A collection of 235 posts
A general fog of “I hate JavaScript” hovers over the .NET development shops worldwide. While it’s understandable that JavaScript can sometimes be annoying, it has grown significantly recently. One of the areas more ASP.NET Core developers should take note of...
I was scrolling the Mastodon timeline when I noticed a fellow .NET developer, Bill Seipel, having an unexpected experience with List.ForEach and async/await. At first glance, I thought he was modifying the collection he was iterating over, but then I...
With the release of .NET 8, one killer feature will immediately increase the responsiveness of your APIs and Blazor applications: the ability to stream responses. Yes, you could stream responses before, but it’s never been easier with support for IAsyncEnumerable...
Markdown is a powerful writing format with simplicity at its core. It’s no surprise that it is as popular as it is since it can help authors focus more on the art of writing rather than the aesthetics of their...
The nuances of data access are myriad, so when writing tests around complex data scenarios, I recommend just working with the actual database. Over time, you’ll find yourself with more valuable tests but, often, relatively slower tests compared to their...
Recently, I’ve been focusing on the front-end side of building web applications with topics like React Hooks and Angular Signals. It’s a fascinating data model that can make working with data dependency graphs much more straightforward.
Search is an essential part of any modern application. Without a first-class emphasis on great search, many applications aren’t much better than a spreadsheet. Luckily for application developers, we’re spoiled for options for delivering an excellent search experience to our...
Let’s face it, regular expressions are powerful and can be an immense pain in the butt to write. While crafting a regular expression to perform any input recognition is possible, it becomes exceedingly difficult when the matching rules require more...
Templating is a common approach to separating logic from presentation, and many options exist within the .NET ecosystem. The most popular is the Razor engine used by ASP.NET Core, but it currently has some dependencies that make it difficult to...
As Zoolander villain Mugato might say if he were a .NET developer, “Ahead of Time (AOT) compilation is so hot right now.” AOT is one of the focuses of the .NET 8 release, with a lot of attention given to...
