Blog Posts

A quick article providing some tips on when and how you should break up content and functionality in your Blazor applications.

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.

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, …

A review of my online content, goals, etc. from 2022 written in early(ish) 2023.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

If you need to just create a new solution file with all projects in all subfolders in it, this should work for you.

Scaling Redis using a Redis Cluster or ScaleOut Software's In-Memory Datebase.