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Getting Started with ASP.NET Core and VS Code
I recently presented at the Windsor-Essex .NET Developers group on getting started with ASP.NET Core and VS Code. The intent was just to show how you can step outside of Visual Studio and create a...
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.NET CLI Basics
I started looking at the .NET Core CLI (Command Line Interface) a bit more over past couple weeks and figured I’d put together a blog and video covering the basics. I’m intentionally covering only the...
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Web API: Resource Model isn’t your Data Model
I was recently reminded of some troubles I had awhile ago which were caused by exposing my data model. This tweet by Mike Amundsen brought up some thoughts that I had yet to share, and why I now...
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LazyCache: Caching Service for ObjectCache
I recently blogged about in-memory caching while I was looking for a library to sit on top of .NET ObjectCache or MemoryCache. Alastair Crabtree commented on my post, suggesting I take a look at this...
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Why use Nancy?
On one of my posts showing how you can use Nancy with ASP.NET Core, David Anderson posted the following comment I came across some Nancy blogpost last week and got curious about it and so looked on...
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Fat Controller CQRS Diet: Command Pipeline
This post is in my Fat Controller CQRS Diet series demonstrating how to thin your controllers by implementing commands and queries using the MediatR library. For demonstration, I’m converting the...
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Fat Controller CQRS Diet: Notifications
This post is in my Fat Controller CQRS Diet series. It demonstrates how to thin your controllers by implementing commands and queries using the MediatR library. I’m converting the MusicStore...
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Migrating to SDK csproj
The SDK csproj files introduced with Visual Studio 2017 are a much needed improvement to the project files. If you are creating a new .NET Core project or a .NET Standard library, either with VIsual...
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.NET Video Tutorials
I’ve started a YouTube channel last year to provide some video content to many of my blog posts. I’ve never really mentioned it on this blog, which seems crazy. Primarily these are .NET Video...
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State Driven UI in ASP.NET Core MVC
In most MVC applications when rending Razor Views, I think the tendency is to use the IUrHelperl.Action inside if anchor href or form action. If you are using ASP.NET Core, maybe you are using tag...
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Zero Downtime Deployments with Octopus Deploy
If you’re using Octopus Deploy and AWS with their Elastic Load Balancer (v2) in front of EC2 instances that either self host or sit behind IIS, you can setup zero downtime deployments fairly easily....
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Troubleshooting StackOverflow Exceptions
Is your .NET application randomly crashing? In Production? Without any relevant application logs? You may be hitting a StackOverflowException if you see exception code 0xc00000fd in the event log....
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Roundup #9: Razor Email Templates, AWS Lamba .NET Core 2.1, Contract First...
Here are the things that caught my eye this week. I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week. Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Follow @codeopinion Walkthrough: Creating an...
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Roundup #10: Octopus + Containers, Converting web.config to JSON, .NET’s...
Here are the things that caught my eye this week. I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week. Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Follow @codeopinion Kubernetes, Containers,...
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Roundup #11: Solution-wide NuGet packages, REST vs. GraphQL, The Power of...
Here are the things that caught my eye this week. I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week. Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Follow @codeopinion Solution-wide Nuget...
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eShopOnContainers a Microservice based .NET Core Sample Application
Finding good sample applications if pretty difficult, if not impossible. Most are small Todo style applications that are generally very CRUD based. Thankfully Microsoft has created the...
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Roundup #16: NET Standard 2.1, Endpoint Routing, Bullseye, API Spec Workflow
Here are the things that caught my eye this week. I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week. Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Follow @codeopinion .NET Standard 2.1 This...
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Upgrading Nancy to Version 2
Although there isn’t an “official” of Nancy v2 release yet, there’ is 2.0.0-clinteastwood that’s been in NuGet since Dec 12th, 2106 and as of this post has almost 200k downloads. The primary reason...
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Practical ASP.NET Core SignalR: Server Hubs
In this section, I’m going to extend my existing ASP.NET Core application to explore more of what SignalR Server Hubs have to offer. This blog post is apart of a course that is a complete...
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Roundup #30: ProxyKit, BeeHive, Nullable Ref Types, Close Loops & Opening Minds
Here are the things that caught my eye this week in .NET. I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week. Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Follow @codeopinion ProxyKit ProxyKit...
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