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With .NET 8 on the horizon, Minimal APIs continues to grow its offerings, slowly providing a similar feature set to the frameworks before, including ASP.NET Core MVC and Razor Pages. I was surprised when someone in the community (👋 Hi...
While code is inarguably the bedrock of any software application, it’s not the only thing necessary to deliver a user experience. Whether you’re building a website, desktop application, or mobile app, you’ll likely need non-code assets. These assets include images,...
Taking a .NET collection and displaying the items in a human-readable format is something we all ultimately have to tackle in our applications. While we could spit out values uniformly separated by a character, that’s a very uncivilized approach. I’ll...
The Model-View-Controller pattern is so common that every technology stack has an implementation of it. ASP.NET developers have been working with the pattern since 2009. Here are a few other things popular in 2009 to remind you of your rapid...
In a perfect world, you’d have to write zero JsonConverter classes, as all JSON data would serialize and deserialize as expected. Unfortunately, we live in a world where folks make bespoke formatting decisions that can boggle the mind. For folks...
One of the more fun aspects of working with any programming language is writing code you probably shouldn’t. Why write something clever when doing the unexpected can help give you a new appreciation of what’s possible? As a bonus, now...
Multi-tenancy is a complex topic with a generally understood definition, yet the devil is in the details. From a high level, Multi-tenancy is the idea that a single codebase can support many users in what they perceive as unique-to-them silos....
I maintain an open-source project called ConsoleTables. It’s a silly little project meant to help you take a collection of data and quickly dump it into your terminal session. I started the project so long ago that the reason I...
When it comes to BUSINESS, Microsoft Office file formats reign supreme, and if you’re a software developer, you’ll inevitably be asked to convert data into one of the Office formats; it’s a law (look it up). Luckily for all of...
Many of us take for granted the existence of ASP.NET Core to access HTTP in the .NET world. It’s the foundation for most web implementations in the .NET space and provides functionality for all the programming paradigms in the ASP.NET...
