What's the latest.NET roadmap?
Tools and links to find the current.NET roadmap, as well as view ongoing and past roadmap progress.
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.
When and How to Use Blazor Components
A quick article providing some tips on when and how you should break up content and functionality in your Blazor applications.
Avoid Proliferating DbContext or IQueryable in.NET Apps
Most.NET apps use EF Core and a DbContext for data access, but maintainability can suffer when the use of a DbContext or an IQueryable derived from it is allowed to spread throughout an application.
Top Free Tools for.NET Web API Load Testing and Benchmarking
Load testing is an important step in ensuring that a.NET web API application performs well under heavy traffic. There are several free and open-source tools available for load testing, such as Apache JMeter, Gatling, …
2022 Year in Review
A review of my online content, goals, etc. from 2022 written in early(ish) 2023.
Chrome Browser Tabs to Links
You have a bunch of tabs open from troubleshooting a problem. You just solved it! Now before closing all those tabs, copy them to links so you have them for reference when you post your answer on your blog or forum of …
Monitor Sites with Uptime Robot or Your Own Process
If you have your own web sites or apps that you maintain, it's helpful to know when they're not working. One tool I've been using for a long time is a site called Uptime Robot. Of course, with just a little bit of code …
Delete dotnet bin and obj folders recursively
Although Visual Studio and the dotnet CLI both offer clean commands, neither one really cleans up bin and obj files generated by the build process, and often things are left behind that cause problems. Here's how to …
Add All Projects to Solution with dotnet CLI
If you need to just create a new solution file with all projects in all subfolders in it, this should work for you.
Microsoft Account Azure Login Problem Resolved
In November 2022, I started having problems logging into the Azure portal with my Microsoft Account that I've had for years, and which worked elsewhere. I managed to resolve the issue finally with the help of a Microsoft …