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Whats the SynchronizationContext used for?

Creating Windows applications, UI controls are bound to the UI thread. .NET made it to different iterations with different patterns dealing with asynchronous programming. .NET 4.0 introduced the Task Parallel Library (TPL) and C# 5 added the async and ...

No more Dockerfiles with the help of .NET CLI

This article shows how to use dotnet publish to create a Docker image without using a Dockerfile - including deployment with GitHub Actions.

Using MySQL in a Docker container with EF Core

Running MySQL in a Docker container, and accessing it from EF Core

Thrive Conference in Slovenia

The last time the [Thrive conference](https://thriveconf.com) was held was in 2019. Now its happening again May, 24-25 2022 in Bistrica, Slovenia. Im excited to give two presentations and a one-day workshop. Are you attending in-person?

Creating a Windows Service with .NET 6

Windows services are programs that are automatically started when the system starts up, or when the user logs in. They run in the background and can run with a different account than the logged-in user. .NET makes it easy to create Windows services or ...

Upgrading an ASP.NET Core Web API Project to .NET 6

Upgrading an ASP.NET Core 5 application to .NET 6, all what needs to be done is to change the project file for .NET 6, and update the NuGet packages to the new versions, and youre done and can build and run the application. However, to take advantage o...

C# Nullable Features thru the times

Exceptions of type NullReferenceException are the most common errors with .NET applications. With C# 8, nullable reference types have been introduced to get rid of these exceptions. The new .NET 6 and C# 10 project templates turn on nullable reference ...

Using Azure Active Directory B2C with .NET

Azure Active Directory B2C (business-to-consumer) is a version of the Azure Active Directory that allows users (consumers) to register with the application. This article shows how to create an ASP.NET Core application to use this great Azure service.

Temporal Tables with EF Core 6

Temporal tables keep changes of updates and deletes with specific tables. This is a feature of SQL Server since SQL Server 2016. Without using this feature from SQL Server, with EF Core often the behavior when saving objects was overridden to keep the ...