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Microsoft Excel is the undisputed champion of the business world, powering every industry and informing decision-makers at the highest echelons of corporate structures. As a developer, it is not a matter of if we’ll have to deal with Excel spreadsheets,...
If you are a frequent reader of this blog, you’ll know that I am an unapologetic web developer. I love everything about the web and its ability to deliver rich experiences to users. My technology stack of choice is primarily...
One of the advantages of moving to the latest versions of .NET (Core and 5) is building our applications on many different operating systems. The most significant benefits come in our choices for build agents in our continuous integration tools...
Technical lingo is a blessing and a curse. It helps us communicate within our community more effectively and precisely but has the downside of making it difficult for newcomers. Thus, it’s essential to clarify what terms mean within a given...
Routing is the backbone of every web application, and with ASP.NET Core, it’s never been easier to mix and match request handling frameworks. We can choose from MVC, Blazor, Razor Pages, SignlaR, Carter, and many more. Arguably the strength of...
One of the most powerful features of relational database engines is the ability for tables to be self-referential. Having rows reference other rows within the same table allows us to create complex hierarchies and tree structures with minimal effort.
Object Relational Mappers (ORMs) allow us to define relationships between entities in our relational database using C# objects. Depending on which ORM we use, we can also get the library to generate the relationships’ schema. Entity Framework Core is one...
When working within an organization, development teams have to make many infrastructural decisions, and those decisions can lead to different software development practices. Whether development teams are maintaining a monolith, keep several applications, or have adopted microservices, the mono-repository (Monorepo)...
We all would like to believe that our applications are bug-free and will run without exceptions. Those of us who’ve been around long enough will know that users will find a way to break our most meticulously tested codebases. In...
The purpose of this post is to walk through the basics of starting an ASP.NET Core HTTP API. A fundamental understanding of all the parts that make an ASP.NET Core HTTP API work and why each element matters. We’ll also...
