A collection of 86 posts
Auth is the most critical part of the modern application stack. The abundance of data breaches signals that it is also challenging to get right. I find the idea of managing identities and secrets scary. I don’t want to be...
I recently worked with Swashbuckle, a .NET package that can generate Swagger 2.0 and OpenAPI 3.0 specifications from existing ASP.NET Core solutions. The benefit of the library is we can write HTTP APIs and get automatically generated documentation.
Modern development has an abundance of processing power, network bandwidth, and disk space. Given our current fortunes, we should spend these resources like there’s no tomorrow, right? Well, no! We should be mindful of our resource utilization and how it...
I’ve designed this post for folks new to ASP.NET Core web development and want to learn the basic steps it takes to add a new endpoint to an existing ASP.NET Core MVC application. Along the way, we’ll explain the purpose...
Within the .NET community, integration testing has become a common practice thanks to advancements in the framework. ASP.NET Core has a robust integration testing suite allowing .NET developers to run in-memory versions of their web applications, with the ability to...
As web applications evolve, and we better understand the problems we are solving, reorganizing routes becomes an annoying inevitability. In this short but helpful post, we’ll add a few extension methods to the IEndpointRouteBuilder interface that makes mapping redirects a...
We’ve all been there before, needing to bridge the gap between a legacy system and our modern ASP.NET Core MVC application. I recently had an office hour with a great developer named Ramakrishna that needed to support a legacy security...
I’m a big proponent of static site generators. They provide the ultimate combination of performance and deployment options, period. For ASP.NET developers, we have access to powerful application building tools like Razor and ASP.NET Core. Ultimately all these dynamic elements...
Long gone are the days when internet speed was a problem for most technology workers. Anecdotally, I downloaded a video for this post, misplaced it, and rather than search my local machine, I decided to download it again. It’s a...
Every successful web application inevitably gets more users, and in that crowd of users, there is an individual who enthusiastically carries the torch of desktop apps in their heart. These torchbearers of the desktop have in their fingers the impulsive...
