ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET, Azure, SharePoint, IoT
Once upon a time I worked out simple file client generalization so my applications can keep files on local machine or somewhere on the cloud without changes in application code. This blog post shows how to generalize file access in web applications and provides implementations for local and cloud file clients.
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Coming to cloud with web application can be scary if it’s the first time you do it. Azure cloud is not anymore about dozen of services – it’s real monster offering more than we are able to know and learn. It’s not easy to predict what will be the final path on cloud but it is possible to tell how to get started. Here’s my advice to you.
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.NET Conf 2019 was full of great news and interesting pieces of information for those who love .NET world like me. It was specially interesting for me to watch presentation The Future of Blazor on the Client by Dan Roth who introduced on-going work with Blazor and plans for near future. Here’s my short overview with explanations about what’s going on.
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So, what is IDisposable and what is disposing of objects? This is something I teach to developers classes before they are going to their first school practice at some company. One of important concepts is disposing. Here’s my story about it.
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Do you have lightweight laptop with not very big laptop where you run Visual Studio? Do you need sometimes more space? You can make some free space if you remove .NET Core versions installed over time by updates and previews. Here’s how to do it.
Read moreBack in time I wrote series of posts about how I built simple object to object mapper. It was nine years ago and from them more things have changed. Today I added one new implementation of mapper and this one is using Roslyn compiler services to generate dynamic code for mappings.
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NHibernate has been my favorite ORM for long time. Although it’s more complex for beginners than Entity Framework it’s more matured and many developers consider it to be practially an industry standard. NHibernate works with ASP.NET Core too. This blog post shows how to use NHibernate in ASP.NET Core MVC applications.
Read moreAzure Cognitive Services is set of powerful and intelligent cloud services to analyze photos and images. This blog post shows how to create smart thumbnails using Azure cognitive services and ASP.NET Core.
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Azure CDN is one of Azure services that doesn’t provide charts and metrics in service overview page. For me these charts are important because they help me to optimize delivery of my blog artifacts. This blog post describes how I visualize Azure CDN diagnostics logs using InfluxDB, Grafana and simple data collector.
Read moreI found temporary cross-platform solution for .NET Core to read system memory metrics until framework level libraries appear. This blog post shows how to build ASP.NET Core health check for system memory metrics.
Read moreUntil .NET Core gets its own cross-platform system metrics support I needed something simple to get system memory metrics of servers where ASP.NET Core application is running. I wasn’t able to find a nice solution but I still worked out something to get system memory metrics with .NET Core on Windows and Linux.
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Building fully static web sites and blogs is possible A.D. 2019 and I tried out how it works. My goal as a tech guy was keep things lightweight and automate as much as possible. After few days of experimenting I came out with beast solution described in this series.
Read moreBefore setting up Jekyll build and release pipelines on Azure DevOps we need static website service on Azure. It’s special feature of blob storage. This blog post shows how to set up and manage Azure static website.
Read moreWe have Git repository and Azure static website set up. It’s time to connect these two with Jekyll build and release pipelines to automate publishing from our machine to static website. This part of series focuses on Jekyll build pipeline.
Read morePrevious post in series focused on setting up Jekyll build pipeline. After successful build we have new version of blog waiting for publishing in build artifacts folder. This post shows how to publish Jekyll static blog to Azure static website using Azure DevOps release pipeline.
Read moreOur Jekyll site or blog is published to Azure static website automatically using Jekyll build and release pipelines. We can access site through Azure storage URL. To go live we want to use custom domain and we need Azure CDN for this. Here is how to do it.
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Client-side Blazor supports DataAnnotations form validation out of box. It’s simple and intuitive but also very flexible – if needed we can use the same mechanism to replace DataAnnotations validation with some other validation component. This blog post introduces form validation in Blazor applications and peeks also into engine of validation mechanism.
Read more.NET Core 3.0 comes with support for self-contained executables. It means we can publish applications as a single executable for specified platform. Also trimming – removing of unused code from assemblies – is supported. This blog post demonstrates how to build self-contained executables using .NET Core.
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After finishing my writing about ASP.NET Core health checks I started finding a way how to visual health check results so I can display these on the wall mounted TV or big screen. This blog post introduces how to visualize ASP.NET Core health checks with Grafana and InfluxDB.
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Azure Functions V2 supports ASP.NET Core like dependency injection. It is specially good if we write functions that are wrappers for shared libraries and components we are also using in web and other applications of our solution. This blog post shows how to use dependency injection in Azure Functions.
Read moreIt’s time to get back to old era of this blog and bring my vCard action result to today’s ASP.NET Core world. There’s also support for images so we can provide really good looking vCards from ASP.NET Core applications. This blog post gives a good base for custom vCard solutions in ASP.NET Core.
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