A collection of 345 posts
Object Relational Mappers (ORMs) can help increase our productivity. The ORM pattern can handle the integration between our C# models and the database by providing an abstraction that limits our need to understand the underlying data-access mechanisms (not an excuse...
Being part of a community means being inspired by other folks’ work to learn, get better, and add our value back in. When I read Jeremy Miller’s Oakton post about running development-time commands, I was inspired to contribute. Being hosted...
ASP.NET MVC and Razor Pages ship with some very sensible defaults. That doesn’t mean that all of our problems are solved. We may want to add new HTML helpers, navigation extension methods, or change the folder structure of our ASP.NET...
Razor is a sharp user interface language, but it can also cut into our sensibilities and aesthetic code choices. ASP.NET ships with many HTML helpers to help reduce the amount of code we write to ship user interfaces, and for...
The great thing about ASP.NET has generally been its “get stuff done” attitude, with many defaults and conventions set for us right out of the box. Sane defaults mean we can be productive and build apps quickly without requiring a...
Programming is easy, but math can be hard at times. In this post, we’ll write some C# code that will help us determine the next number in an interval sequence.
It is always nice to learn something new, regardless of our experience. In this short but very cool post, we’ll learn more about a little known feature having to do with Action, Func, and Predicate in .NET.
By default, ASP.NET and IIS protect us from large requests by putting hard limits on the transmitted size. IIS buffers files in our server’s memory before passing the byte array to ASP.NET. IIS’ default limit is 4MB and ASP.NET Core...
On May 13, I’ll be giving a talk about Starting A Blog at JetBrains’ .NET Days Online. This post is a companion to the presentation but should serve as an excellent general-use guide for anyone starting their blogging adventure. Starting...
