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If you read this blog, you likely know I predominantly work with .NET technologies and use web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The web is an excellent space for new and exciting ways to solve age-old problems. I...
I’m a big fan of static site renderers, and they are still one of the missing elements that would make ASP.NET Core more compelling for users across the vast ecosystem divide. In the meantime, developers must rely on tools like...
Let me start by saying that I love the combination of Htmx and ASP.NET Core, and it is a pairing that any .NET developer should consider, whether maintaining an existing application or building a new one. It’s very cool. I...
Folks working with EF Core are likely very fond of the library’s migration features, one of the most vital selling points for adopting an ORM. If you’re building a .NET solution, your database schema will evolve, and adding, removing, and...
Community member Jonathan Channon recently approached me about an appropriate way to test your Htmx-powered applications using the Playwright testing framework. It can be annoying to get the timing right between sending an HTMX request, processing it on the server,...
JavaScript, for better or worse, has a much smaller standard library than what .NET developers are used to with the base class library (BCL). The JavaScript community has made many attempts to build a standard library, and I’m sure some...
The other day, I played around with the Fibonacci sequence and overflowed my int variables in surprisingly low iterations. Did you know you’ll overflow an integer in **48 ** iterations? Don’t believe me? Let’s take a look at the result...
When building web experiences, there are safe operations and destructive ones. In the case of dangerous actions, it’s widespread to ask the user if they’d like to continue with the action before ultimately executing it.
If you’ve ever worked with reflection in .NET, you’re likely familiar with Activator. In .NET 6, ActivatorUtilities was introduced to make it easier to create classes with dependencies. Constructor dependency injection is common in the .NET space, and you’re likely...
The evolution of the C# language has introduced us to many new features and probably made a lot of folks re-evaluate how they write their apps. In the latest versions of .NET, nothing has been marked such a stylistic shift...
