ASP.NET

Although there are many examples available demonstrating Blazor views it is also possible to separate code and presentation by using Razor pages with backing model. This blog post is based on my Blazor presentation and focuses on separating code and presentations of Blazor pages.

Creating PDF-files on ASP.NET Core has been issue for awhile. I needed some proof-of-concept solution to prove it’s possible to generate PDF-files on ASP.NET Core easily without writing a lot of code or going through complex configuration. I solved the problem and here is my solution.

Next version of ASP.NET Core is getting better and better and with it we can use new tooling for Blazor applications announced yesterday at official ASP.NET blog. Blazor is Microsoft tooling to build WebAssembly applications using .NET languages. This blog post is short introduction to Blazor tooling and WebAssembly.

ASP.NET Core supports culture based views for more complex localizations. It means we have one view per culture per controller action. This blog post shows how to use culture based views in ASP.NET Core and how to implement them.

Most of requests to controller actions of our ASP.NET Core applications send some simple parameters or some serialized model objects. But this is not always the case. There are also those requests we don’t want to map to models but we need the request body to process, save or use it some other ways. This blog post shows how to read request body in ASP.NET Core controller action.

Tag helpers are classes that can be applied to HTML and special tags in ASP.NET Core views. They are addition to HTML helper extension methods and they provide more flexibility by having their own classes and supporting framework level dependency injection. This blog post demonstrates how to create tag helper to support displaying paged results in ASP.NET Core views.

Microsoft announced roadmap for upcoming release of .NET Core family versioned as .NET Core 2.1. While there are some new features and many improvements coming I compiled a list of my favorites that I see as most imortant to all developers building solutions on .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core.

Paging of data in ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core applications is timeless topic. It is invented over and over again and asked all the time in forums all over the world. Years ago I worked out kind of universal solution with reusable UI artifacts and I’m using these pieces this far. As ASP.NET Core is gaining more and more popularity I decided to start my sample solution with .NET Core and add full ,NET Framework and ASP.NET MVC 5 support later if asked.

My previous blog post introduced how to make ASP.NET Core 2 web application run on Windows 10 IoT Core. It was default web application created on Visual Studio and published as an executable. But this is not enough for IoT scenarios. When we build web application that runs on IoT board we need this application to do something. Be it displaying sensor data or controlling some hardware. This blog post shows how to make Windows 10 IoT background task talk with web application using WebSocket.

It has been problematic to run ASP.NET Core applications on Windows 10 IoT Core as it is not officially supported scenario yet and many components we are used with are not built with Windows 10 ARM in mind. Still it easy to run web applications on Windows 10 IoT Core using ASP.NET Core 2. There are few tricks developers should know when building web applications for Windows 10 IoT Core. This blog post is short guide about ASP.NET Core 2 on Windows 10 IoT Core