As General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now official in European Union (EU) there’s also some basic support for it included in ASP.NET Core 2.1. Althouhg it’s not possible to come out with technical etalon for GDPR there’s still some good starting points available in ASP.NET Core. Here is the brief overview.

When I wrote user interface for my TemperatureStation solution I faced some bad problems with Entity Framework Core when trying to query base type and get some navigation properties of derived types included. I was able to come out with some work-arounds that were far from being satisfying for me. Include for derived types in Entity Framework Core solves the problem.

ASP.NET Core 2.1 introduces Razor Class Library (RCL). It’s the new way how to share reusable web application components with UI as dependent project or NuGet package. As public examples mostly cover how it works with Razor Pages, I decided to write this blog post and demo application for ASP.NET Core MVC.

One of new features introduced by C# 7.0 is support for pattern matching in switch statements. It’s like mix of switch and if statements so we don’t have to nest these two. This blog post introduces pattern matching in switch statements and shows what C# compiler produces of switch statements.

Computer Vision API of Azure Cognitive Services can be used to analyze and describe images. It’s rich API that supports also faces and landmarks recognition, not to mention automatic describing and tagging of images. This blog post shows how to use image analyzing features of Azure Cognitive Services.

Bundling and minification has been available in ASP.NET MVC for a long time. This blog post focuses on problems people have had with bundling and provides working solutions for those who cannot use bundling in ASP.NET MVC for different reasons. Also some ideas about more effective bundling are presented here.

Blazor supports communication with JavaScript using JavaScript interop. I used JavaScript interop in Blazor when building confirm delete dialog of my Blazor demo application. This blog post shows how to interact with JavaScript code from Blazor and how to build interactive dialogs.

Azure Cognitive Services has wider audience than cool young guys developing very cool mobile apps. These services can be used in very different use cases. This blog post shows how to use Azure Cognitive Services to automatically describe and tag photos added to Office 365 SharePoint picture library.

One small change that comes with C# 7.2 is support for non-trailing named arguments in method calls. This post explains what are non-trailing named arguments, how to use them and how they look after compiling.

Blazor supports dependency injection similar to what we have in ASP.NET Core. Also view injection is supported. This writing introduces dependency injection in Blazor and provides working code samples about it.