A collection of 345 posts
In .NET, launch settings (launchSettings.json) allow us to share run commands across all development environments, regardless of IDE and editor choices. For the most part, launch commands are cross-platform capable, so they aren’t limited to any operating system, which is...
C# is a statically typed language, and one of the greatest derived strengths is our ability to ask questions around our code. Whether you love it or hate it, reflection is a critical part of the .NET stack, and when...
Love it or hate it, The minimal templates in .NET 6 are here to stay. However, while some applaud minimal templates for their simplicity and clarity, some in the community find the change potentially confusing. I can see both sides...
The modern era of programming has become primarily defined by context-based programming models. What do I mean by “ context-based” programming models? Most applications we write will operate in an environment that we cannot fully recreate in our local development...
I’ve recently been on an HTMX journey, trying to learn more about the library and slowly combining it with my expert-level knowledge of ASP.NET Core. What I’ve found along the way is that using HTMX is a powerful tool that...
HTMX is a JavaScript library designed to work with various HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE. Three out of the four methods, excluding the GET method, are meant to cause side effects and mutations on the server: update a...
I’ve been working with my new HTMX.NET library, making it easier for ASP.NET Core developers to incorporate the frontend library into their web solutions. One of the features of HTMX is defining your configuration within a meta tag.
With all the momentum behind frontend frameworks, it’s often easy to forget that server-side rendering (SSR) is a mature approach to delivering fast and reliable user experiences. Unfortunately, one of the most significant drawbacks to frontend development is the experience...
So you’ve decided you needed to use inheritance within your object model but are struggling to serialize all the data present on the instances of the types. In a previous post, I wrote about serializing an interface instances using a...
As technology evolves and we progress as a community, I notice that older blog posts erode in their helpfulness. One of the topics I find myself constantly having to relearn, especially as an OSS author, is the ability to start...
