Discover the top three PDF libraries for .NET developers: IronPDF, QuestPDF, and PuppeteerSharp. Compare features, pricing, and see which works best for your apps. IronPDF is best suited for HTML-to-PDF conversion, compliance with PDF/A and PDF/UA standards, pixel-perfect rendering, editing of PDF documents, and provides security and digital signing. QuestPDF is free for non-commercial use and requires a license for commercial use. Puppeteer-Sharp is primarily a browser automation library first, and not a NET-native PDF SDK.
Discover 5 powerful EF Core NuGet packages that can dramatically improve your .NET applications. Better exception handling in EF Core with EntityFramework.Exceptions. Automatic naming conventions and casing EntityFramework.NamingConventions. Bulk inserts in EF Core with EntityFramework.Extensions. Dynamic queries over LINQ and EF Core - Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.DynamicLinq. Automatic Auditing - Audit.EntityFramework.Core.
How to migrate a Modular Monolith to Microservices in .NET: define service boundaries, extract modules into services, replace direct module-to-module calls with service REST/gRPC, introduce asynchronous messaging, add observability with OpenTelemetry and introduce an API Gateway with YARP
Advantages (pros) and disadvantages (cons) of N-Layered Architecture, Clean Architecture and Vertical Slice Architecture. How to combine Clean Architecture with Vertical Slice Architecture to make the best architecture for .NET projects in 2025.
Learn how to create load tests for microservices with NBomber in .NET. Explore how to get started with NBomber, how to create load scenarios, how to run load scenarios in parallel. How to configure load simulation, thresholds, and custom metrics like counter and gauge. How to configure NBomber with JSON config, how to create txt, MD, CSV and HTML reports.
How to create a Specification Pattern in EF Core for building flexible and reusable database queries in .NET projects. Define reusable filters, includes and sorting as specification classes, avoid the problems that come with large, hard-to-maintain repositories. Combine specifications with AND and OR.
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