--- title: Best Code Maze posts — July 2024 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Code Maze posts from July 2024, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/codemaze/best-of/2024/07 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/codemaze/best-of/2024/07 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Code Maze posts — July 2024 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Code Maze posts from July 2024, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Code Maze — July 2024 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-read-appsettings-json-in-a-net-console-application-j3pfh54xt "How to Read appsettings.json in a .NET Console Application") Article Code Maze · 2y How to Read appsettings.json in a .NET Console Application Learn how to read and manage configuration settings using the appsettings.json file in a .NET console application. This guide covers adding the appsettings.json file to your project, installing necessary NuGet packages, setting up ConfigurationBuilder to read the JSON file, and accessing configuration sections either through key specification or binding to strongly typed objects. This ensures maintainability and flexibility in managing environment-specific configurations. 71 1 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/local-functions-vs-lambda-expressions-in-c--txkxuatxi "Local Functions vs Lambda Expressions in C#") Article Code Maze · 2y Local Functions vs Lambda Expressions in C# Local functions and lambda expressions in C# serve different purposes and have distinct performance characteristics. Local functions are methods nested within other methods and excel in performance since they can avoid heap allocation and use struct instead of class captures. Lambda expressions, while concise and useful for passing as delegates, generally require heap allocation and object instantiation. Local functions can be generic, recursive, and used as iterators, whereas lambda expressions struggle with these features. Thus, local functions are often more versatile and performant, especially when not using APIs that demand delegates. 60 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/bridge-design-pattern-in-c--m8i4xkpyt "Bridge Design Pattern in C#") Article Code Maze · 2y Bridge Design Pattern in C# The Bridge Design Pattern is a structural pattern in C# that helps decouple a class’s implementation from its abstraction, allowing the two to vary independently. This pattern uses interfaces and abstract classes as abstraction and implementation layers respectively, avoiding the explosion of subclasses that occur in inheritance-based designs. For example, by separating discount logic from delivery calculation in a pricing system, it allows different combinations of both without creating a subclass for each combination. 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