A collection of 99 posts
With all the momentum behind frontend frameworks, it’s often easy to forget that server-side rendering (SSR) is a mature approach to delivering fast and reliable user experiences. Unfortunately, one of the most significant drawbacks to frontend development is the experience...
So you’ve decided you needed to use inheritance within your object model but are struggling to serialize all the data present on the instances of the types. In a previous post, I wrote about serializing an interface instances using a...
I’ve recently been working with Docker deployments to get my ASP.NET Core applications into the hands of more developers. The whole experience has been generally positive, and it is reminiscent of the early days of Git deployments. Write some code,...
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...
