A collection of 68 posts
If you’re building apps with .NET Minimal APIs, you’ll likely want to implement OpenAPI along with the OpenAPI’s UI interface. The UI interface allows API developers to give consuming clients the ability to learn more about the surface API related...
As I work more consistently with the top-level style of .NET and ASP.NET Core applications, I find myself needing to do more start-up operations that have to occur before my application starts. Typically, in an ASP.NET Core application, the server...
ASP.NET Core has seen an overhaul to its authorization system in the form of authorization policies. As a developer, you can add several policies that can check claims, require an authenticated user, and even handle a custom requirement with any...
So you’ve decided to bolt on an existing Blazor WebAssembly (WASM) UI to a current ASP.NET Core solution. First of all, congratulations on taking the first steps to try something new in the world of #dotnet. Secondly, you’re probably reading...
I was recently reading Mike Hadlow’s blog post titled “Writing .NET Applciation Services for Kubernetes,” and it had me reflecting on my knowledge, or lack thereof, of deploying .NET applications into a distributed environment like Kubernetes. His section on Security...
There’s some discussion around the ASP.NET Core repository on the best way to give Minimal API users access to validation as a programmatic concept inside of ASP.NET Core. It’s a lot of positive feedback with some good ideas, so I...
While never sold as an outright replacement for ASP.NET Core MVC, ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs are bound to have developers asking, “Which one should I use?” The answer depends on your use case, but in reality, you can use all...
The ASP.NET team built ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs to help developers build more concise and efficient web APIs. The approach has fewer features in favor of improved resource utilization and higher request throughput. One of the features to be “removed”...
The release of .NET 6 unleashed a wave of ASP.NET Core goodies on the development community. Some features received much attention, while some flew silently under the radar. One of the features I recently discovered was CSS isolation and JavaScript...
Have you ever needed the results of a method in an instance, but not have the required dependencies to instantiate the object? If you answered yes, let me start by saying you’re a weirdo, a good weirdo, but still a...
