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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...
Web Components are a powerful way to add UX to your web applications while using the web platform. That makes them ideal as they can be used in various ecosystems with little or no changes. They also require no build...
A few new tricks have shipped with the .NET 8 release, and I’d like to take this time to experiment with them. Specifically, I wanted to see if folks investing in a Blazor component library could still use the excellent...
With the release of .NET 8, one killer feature will immediately increase the responsiveness of your APIs and Blazor applications: the ability to stream responses. Yes, you could stream responses before, but it’s never been easier with support for IAsyncEnumerable...
I recently hosted JetBrains JavaScript Day with guest speaker Fred K. Schott of Astro fame, who spoke about the View Transitions API being introduced in modern browsers. You should watch the video, which will give you a primer for this...
Templating is a common approach to separating logic from presentation, and many options exist within the .NET ecosystem. The most popular is the Razor engine used by ASP.NET Core, but it currently has some dependencies that make it difficult to...
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before. You spend months working with UI and UX experts, building what you think is the most optimal means of displaying business information. You sit in a meeting with your stakeholders, demoing what...
The ASP.NET Core technology stack works on the pipeline concept. A user request travels through the pipeline, where you have opportunities to handle the request in various forms. The approach to enhancing the pipeline in ASP.NET Core has been a...
With .NET 8 on the horizon, Minimal APIs continues to grow its offerings, slowly providing a similar feature set to the frameworks before, including ASP.NET Core MVC and Razor Pages. I was surprised when someone in the community (👋 Hi...
The Model-View-Controller pattern is so common that every technology stack has an implementation of it. ASP.NET developers have been working with the pattern since 2009. Here are a few other things popular in 2009 to remind you of your rapid...
