In a previous ASP.NET Core Web API Tutorial, I mentioned how the new ASP.NET Core Web API Project Template for .NET 5 Framework includes the addition of Swashbuckle.AspNetCore to generate an OpenAPI Specification Document as well as a Swagger UI to explore and test the web API. This works in tandem with a new feature introduced in Visual Studio 2019 that allows you to publish the web API to Azure...

See the improvements of the Media Field, the new full_text Liquid Filter, the enhancements of the admin UI, and many more in our upcoming post!

If you're a Microsoft developer using EF Core, you are probably really excited about the new feature in EF Core 5 that makes creating many-to-many relationships super simple! Many-to-many relationships in EF Core 5 work intuitively now, so if you have installed the .NET 5 SDK or Visual Studio 2019 16.9 preview 1 you can test the new feature pretty quickly from a .NET Core Console Application...

ASP.NET Core 5 was just released and it includes a number of new features. Earlier I mentioned the built-in support for OpenAPI and Swagger UI via Swashbuckle in the new ASP.NET Core 5 Web API Project Template. Another new feature is improved model binding to support C# 9 record types. The C# 9 record type is perfect for use as data transfer objects where immutability is valuable. Using them for...

Earlier I blogged about two new features in C# 9: C# 9 Init-Only Properties and C# 9 Record Type. Another feature in C# 9 that I didn't originally plan on writing about is top-level programs. However, top-level programs do simplify sharing sample code on a blog by removing boilerplate code and nesting. Therefore, I'll probably be using it quite a bit on my blog. What are Top-Level Programs in C#...

This week we will see the new IDocumentStore, which is a cacheable, committable, and cancellable document store allowing to get documents from a shared cache. And don't forget to watch a demo about how you can add an alt text and crop the images of your Media Field!

Blazing Orchard is a modular application framework that turns your Blazor project into a CMS-powered Blazor application by leveraging Orchard Core as a decoupled backend/CMS server using its REST & GraphQL APIs. Check out our current post to read more about Blazing Orchard and many more!

While assisting my computer science students on ways to help debug and improve the clarity and runtime of their code, I explained the concept of guard clauses. Guard clauses are true/false expressions (predicates) found at the top of a method or function that determine whether the function should continue to run. Guard clauses test for preconditions and either immediately return from the method...