A collection of 116 posts
I was recently in an office hour with folks who had recently upgraded an ASP.NET Core MVC application to .NET 6. All UI interactions began failing with very odd behavior in the upgraded version: Request models were entering actions as...
The ASP.NET testing story has gotten easier with each new iteration, emphasizing dependency injection and inversion of control (IoC) containers contributing much of the plumbing for your web applications. Along with more accessible configuration options, we also see more opportunities...
.NET’s greatest strength is its long history of supporting developers through each industry paradigm shift, but just because there’s a new way of doing things doesn’t mean the established method goes away. It’s also a source of confusion and frustration...
Love it or hate it, The minimal templates in .NET 6 are here to stay. However, while some applaud minimal templates for their simplicity and clarity, some in the community find the change potentially confusing. I can see both sides...
I’ve recently been on an HTMX journey, trying to learn more about the library and slowly combining it with my expert-level knowledge of ASP.NET Core. What I’ve found along the way is that using HTMX is a powerful tool that...
HTMX is a JavaScript library designed to work with various HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE. Three out of the four methods, excluding the GET method, are meant to cause side effects and mutations on the server: update a...
I’ve been working with my new HTMX.NET library, making it easier for ASP.NET Core developers to incorporate the frontend library into their web solutions. One of the features of HTMX is defining your configuration within a meta tag.
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,...
