Although Blazor is in early stages of development it is already good enough to try out and play with it. As a logical continuation to my previous experiment where I made Blazor application use Azure Functions based back-end. I made it also support Azure AD authentication on web application and back-end level. This blog post introduces my work on Blazor and Azure AD.

About year ago I wrote a blog post Running PHP applications on .NET Core where I introduced how to build PHP applications to .NET Core using Peachpie. Their showcase was WordPress – the famous blog engine that also runs my blog. Peachpie guys have made significant work over year and they have reached the point where whole WordPress is built as .NET Core application.

My previous blog post was an introduction to static website hosting on Azure Storage. This post focuses on how to deploy Blazor application as a Azure static website and how to use Azure Functions as a server back-end for Blazor application.

Azure has new and interesting service for hosting static sites on blob storage. There is no additional server-side application hosting account needed to run public static sites – they run straight from blob storage. Although the service is in public preview, it is time to find out how it works and when we should consider using it.

ASP.NET Core 2.1 introduces Razor UI class libraries that allow us to share UI artifacts with libraries and NuGet packages. One of first official packages delivered with UI pieces is ASP.NET Core Identity. This blog post shows how to override default views of ASP.NET Core Identity by using scaffolding.

ASP.NET Core has thin but rich and powerful built-in dependency injection mechanism we can use to inject instances to controllers and some other parts of web applications. Although constructor injection is the most famous dependency injection method for controllers there is also dependency injection to controller actions available. This post introduces controller action injection and shows how to benefit from it.

Remote Desktop is great thing when it works but with Windows 10 I usually see one problem after another. I decided to write up some tricks I need pretty often when RDP is going crazy on some Windows 10 box. Nothing special but I hope I save some people hours of time on trying out different tricks found in internet.

ASP.NET Core 2.1 introduces new application host for Windows services. We can now run ASP.NET Core applications as Windows services with minimal effort. This blog post introduces how it is done and how to build and run Windows services on ASP.NET Core without any need for dirty hacks.

Previous versions of Entity Framework Core doesn’t support database level grouping and LINQ GroupBy is translated locally. Entity Framework Core 2.1 translates LINQ GroupBy to database query in most of cases. Here is the example.

There are scenarios where developers want to add attributes to backing field of automated property. It was hard to do before C# 7.3. Now it is supported in Visual Studio and solution is simple. This blog post shows how to add attribute to backing field of automated property.