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Minimal API growing with .NET 7

To create REST API services with Microsoft .NET, the Minimal API was introduced with .NET 6 - with top-level statements based on some C# 10 features. This was great for very small services, but missed some features which are available with .NET 7. .NET...

Web API Updates with .NET 8

Preview 3 of .NET 8 includes a new project templates to create an API with a todo service instead of the weather forecast . Looking into the generated code of this template, there are a lot more changes going on such as a slim builder and using a JSON ...

Calling Web APIs using the dotnet CLI and HTTP Files with Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2022 17.5 includes new HTTP client tooling. This tool makes it easy to create API calls directly from Visual Studio, with a great output of the API results. Its easy to directly debug API invocations with this tool. Another tool which Im ...

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.

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 ...