Joydip Kanjilal

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Joydip Kanjilal is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in ASP.Net, as well as a speaker and the author of several books and articles. He received the prestigious MVP award at ASP.Net for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012.

He has more than 16 years of industry experience in IT, with more than 10 years in Microsoft .Net and its related technologies. He has been selected as MSDN Featured Developer of the Fortnight (MSDN) and as Community Credit Winner several times.

He is the author of eight books and more than 250 articles. Many of his articles have been featured at Microsoft’s Official Site on ASP.Net.

He was a speaker a speaker at the reputed Spark IT 2010 event and at the reputed Dr. Dobb’s Conference 2014 in Bangalore. He's also worked as a judge for the Jolt Awards at Dr. Dobb's Journal.

Take advantage of response compression middleware in ASP.Net Core to reduce bandwidth requirements and improve the responsiveness of your apps

Take advantage of the iterator pattern to traverse aggregate objects without having to expose their underlying data structures

Take advantage of the fast, lightweight, and easy-to-use LiteDB for your desktop, mobile, and simple web applications

Take advantage of the flexible and easy-to-use RestSharp HTTP API client to consume your REST APIs

Take advantage of a DelegatingHandler and the X-HTTP-Method-Override in Web API to overcome browser and firewall constraints

Understand the pros and cons of the .Net Framework's various native classes for working with HTTP requests and responses

Take advantage of ASP.Net Core middleware to customize your application’s handling of HTTP requests and responses

This article provides a know how on the Interpreter pattern and how it can be implemented. The code examples are provided in C#.

Understanding the differences between an abstract class and interface is key to designing loosely coupled and extensible applications

Take advantage of asynchronous web pages in ASP.Net to improve the responsiveness and scalability of your applications

Take advantage of feature toggles to manage application features without having to maintain multiple source code branches

Two approaches to solving temporal coupling, a 'design smell' that results when members of a class must be invoked in a specific sequence

Take advantage of the Memento design pattern to store and restore an object's state to support undo or rollbacks in your application

Take advantage of custom exception classes to extend error handling or add meaningful information to the errors thrown by your .Net applications

Learn the causes of memory leaks in .Net, how to detect them, and how avoid them in your applications

Take advantage of ASP.Net Web API authorization filters to authorize incoming requests to your web API

It's easy to create a custom logging framework to log your .Net application's errors and events to a flat file, a database, or the event log

Take advantage of ASP.Net Core's flexible, customizable and extendable Logging API to plug in a custom logger with ease

How to use the InMemory provider in Entity Framework Core to test your methods without hitting the database or using fakes and mocks

Take advantage of dependency injection in ASP.Net Core to plug in components and improve code maintenance and testability