My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Abandoning the Consumer space

October 02, 2017
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That Microsoft is an enterprise company is evident in its quarterly reports, its revenues are derived almost ...

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Razor Pages - An easier way to start web development

September 18, 2017
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For those of you old enough to remember Web Forms it represented a relatively straightforward way for drag and drop ...

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Finding the Process ID for your Application Pool

September 12, 2017
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At least a couple of times a month I am asking a developer to supply me a hang dump of some process that is not ...

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In-Memory Cache with ASP.NET Core

September 06, 2017
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One of the challenges of any old Web Forms application is that it encouraged you to overlap concerns and abstractions. ...

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Generate a Class from JSON

August 13, 2017
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The work in replacing the UI layer for DasBlog has forced me to create rather large appsettings.json file, it has taken ...

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ASP.NET Core Web–Current Principle

August 09, 2017
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As I start integrating ASP.NET Core Web with the business layer of DasBlog I came across some code that started ...

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Creating Themes for ASP.NET Web Core

July 30, 2017
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I continue to explore ASP.NET Core through the lens of DasBlog, I am finding it fascinating to juxtapose how problems ...

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AddIISUrlRewrite - From Web Forms to Web Core

July 18, 2017
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I have a lot of Web Forms knowledge, I mean a lot … and while no one will say Web Forms is dead, I think it would be ...

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Checking Compatibility with the .NET Standard

July 05, 2017
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After finally understanding what the .NET Standard is and why we need it, the next thing I wanted to do was investigate ...

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