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ASP.NET’s Razor engine comes with an assortment of HTML tag helpers. Some of the helpers are straightforward, while others may be challenging for folks to grasp. One of the more powerful HTML elements is select, allowing us to select a...
Hypertext Markup Language is the first programming language many of us learn. Like chess, it’s easy to learn but can take a lifetime to master. Its declarative syntax is ideal and ubiquitous across many different ecosystems, and C# embraces it...
HTTP semantics might not be vital to us humans, but they are the essential glue that holds the internet together. HTTP status codes allow clients to interpret the response they are about to receive and make processing accommodations. We may...
Many developers are familiar with your most common HTTP methods of GET and POST. Many of us do not realize that there is a world of other HTTP methods that can we can utilize for additional semantic meaning for our...
Anyone building a web application will eventually have to deal with sorting tabular data. It’s a rule established into the constitution of the internet (if there was one). While it may be simple in concept, its implementation can be daunting...
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...
