Redis is an in-memory data store that is open-source and can be used as an alternation for database, message broker, cache. Redis supports multiple data formats such as string, lists, sets, hashes, bitmaps, etc.  Here in this article, I'm sharing an easy and simple way to use Redis as your data store in your application.  In this sample code, we will store data as hashes that data is JSON serialized. You can install Redis on your machine or can use Azure Redis for Cache if you have an Azure account.  In order to communicate with Redis, you need to use " StackExchange.Redis " NuGet package.  Here are the things you need to do. Let's start with the interfaces. You need an interface for Redis Connection Factory which helps to create the Redis connection for your application.  using StackExchange.Redis; namespace RedisDemo.Interfaces {     public interface IRedisConnectionFactory     {         ConnectionMultiplexer Connecti...

You can simply use the below code structure when you want to write a data access layer for Azure Storage Table.  Use blow Interface as the skeleton of your data access class.       public interface ITableStorage<T>     {         Task<List<T>> GetAllAsync(string partitionKey);         Task<List<T>> RetrieveEntityAsync(string partitionKey, string rowPrefix);         Task<T> GetSingleAsync(T entity);         Task<T> GetSingleAsync(string partitionKey, string rowKey);         Task InsertEntityAsync(T entity, bool forInsert = true);         Task DeleteEntityAsync(T entity);         Task DeleteSingleAsync(string partitionKey, string rowKey);         Task<List<T>> RetrieveAsync(string partitionKey);     } Here is the generic concrete cl...

Think... You have a solution with multiple C# projects and include maybe 1000 classes which are so hard to debug and test. But you have a task to validate the output of certain functions when certain parameters have specific values assigned. Especially, you don't have unit tests added or difficult to implement unit tests.  Idea... You can use C# Interactive to cater to everything above and there are many benefits. C# Interactive is a feature that comes with Visual Studio 2015 update 1 and later versions. It is a REPL Editor for C# (Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop). If you are interested in learning how to code you can use the online version of this C# Interactive to write and execute codes.  You can use Microsoft's C# learning site if you don't have Visual Studio installed on your PC.  If you have Visual Studio installed in your machine you can go to View > Other Windows > C# Interactive to open the C# Interactive window. If you want to execute any method in C# Interac...