Microsoft released with .NET Core 3.0 the next major version of .NET Core which brings improvements to the deployment, .NET Core WPF and WinForms applications and much more. Today, I want to showca...

Together with .NET Core 3.0, Microsoft released C# 8.0. Today, I want to take a look at the new features of C# 8.0 using .NET Core 3.0. To follow along with the demo you need Visual Studio 2019 an...

In my last post, I showed how to create a build pipeline for your .net and .NET Core project. Today, I want to use one of those pipelines to verify that new pull requests didn’t break my solution a...

Automated build processes should be a no-brainer nowadays but unfortunately, I still come across quite many projects which do their builds manually. In today’s post, I want to give an introduction ...

ASP.NET core has seen rapid development in the last years. Additionally, there were some breaking changes since version 1, for example, the project.json file got removed. Unfortunately, the documen...

Tag helpers are a new feature that has been introduced in ASP.NET Core MVC and are C# classes that transform HTML elements in a view. Common uses for tag helpers include URLs for forms using the ap...

View components are a new feature in ASP.NET Core MVC which replaces the child action feature from the previous version. View components are classes which provide action-style logic to support part...

Dependency Injection is a technique that helps to create flexible applications and simplifies unit testing. .NET Core brings dependency injection out of the box, therefore you don’t have to use any...

If you have to deal with a large number of hosting environments, configuring all of them in the Startup class can become messy. In the following sections, I will describe different ways that the St...

Some configurations like the connection string usually change on every environment your application is running on. Instead of hard-coding this information into your application, ASP.NET Core enable...