A collection of 345 posts
We take many environmental factors for granted when it comes to running our .NET applications. Information about the operating system may seem insignificant for folks deploying to rigorously maintained target environments. Still, for folks who publish desktop client software, the...
Github has an official CLI tool to enhance our command-line experience. From working with repositories, issues, and gists, to name a few of the features. I am a OhMyZsh user on macOS and wanted to take advantage of the command...
Hello there, fellow enterprise developer. Before we get to the solution to our problem, let’s take a minute to close our eyes and reflect on our past decisions that led us to this moment. What could we have done differently?...
.NET 5 is here, and with the release comes a barrel of Blazor improvements. One of the upgrades Blazorinos should be most excited about is JavaScript isolation and object references within .NET.
Dependency injection (DI) isn’t a new concept in the .NET space, but the ASP.NET team made it a mainstream feature of ASP.NET Core. ASP.NET Core ships with a default service location mechanism that may behave differently than the previous inversion...
No matter how you choose to pronounce it, GIFs are a fantastic technology of our modern age. A correctly selected GIF can bring laughter, joy, and even comfort to both sender and recipient alike.
Let’s say we’re building a brand new HTTP API that supports webhooks, and we want the best for our ASP.NET consumers. We should document elements like endpoints, payloads, authentication, and responses our API expects from consumers. Documentation can be overwhelming...
As long as there has been software, there have been bugs. Exceptions are a hierarchy of classes designed to help developers capture, inspect, and handle errors. For C# developers and many other languages, the way we work with exceptions is...
.NET 5 is shaping up to be an excellent release for .NET folks, and C# developers are fortunate to get more features to help solve day to day programming problems and niche optimizations. One of the features that caught my...
As a web developer, I rarely need to deal with physical files on disk. It’s a request/response kind of life while communicating with a database engine. When working on this blog, I find myself doing more file manipulation, as I’m...
