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Professional C# and .NET – 2021 Edition

The new edition of my book is available – covering .NET, C#, WinUI, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and more! Compared to the previous edition, it not only covers the newest editions of C# and .NET, y…

C# 8 Updates

Bonus chapter for Professional C# 7 and .NET Core 2 with updates for C# 8: nullable reference types, using declaration, readonly members, default interface members, async streams, switch expressions, pattern matching enhancements, indices and ranges, a...

Local Users with ASP.NET Core – ASP.NET Core Identity

Authentication and authorization is a built-in feature of ASP.NET Core. Creating an application, you can select to authenticate with the Azure Active Directory or the Azure Active Directory B2C, or store user information in a local database with the We...

How Hello World! changed – top level statements and functions

C# 9 comes with many new features to enhance productivity and fix bugs. One productivity enhancement comes for small and simple programs also helps learning C#: top level statements. This also allows for a new way to create a "Hello World" program with...

How Hello World! changed – top level statements and functions (C# 9)

C# 9 comes with many new features to enhance productivity and fix bugs. One productivity enhancement comes for small and simple programs also helps learning C#: top level statements. This also allows for a new way to create a "Hello World" program with...

Its all in the Host Class – Part 2: Configuration

.NET Core gives flexible options to configure app settings. The Host class has DI, configuration, and logging built-in. Lets look into the configuration part of the Host class.

Microsoft Build 2020 – Highlights

This Microsoft Build 2020 conference was very different from all the previous ones as a digital experience event because of the COVID-19 Coronavirus. Microsoft made it a great experience - with announcements on Microsoft Azure, .NET 5, Windows, and mor...

Azure App Configuration: Configuration of .NET Applications

In older solutions I’ve created a service that returns all the different configurations used by different projects in a solution, …

Its all in the Host Class – Dependency Injection with .NET

In the first article of this series, dependency injection is introduced, and Im showing how a dependency injection container can be created with the Host class.