Contributing to .NET for Dummies
Over the past few months in the little spare time that I have, I've managed to submit a handful of pull requests to various .NET-related repositories »
Extending Tag Helpers in ASP.NET Core Applications
A few days ago, I was answering questions on Stack Overflow when I came across one that I thought might be relevant to share with others »
"Secret" Productivity Tips for Visual Studio 2017
I've written a few blog posts thus far regarding Visual Studio 2017, so I thought I would take some time to discuss of the features that »
The Path is Null and Full of Squiggles
I've been using Visual Studio 2017 since the earliest bits were available and I can confidently say, I'm a fan and highly recommend you give it »
Sharing is Caring: Using Shared Projects in ASP.NET
As software developers, copy-pasting some code or a few files and having it in multiple places has always been smelly. There are several different avenues that »
Page the Doctor! When Entity Framework Paging Goes Rogue!
Over the past few months, Entity Framework has decided to seemingly go renegade and ruin my days, especially with clients that have been running older versions »
Using ASP.NET Core Javascript Services to Play Nice with Client-side Frameworks
Developing a web application today is probably one of the best times to ever do so, at least, if you can figure out how to get »
Accessing SQL from Entity Framework Core Queries in ASP.NET Core
ORMs like Entity Framework have always been shrouded in a bit of controversy from SQL purists who aren't in control of the types of queries that »
Bundling and Minifying in ASP.NET Core Applications
No one likes an application or site that loads slowly. Thankfully, as developers, there are things that we can do to help mitigate load times and »
Extending MVC Controllers from External Assemblies and Projects
Recently, a question was asked on Stack Overflow regarding how to go about extending an existing ASP.NET MVC Controller that was present within another assembly »