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There's a new feature in ASP.NET Core that reduces some of the overhead when protecting yourself against CSRF attacks.
09/17/2019
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If you want, you can centralize the configuration of your HttpClient objects into your Startup class. You’ll also save yourself some typing when you use an HttpClient.
09/16/2019
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You need to change the way you use HttpClient to keep your application from failing. And, if you're using ASP.NET Core, there's a tool that makes it considerably easier to do the right thing
09/12/2019
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You can create Blazor components by combining other Blazor components but you'll almost certainly need to share data between those components. Here are all the options currently open to you.
08/30/2019
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ASP.NET Core allows you to create Web Services based on gRPC ... which raises two questions: "What is gRPC?" and "Does it ever make sense to use it?" Here are Peter's answers.
08/28/2019
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Sometimes it's just cool to take a walk through some technology to find all the different ways you can solve a problem -- sort of "Fun with the .NET Framework." Here's a look at all the ways that Peter could think of to update an object in a collection ... some of which may be foolish.
08/07/2019
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While the concept of "service classes" probably has some value when it comes to organizing the objects you're dealing with, the idea of a "service layer" has no value at all when it comes to building applications.
07/26/2019
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You have two tools for generating your initial UI in a Blazor component: ASP.NET's Razor and Blazor's RenderFragment. Here's how to use both to integrate with your C# code (and a warning about what you can't do).
07/22/2019
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The beauty of a tag helper is it's ability to add new HTML to your page. Once you know what you want to change, here are the tools to change the HTML going to the user.
06/25/2019
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You can create your own custom tag helpers ... but it's a lot easier if you understand the process that tag helpers need to go through. Here are your options when gathering the data that a tag helper needs (and why they can't completely replace HtmlHelpers).
06/20/2019
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Whenever you have repeated HTML, you should be creating your own tag helpers to simplify your views. Here's how flexible tag helpers can be when you go to integrate them into your page.
06/18/2019
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Several new time-saving keystroke combinations were recently detailed by Kendra Havens, program manager for .NET and Visual Studio, in a Channel 9 video presentation. Here's a roundup of the new stuff, along with old favorites, and a list of other productivity resources.
06/06/2019
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The Exception object has both a Message property and a ToString method and they return different results. Both are good, just not for the purposes that Microsoft suggests (at least, in Peter's opinion).
06/03/2019
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There's not a lot that's new in Views in ASP.NET Core, but here's one new feature that will make your Views more flexible.
05/31/2019
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Peter's beginning a self-improvement course in using regular expressions, at least when doing searches in Visual Studio. As part of achieving that goal, he's decided that the Find Files option is his new bestest friend.
05/30/2019
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Here are three different ways to dynamically build a string out of constant text and variable values.
05/29/2019
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You press F5 and, instead of launching your application, Visual Studio finds a syntax error. Skip the stupid question and go right to fixing your code.
05/08/2019
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Blazor on the Server is coming with .NET Core Version 3.0 in the second half of 2019. Here's what Peter thinks of that (and he's not completely happy).
04/30/2019
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Microsoft has some best practices around handling exceptions. With respect, Peter disagrees with their recommendation.
04/26/2019
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When it comes to retrieving the object sent to you by a Web Service, there's an easy way to do it and a hard way to do it. The problem is that the easy way is hard to get.
04/25/2019
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Eric Vogel kicks off his series on ASP.NET Core security by showing how to set up authentication to register, log in and log out a user account in an ASP.NET Core MVC application.
04/24/2019
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.NET Core provides a framework that logging systems can be snapped into. However, what's most important about this framework is how you write your messages out. It's the quality of the message that will let you find where your problems are.
04/18/2019
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ExpandoObjects let you dynamically add members to your object at run time -- a great way to handle scenarios where you need a lot of flexibility. But how do you work with an object when you don't know the names of its properties?
04/16/2019
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ASP.NET Core has a more sophisticated way of finding the right layout View for your View. It does that by distinguishing between "local" and "global" Views. You can take advantage of this to simplify your life.
04/04/2019
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You can give your users the ability to store any data they want, including stuff they make up at run time, by using an ExpandoObject. In fact, when you don't know what your data is until run time (and you can live without IntelliSense), an ExpandoObject is your best solution.
04/01/2019