A collection of 91 posts
An essential part of building web applications is understanding what elements may look like in an evolving user interface. For most users, the web is a visual medium with complex components that include many images. This trend has accelerated since...
Nothing screams PRODUCTIVITY like real-time charts on a large dashboard, with every onscreen update beating to the heartbeat of your organization’s rhythm.
The HTTP specification is a living document constantly being evaluated and modified. While many developers may consider the specification “done”, many suggested HTTP methods are on the horizon that will allow you to do new and exciting things. One such...
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...
