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Most relational databases are a modern marvel, with many features waiting for you to use. However, for .NET developers, you often need to discover methods to get data into and out of our database instances that work for our use cases. In this post, you’ll explore Microsoft SQL Server’s (MSSQL) Cursor and how to use it with the Entity Framework Core APIs.
The ASP.NET team built ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs to help developers build more concise and efficient web APIs. The approach has fewer features in favor of improved resource utilization and higher request throughput. One of the features to be “removed”...
The release of .NET 6 unleashed a wave of ASP.NET Core goodies on the development community. Some features received much attention, while some flew silently under the radar. One of the features I recently discovered was CSS isolation and JavaScript...
Have you ever needed the results of a method in an instance, but not have the required dependencies to instantiate the object? If you answered yes, let me start by saying you’re a weirdo, a good weirdo, but still a...
I’ve recently talked to folks from the #100devs boot camp, which got me thinking about the software development interviewing process. Not that I’m looking for a new job, but what questions would I expect to get during a technical interview...
Some folks may follow me on Twitter and see my daily tip tweets around C#, F#, and .NET in general. Recently, I’ve been thinking about accessibility and helping folks with vision impairment enjoy the tweets as well. My tweets are...
Part of building a great user experience for users is allowing them to see the impact of their actions. When it comes to uploading images, one technique you can use to improve the UX of your applications is to preview...
I’ve recently spent a lot of time with my newest obsession, HTMX, and it’s seriously great. However, a challenge I face frequently is how to manage JavaScript dependencies in my ASP.NET Core applications. There’s NPM, Yarn, Gulp, Grunt, Webpack, Parcel,...
As you move towards .NET 6, you also get new opportunities to upgrade legacy codebases to the latest and greatest. Unfortunately, updating a legacy codebase can be nerve-racking. Luckily, in this post, I wanted to share a technique I recently...
I was recently in an office hour with folks who had recently upgraded an ASP.NET Core MVC application to .NET 6. All UI interactions began failing with very odd behavior in the upgraded version: Request models were entering actions as...
