Over the last few weeks, the Clean Architecture Solution Template has had a pretty significant overhaul. What started as a round of dependency updates snowballed into rethinking several core parts of the template. Here's a summary of the highlights from v10.1.0 through v10.8.0. New
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 steps I used to rebuild my system, and the changes I made along the way to ensure future
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 web, API, and mobile. With Identity, authorisation is a breeze! Developers can implement authorisation checks using numerous methods
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 nearly 2,000 extensions to choose from, we are spoilt for choice! In this blog post, I'll share
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 should learn to embrace the CLI, not only to improve their productivity but also to gain access to better and
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 > Environments) or using the GitHub REST API. If you would like to automate the management of environments, such as
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 API using many mechanisms, such as through the query string, request header, or as a cookie. ASP.NET Core does
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 primary goal was to be able to go from a new project to production in 45 minutes. To this
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 more. Rather than repeating this process for every new console app, I decided to build a brand new .NET 7
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, along with my preferred approach for rapidly adding new files in Visual Studio. New File dialog The New File dialog
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 support for built-in help, arguments, configuration, logging, dependency injection, and more. Create a new app Create a new console app
OpenAPI is a language-agnostic specification for documenting RESTful APIs. It allows both humans and computers to understand the capabilities of a service without accessing code, docs, or using other methods. Hosted Blazor WebAssembly apps include an ASP.NET Core backend for file and API access, and so implementing support for
.NET
In this post, I will demonstrate strategies for database initialisation during early and late development stages. The focus is on productively and effectively leveraging EF Core and its built-in capabilities for keeping your data model and database schema in sync. Automatic Initialisation First, the application should be configured to automatically
Angular
Angular 9 has just been released and includes a number of major improvements. Be sure to check the official announcement to learn more. If like me you build single page apps with ASP.NET Core and Angular you will be keen to upgrade. This post details the steps required to
.NET Core
Over the past two years, I've travelled the world teaching programmers how to build enterprise applications using Clean Architecture with .NET Core. I started by providing a sample solution using the iconic Northwind Traders database. Recently, I've developed a new Clean Architecture Solution Template for .NET
Angular
The recently released ASP.NET Core 2.2 includes many improvements such as updated SPA templates. The templates can be used to build single page apps with Angular 6 + Angular CLI or React 16 + Create React App. These templates come configured with Bootstrap 4. This post will cover getting started,
Angular
This is the third in a series of posts on Building Single Page Applications with ASP.NET Core 2.1 and Angular 6. The previous post provided instructions to upgrade to the latest version of Bootstrap. This post outlines the steps required to implement Open API. Open API, formally known
Angular
This is the second in a series of posts on building Single Page Applications with ASP.NET Core 2.1 and Angular 6. The previous post covered numerous getting started topics such as creating a new app and upgrading to Angular 6. This post outlines the steps required to upgrade
Angular
This is the first in a new series of posts on building Single Page Applications with ASP.NET Core 2.1 and Angular 6. There have been major improvements to both frameworks, so this is a good time to have a fresh look. This post covers the prerequisites, demonstrates how
Angular
This is the second in a series of posts about building Single Page Applications with ASP.NET Core 2.0. In this post, I'll show you how to upgrade to Angular 5. In the previous post (Part 1: Create a SPA) I showed you how to create a
Angular
This is the first in a series of posts about building Single Page Applications with ASP.NET Core. As a developer, keeping up with the latest technologies is not always easy! Thankfully, creating a Single Page Application (SPA) with ASP.NET Core 2.0 is a breeze. In this post,
Software Development
Microsoft offers a large selection of professional certifications and exams focused on their core technologies. Often I have encountered developers who hold the opinion that these exams are not useful since they learn a lot more by using the technologies at work. In my experience, this is simply not true!
Software Development
Code reviews, also known as peer reviews or code walkthroughs, are an effective way of identifying defects and sharing knowledge. A code review takes place when a programmer engages a peer to review their work, in much the same way a peer might review a report before it is submitted
Entity Framework Core
I recently had the opportunity to talk on Simplified Unit Testing with the EF Core InMemory Provider. I presented at the Canberra, Sydney, and Brisbane .NET User Groups; and will be presenting again in Melbourne on the 11th of July 2017. Presenting the same talk numerous times and discussing the