lets you create a more cohesive codebase.

.NET 9 is releasing in mid-November 2024. Like every.NET version, this introduces several important features and enhancements aligning developers with an ever-changing development ecosystem. In this blog series, I will explore critical updates in different areas of.NET. For this post, I will look through advancements in System.Text.Json.

The.NET ecosystem has come a long way, but the latest.NET Framework trends for 2025 prove there’s still much to explore and develop. Since its release in 2002, every newer version has brought some sort of upgrade, like the Parallel Task Library in.NET 4.0 and the shift to.NET Core in 2016. The introduction of later.NET versions unified these advancements to make development faster and more flexible. So, what does 2025 hold?