Tracking Tasks in Visual Studio
I was recently mentoring a client remotely who was using Visual
Blog Posts
MANY articles on a wide array of topics. You’ll find a lot of my newer content is going to my YouTube channel first, but I do still blog occasionally.
Working Through Roadblocks - A Guide for New Programmers
This is advice that I have given to many novice developers, and that I would like to have been able to give to myself when I just getting started (though some of the advice refers to resources that didn't exist then - …
ASPNET Core Razor Pages – Worth Checking Out?
You may have heard that in ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0, there is a new
Using MediatR in ASPNET Core Apps
If you haven't used MediatR before, or if you're looking for a
Breakpoint Labels in Visual Studio
Breakpoints offer a great way to debug our software, letting us literally stop time during code execution and inspect what’s going on at that moment. It’s a bit like being a speedster like Quicksilver, who …
Troubleshooting Razor Pages and PageModel Classes
When using the new Razor Pages feature in ASP.NET Core 2.0, you can
Debugging ASPNET Core Routes
Routing in ASP.NET MVC apps has often presented challenges to
Entity Framework Core String Interpolation FromSQL
String interpolation is one of my favorite features in C# 6. It lets us replace this kind of code: Console.WriteLine("{0} had a balance of {1}", customer.Name, customer.Balance); with this: …
Logging and Monitoring are Requirements
It's common in many applications to see logging and monitoring