A collection of 134 posts
JSON is arguably one of the most used data formats on the planet, likely due to its flexibility and human readability. We can also recognize that its two greatest strengths can also be the format’s weakness. Being human-readable gives developers...
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...
Search can be the critical difference between a good app and a great app. Although search technologies like Elasticsearch, SOLR, RedisSearch, and more options have become readily available, they still require a non-trivial amount of resources to operate and maintain....
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...
Lambda expressions are a powerful feature of the .NET stack, allowing developers to “express” an operation. Some of the most popular OSS libraries in .NET today take advantage of expressions: FluentValidation, AutoMapper, Dapper, and Marten. Library authors use expressions 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...
Source generators are a new feature of .NET 5. You may be interested in writing source generators to help remove boilerplate, improve application performance, or generally perform tasks at compile time rather than at runtime.
Redis has steadily established itself as a great choice of infrastructure in modern solutions. Redis is a data structures server, which provides an interface of commands used to interact with mutable data. Developers use Redis as a key/value store for...
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...
With each new release of C#, pattern matching improves for C# developers. While developers do not widely use pattern matching today, we’ll likely see its adoption grow as more teams and applications move from the Full Framework (.NET 4.8) to...
