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Should I use self-contained or framework-dependent publishing in Docker images?
ASP.NET Core has two different publishing modes, framework-dependent and self-contained. In this post I compare the impact of the publishing mode on Docker image size. I compare an image published...
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Auto-assigning issues using a GitHub Action: Creating my first GitHub app...
This is the fourth post in the series: Creating my first GitHub app with Probot. Part 1 - Creating a GitHub app with create-probot-app Part 2 - Creating the auto-assign-issues bot Part 3 - Deploying a...
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An introduction to the Data Protection system in ASP.NET Core
In this post I provide a primer on the ASP.NET Core data-protection system: what it is, why do we need it, and how it works at a high level. Why do we need the data-protection system? The...
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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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Prerendering a Blazor WebAssembly app to static files, without an ASP.NET...
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...
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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 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 Phillip: IConfigurationRoot.GetDebugView is really useful for inspecting your resolved configuration settings! 👨🏽💻 It's been around since .NET Core 3.0 and I...
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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...
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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...
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A Simple Moving Average calculator: Creating a Simple Moving Average...
This is the first post in the series: Creating a Simple Moving Average calculator in C#. Part 1 - A Simple Moving Average calculator (this post) Part 2 - Making the calculator thread-safe Part 3 -...
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Making the calculator thread-safe: Creating a Simple Moving Average...
This is the second post in the series: Creating a Simple Moving Average calculator in C#. Part 1 - A Simple Moving Average calculator Part 2 - Making the calculator thread-safe (this post) Part 3 -...
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