A collection of 228 posts
As technology evolves and we progress as a community, I notice that older blog posts erode in their helpfulness. One of the topics I find myself constantly having to relearn, especially as an OSS author, is the ability to start...
As a developer advocate, part of my job as a developer advocate is to inspire others to work with .NET and JetBrains ReSharper and JetBrains Rider. Thus, to inspire others, I need to be inspired. So this search for creative...
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...
Sometimes, in my research, I come across helpful and great tips to keep in mind but likely wouldn’t be enough to fill a whole post. Rather than let those discoveries fade into the ether, I thought I’d compile them into...
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...
