A collection of 115 posts
When creating a new ASP.NET Core application, you get a set of middleware that performs typical web application duties. Some include serving static assets, routing, HTTPS redirection, and exception handling. Folks looking will also notice a middleware registration of the...
I recently read a classic blog post from the RavenDB community recommending developers think twice about exposing primary identifiers in their URLs. There are several reasons for this, which I’ll summarize in this post, but I wanted to revisit the...
I love the web and HTML. It’s certainly come a long way since its inception and what it provides as a core experience for web developers. While folks can certainly build HTML-exclusive experiences, adding forms on a page inevitably leads...
When working in .NET, there’s a lot of room for reorganizing a codebase, but sometimes we can organize ourselves into a mess of a problem. Recently, when working on an ASP.NET Core Minimal API demo, I seemingly broke an endpoint’s...
Web components are some of the most exciting technology I’ve seen in a long time. They promise to revolutionize how we write, maintain, and ship HTML-based applications. With web components, you can extend the set of HTML tags specific to...
In a previous post, ]I wrote about using RazorComponentResult to render Blazor components](/how-to-use-blazor-server-rendered-components-with-htmx) from ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs. The ability allows developers to reuse Blazor components in new and exciting scenarios, specifically with JavaScript UI frameworks and libraries such as...
Yes, I’m guilty! I’m guilty of ignoring the web platform and all the extraordinary riches waiting for discovery. For all the lip service the .NET community loves to give towards being performance-minded, it’s a shame we stop at the response...
Web Components are gaining momentum in the web platform space, and frankly, it’s bittersweet for us ASP.NET Core developers. On the one hand, you can use Web Components in your current ASP.NET Core applications, as I demonstrated in a previous...
Lately, I’ve been helping a few developers solve some of their issues around Blazor adoption. While I have mixed feelings about the technology, my urge to help developers overcome their challenges outweighs my trepidation with the technology itself.
In my last post, Shoelace Web Components with ASP.NET Core, I showed ASP.NET Core developers how to integrate the web components of Shoelace into an existing web application. It’s incredible, and you should check it out. If you’ve read this...
