Any experienced .NET developer knows that even though .NET applications have a garbage collector, memory leaks occur all the time. It’s not that the garbage collector has bugs, it’s just that there are ways we can (easily) cause memory leaks in a managed language.

Memory leaks are sneakily bad creatures. It’s easy to ignore them for a very long time, while they slowly destroy the application. With memory leaks, your memory consumption grows, creating GC pressure and performance problems. Finally, the program will just crash on an out-of-memory exception.

In this article, we will go over the most common reasons for memory leaks in .NET programs. All examples are in C#, but they are relevant to other languages.  

With this guide, you will know how JWTs work in-depth, including having a good understanding of the cryptographic primitives that they are based upon, which are used in many other security use cases. 

 public class VegaContext : DbContext, IUnitOfWork, IDbContext
    {
#region Constructors (2) 

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes the <see cref="VegaContext" /> class.
        /// </summary>
        static VegaContext()
        {
            Database.SetInitializer<VegaContext>(null);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="VegaContext" /> class.
        /// </summary>
        public VegaContext() : base("LocalSqlServer") { }

#endregion Constructors 

#region Properties (2) 

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the languages.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        /// The languages.
        /// </value>
        public DbSet<Language> Languages { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the resources.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        /// The resources.
        /// </value>
        public DbSet<Resource> Resources { get; set; }

#endregion Properties 

#region Methods (2) 

// Public Methods (1) 

        /// <summary>
        /// Setups the specified model builder.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="modelBuilder">The model builder.</param>
        public void Setup(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
        {
            //todo
            modelBuilder.Configurations.Add(new ResourceMap());
            modelBuilder.Configurations.Add(new LanguageMap());
            modelBuilder.Entity<Resource>().ToTable("Vega_Languages_Resources");
            modelBuilder.Entity<Language>().ToTable("Vega_Languages_Languages");
            //base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
        }
// Protected Methods (1) 

        /// <summary>
        /// This method is called when the model for a derived context has been initialized, but
        /// before the model has been locked down and used to initialize the context.  The default
        /// implementation of this method does nothing, but it can be overridden in a derived class
        /// such that the model can be further configured before it is locked down.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="modelBuilder">The builder that defines the model for the context being created.</param>
        /// <remarks>
        /// Typically, this method is called only once when the first instance of a derived context
        /// is created.  The model for that context is then cached and is for all further instances of
        /// the context in the app domain.  This caching can be disabled by setting the ModelCaching
        /// property on the given ModelBuidler, but note that this can seriously degrade performance.
        /// More control over caching is provided through use of the DbModelBuilder and DbContextFactory
        /// classes directly.
        /// </remarks>
        protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
        {
            modelBuilder.Configurations.Add(new ResourceMap());
            modelBuilder.Configurations.Add(new LanguageMap());
            modelBuilder.Entity<Resource>().ToTable("Vega_Languages_Resources");
            modelBuilder.Entity<Language>().ToTable("Vega_Languages_Languages");
            base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
        }

#endregion Methods 

        #region IUnitOfWork Members
        /// <summary>
        /// Sets this instance.
        /// </summary>
        /// <typeparam name="TEntity">The type of the entity.</typeparam>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public new IDbSet<TEntity> Set<TEntity>() where TEntity : class
        {
            return base.Set<TEntity>();
        }
        #endregion
    }

public class LoadContexts
    {
        public LoadContexts()
        {
            var directoryPath = HttpRuntime.BinDirectory;//AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory; //"Dll folder path";

            var directoryCatalog = new DirectoryCatalog(directoryPath, "*.dll");

            var aggregateCatalog = new AggregateCatalog();
            aggregateCatalog.Catalogs.Add(directoryCatalog);

            var container = new CompositionContainer(aggregateCatalog);
            container.ComposeParts(this);
        }

        //[Import]
        //public IPlugin Plugin { get; set; }

        [ImportMany]
        public IEnumerable<IDbContext> Contexts { get; set; }
    }

public class MainContext : DbContext, IUnitOfWork
    {
        public MainContext() : base("LocalSqlServer") { }

        protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
        {
            base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
            var contextList = new LoadContexts(); //ObjectFactory.GetAllInstances<IDbContext>();
            foreach (var context in contextList.Contexts)
                context.Setup(modelBuilder);

            Database.SetInitializer(new MigrateDatabaseToLatestVersion<MainContext, Configuration>());
            //Database.SetInitializer(new DropCreateDatabaseAlways<MainContext>());
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Sets this instance.
        /// </summary>
        /// <typeparam name="TEntity">The type of the entity.</typeparam>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public IDbSet<TEntity> Set<TEntity>() where TEntity : class
        {
            return base.Set<TEntity>();
        }
    }

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If your app makes use of two separate instances of the SQLite library, you can end up with a corrupted SQLite data file

I invited some of my friends to discuss the nebulous concepts of coupling and cohesion in software design. How do we think about these topics? How do we understand the terms? How do we use that in our work as programmers? How do we teach it to others? How much does any of it even matter?

Our invited guests: Corey Haines, Curtis Cooley, Dale Emery, J. B. Rainsberger, Jim Weirich, Kent Beck, Nat Pryce, Ron Jeffries. 

Silver is a free implementation of Apple's Swift programming language.

With Silver, you can use Swift to write code directly against the .NET, Java, Android and Cocoa APIs. And you can also share a lot of non-UI code between platforms. 

Killed by Microsoft is the Microsoft graveyard; a free and open source list of discontinued Microsoft services, products, devices, and apps. We aim to be a source of factual information about the history surrounding Microsoft's dead projects. 

Voyager uses the great MediatR library to do a lot of the heavy lifting. If you’re used MediatR before, Voyager will feel familiar to you. 

We decided to use Qt for our next Geospatial Intelligence Desktop App, but the .NET Core performance was close to Qt and both easily outperformed the JavaFX prototype. So, we are going to use .NET Core for our Geospatial Intelligence Services backend.