Rebuilding My Windows Development Environment
This week, I decided to rebuild my development environment. I was noticing some performance and stability problems, and a fresh start was long overdue. In this post, I’ll describe the …
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New Talk: Developing Flexible Authorisation Capabilities in ASP NET Core
This year at NDC Melbourne I presented; Developing Flexible Authorisation Capabilities with ASP.NET Core: ASP.NET Core Identity supports the essentials for authentication and authorisation across many application types such as …
Essential Visual Studio IDE Extensions
For daily development, Visual Studio 2022 IDE is my weapon of choice. While the default feature set is amazing, it can be enhanced further by using the right extensions. With …
Launch Windows Terminal in Visual Studio
Modern development has seen a resurgence of command-line tools. On a daily basis, I use Git CLI, .NET CLI, Azure CLI, and GitHub CLI (to name a few). All developers …
Create GitHub Environments using PowerShell
GitHub deployment environments are used to describe a general deployment target such as development or production. Currently, there are two ways to manage environments – using GitHub.com (see Settings > …
API Key Authentication with ASP.NET Core
API key authentication uses an API key to authenticate the client of an HTTP-based API. An API key is a unique identifier or secret token that is provided to the …
Clean Architecture Solution Template for Blazor WebAssembly
This week I released a new solution template to support creating Blazor WebAssembly applications hosted on ASP.NET Core and following the principles of Clean Architecture. With this new template, my …
Console App Project Template for .NET 7
In a previous blog post Developing Console Apps with .NET, I demonstrated how to develop command-line programs from scratch including support for built-in help, arguments, configuration, logging, dependency injection, and …
Rapidly Adding New Files in Visual Studio
Visual Studio provides numerous ways to add new files such as the New File and Add New Item dialogs. In the post I will provide an overview of those approaches, …
Developing Console Apps with .NET
It can be useful to create console apps to support backend processes such as data anonymisation or batch processing. This post demonstrates how to develop console apps in .NET, including …