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You’ve spent the better part of a year building your site with hopes of positive community interaction. You deploy your application feeling you’ve accomplished something great. Days later, you realize that your community site has become flooded with horrible advertisements...
It’s almost 2020, and as we approach the future that many of our favorite science fiction movies could only imagine, we hope that technology can save us from dystopian dependency hell. I know I’m dramatic, but in this post, I’ll...
It’s 2019, and no one can argue that to be a successful developer, you need a couple of tools in your toolbox. For ASP.NET developers, they can build web applications and run Kestrel as a web server. For front end...
What a time to be alive, friends. As developers, we have a lot of options at our disposal when building a “modern” web application. Personally, when developing software, I like to consider all the tools available to me, but I...
When working with any technology, I want to take advantage of everything that makes that technology unique. SQL Server is a powerful technology, but features can hide behind abstractions created by developers.
If you make your living as a software developer, you undoubtedly have had to deal with databases. In my case, I primarily work with Microsoft SQL Server and specifically the Windows Azure permutation. For simple applications, you may find Object...
One of my favorite features of modern web development is Middleware. Middleware is a powerful abstraction that can encapsulate your intent, enrich an incoming request, enhance an outgoing response, or do all the above. Once you embrace Middleware as a...
When we think about programming, we usually think about well-intentioned systematic instructions executing when and how we intended. In a digital world of One’s and Zero’s, the idea of randomness is madness. In the real world, randomness is a necessary...
With ASP.NET Core, developers have several new tools to build their web applications. One feature that I am incredibly excited about is request features.
Data formats are an essential part of any programming toolbox. C# developers must understand how to take plain-old-C#-objects (POCOs) and convert them into standard data formats. The .NET community commonly refers to the conversion of data objects as serialization.
