What is this Directory.Packages.props file all about?
With introduction of MsBuild we can now manage all these Package Version numbers more in a single file that we can place in the Root of our solution or project files.
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How to add Tailwind CSS to Blazor website
A walk-through guide detailing the steps you can follow to configure your Blazor wasm project to use Tailwind CSS.
How to deploy a Blazor site to Netlify
A walkthrough guide on how to create a simple Balzor application and deploy it to netlify using GitHub Actions and Cake Build Script
What is Middleware in Dotnet
An introduction and exploration into understanding & implementing Middleware components into Dotnet Web based applications
How to create a WebSocket server in dotnet
A quick walkthrough guide on how to implement WebSocket end points in dotnet
How to publish Code Coverage summary reports Github actions
Learn how to generate code coverage summary reports and view them on your GitHub actions
How to manage secrets with dotnet user secrets
A walk-through on How to add and use user secrets to manage application specific secrets using the dotnet cli
How to use HttpClientFactory in dotnet
how to make use of the HttpClientFactory to implement the Typed Client pattern in dotnet.
How to do Entity Validation with EF Core
Data validation in API’s is crucial task yet is often overlooked, with Entity Framework Core entity data validation is made easier and it can also be expanded upon to provide robust solutions
Book Review: Microservices Patterns
Microservice Patterns teaches enterprise developers and architects how to build applications with the microservice architecture. This book also teaches readers how to refactor a monolithic application to a microservice architecture.
How to build Docker Containers with Cake
we will explore how we can use Cake to build and publish our Docker containers to a Docker Container Registry in this example we will be using Github Container Registry.
How to connect to databases in Rider
Improve your development workflow by connecting to your database within your IDE
Book Review: Software Architecture by Example
Design system solutions using modern architectural patterns and practices. This book discusses methods to keep a system responsive, even when it is being constantly updated, extending a system’s functionality without changing the core code, methods of maintaining data history, and designing a distributed transactional system.
What is this Directory.Build.props file all about?
With introduction of MsBuild we can now manage all these property settings and more in a single file that we can place in the Root of our solution directory along our solution file and it will be applied to all projects defined in the solution automatically.
Book Review: Dependency Injection
presents core DI patterns in plain C#, so you’ll fully understand how DI works, covers integration with standard Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET MVC, and teaches you to use DI frameworks like Structure Map, Castle Windsor, and Unity.
How to install and test nuget template packages locally
To pack a nuget package for testing locally is actually a fairly trivial process of using the dotnet pack and defining a local folder you want your package to be located.
How to use the Strategy Pattern in C#
The strategy design pattern splits the behavior (there are many behaviors) of a class from the class itself. This has some advantages, but the main draw back is that a client must understand how the Strategies differ.
Book Review: API Design Patterns
API Design Patterns lays out a set of design principles for building internal and public-facing APIs.
Book Review: Principles of Web API Design
does a great job addressing and providing the relevant information needed to deliver effective web API’s. Spoiler alert, that audience is not exclusively software developers. The information in this book will be of immense value to a number of roles in a project. Business Analyst, Product Owners, Project Managers, Quality Assurance etc.