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Enabling prerendering for Blazor WebAssembly apps
In this post I describe the steps to enable server-prerendering for a Blazor WebAssembly application. This post serves as an introduction to some more interesting prerendering approaches I'll be...
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Prerending a Blazor WebAssembly app to static files, without an ASP.NET Core...
In this post I describe how you can prerender all the pages in a Blazor WebAssembly app, without requiring a host app. That means you can still host your Blazor WebAssembly as static files using GitHub...
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Finding all routable components in a Blazor App
In my previous post I showed how you could statically prerender all the routable components in your Blazor WebAssembly app ahead-of-time so that you could host your app in static-file hosting. One of...
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Using source generators to find all routable components in a Blazor...
In the previous post I described a way to find all the "routable" components in a Blazor app using reflection. In this post I show an alternative approach using a source generator. I'm not going to...
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Using source generators to to generate a menu component in a Blazor app
In the previous post, I showed how to create a source generator that finds all the routeable components in a Blazor application at build time. In this post, I extend that approach, collecting...
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Using source generators with a custom attribute to generate a menu component...
In my previous post, I showed how to create a source generator that finds all the routeable components in a Blazor application at build time, and uses that to build a nav control, without having to...
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Configuring HTTPS using a custom TLS certificate with Netlify and Cloudflare
I recently received a notification from Netlify that there was a problem renewing the TLS certificate for one of my domains. In this post I discuss why I received that notification, and how I resolved...
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Installing Docker Desktop for Windows and WSL 2
In this post, I describe how to install WSL 2 to serve as the backend for Docker Desktop for Windows. Previously I've always worked with Linux in a Virtual Machine using something like VMWare or...
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Running Kubernetes and the dashboard with Docker Desktop
In my previous post, I showed how you can install Docker Desktop for Windows using WSL 2. In this post I show how to enable Kubernetes support, and how to deploy the Kubernetes Dashboard to give your...
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Debugging configuration values in ASP.NET Core
Recently I saw this tweet from Cecil Philip: IConfigurationRoot.GetDebugView is really useful for inspecting your resolved configuration settings! 👨🏽💻 It's been around since .NET Core 3.0 and I never...
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Viewing app configuration using Oakton's Describe command and Spectre.Console
In my previous post I showed how you could use GetDebugView() to expose a list of your application's configuration keys, values, and their source as an API endpoint. In this post I show an alternative...
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ASP.NET Core in Action, Second Edition is available now!
My new book, ASP.NET Core in Action, Second Edition is available now! In this post I describe a little bit about the process of updating the book, talk about what's changed from the first version (and...
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Viewing overwritten configuration values in ASP.NET Core
In a previous post I showed how you could create your own version of the IConfigurationRoot.GetDebugView() extension method, to visualize the configuration values in your ASP.NET Core app. In this post...
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Fixing build warning NETSSDK1138 when building projects with end-of-life .NET...
In this short post I describe how to get rid of the following build warning: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.100\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\targets\Microsoft.NET.EolTargetFrameworks.targets(28,5): warning...
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Trying out the open-source eCommerce platform nopCommerce using Docker
In this post I take a short look at the open source ASP.NET Core eCommerce platform, nopCommerce. I show the experience of building the application locally and hosting it in a Docker container. What is...
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Analyzers for ASP.NET Core in .NET 6: Exploring .NET 6 - Part 7
Analyzers have been built into the C# compiler for some time now. Anyone can write their own analyzer, distribute it as a NuGet package, and hook into the compiler to find potential code issues. In...
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Improving logging performance with source generators: Exploring .NET 6 - Part 8
In this post I look at the new LoggerMessage source generator, showing how and when to use it. I start by showing the existing ways to use ILogger, pitfalls to watch out for, and approaches to improve...
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Source generator updates: incremental generators: Exploring .NET 6 - Part 9
In the previous post, I described the LoggerMessage source generator that can give performance benefits without the boilerplate. In this post I look at the updates to the source generator API in .NET...
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New dependency injection features in .NET 6: Exploring .NET 6 - Part 10
In this post I talk about some of the new features added to Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection and Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions in .NET 6. Some of these were added to...
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[CallerArgumentExpression] and throw helpers: Exploring .NET 6 - Part 11
In this post I describe a new feature in C# 10, the [CallerArgumentExpression] attribute, how it can be used to create "throw helpers", and the addition of a throw helper to ArgumentNullException....
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