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Installing Visual Studio 2022

Installing Visual Studio 2022

If you're a .NET developer, there is no other tool more powerful than Visual Studio's IDE. Today, with the new release of VS 2022 from Monday, I review my experience of installing VS 2022.

Assembly Encapsulation with Dependency Injection

Assembly Encapsulation with Dependency Injection

Once again, our guest blogger, Andrew Hinkle provides an enlightening post about how to use dependency injection with an assembly containing internals

How to implement Swagger with Authorization

How to implement Swagger with Authorization

In today's post, our guest blogger Andrew Hinkle explains how to secure the interactive part of Swagger using authorization techniques

Real-World Refactoring: Available Cars

Real-World Refactoring: Available Cars

Are all of those if..then statements really necessary? In today's post, we look at refactoring a long list of if..then statements into an easy two-liner.

Quick Tip: How to Load ViewComponents in Razor Pages

Quick Tip: How to Load ViewComponents in Razor Pages

What do you mean 400 error? In today's quick tip, we examine how to load ViewComponents through Razor Pages using JavaScript

6 Reasons To Use ViewComponents in ASP.NET 5

6 Reasons To Use ViewComponents in ASP.NET 5

When using ASP.NET ViewComponents, there's a number of benefits to make your application more modular. Today, we review those benefits based on experience.

Using Pinned Tabs in your Browser as a Dashboard

Using Pinned Tabs in your Browser as a Dashboard

Inspired by a tweet, today's post presents a way to take your pinned tabs and use them as a dashboard or command center

Creating a Dynamic Dialog System with Bootstrap and ASP.NET 5

Creating a Dynamic Dialog System with Bootstrap and ASP.NET 5

With the anniversary of Bootstrap next month, today's post explains how to take a modal and make it more dynamic using ViewComponents

Hard Work + Kindness = Luck (or opportunity)

Hard Work + Kindness = Luck (or opportunity)

Today, I recap an event in my past where my hard work and kindness produced an opportunity I couldn't turn down.

Microsoft Identity Claims in ASP.NET Core: OperationAuthorization Requirement

Microsoft Identity Claims in ASP.NET Core: OperationAuthorization Requirement

I didn't know this existed until a reader made me aware of it. Today, we update the menu systems with Microsoft Identity using the OperationAuthorizationRequirement