A collection of 243 posts
While never sold as an outright replacement for ASP.NET Core MVC, ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs are bound to have developers asking, “Which one should I use?” The answer depends on your use case, but in reality, you can use all...
We all have a few trusty packages we install right away when starting a new project, installed reflexively as a side effect of hard-fought knowledge from coding in the real world. But, while there’s a lot of collective experience on...
Recently, a follower on Twitter asked how they could store “dynamic” user data using Entity Framework Core. Dynamic in the sense that you may not know what the key/value pairs of data will be but they’re still important to store,...
Changes in the C# language allow us to write more concise code than ever before, and it’s fun to see what solutions developers write. In this short but fun post, I’ll be writing a method that takes in an int...
C# 9 introduced us to records, a new way to define data structures with increased readability and usability in specific scenarios. While they may look like structs or classes, they offer an opportunity to reduce boilerplate code and potentially allow...
I’ve found Twitter is a great way to engage with the .NET community as a whole. Engaging in discussions, sharing ideas and inspiration, and even disagreeing can be a fun part of being part of the tech community. That said,...
Most relational databases are a modern marvel, with many features waiting for you to use. However, for .NET developers, you often need to discover methods to get data into and out of our database instances that work for our use...
The ASP.NET team built ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs to help developers build more concise and efficient web APIs. The approach has fewer features in favor of improved resource utilization and higher request throughput. One of the features to be “removed”...
The release of .NET 6 unleashed a wave of ASP.NET Core goodies on the development community. Some features received much attention, while some flew silently under the radar. One of the features I recently discovered was CSS isolation and JavaScript...
Have you ever needed the results of a method in an instance, but not have the required dependencies to instantiate the object? If you answered yes, let me start by saying you’re a weirdo, a good weirdo, but still a...
