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How to securely store passwords in Visual Studio 2019 with Manage User Secrets Securely manage Database credentials, API Keys and other user secrets using ASP.NET Core Secret Manager and Visual Studio Manage User Secrets features

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Being able to securely store database password and API keys in web applications while maintaining full efficiency in terms of debug and testing has always been a challenge for all …

How to securely store passwords in Visual Studio 2019 with Manage User Secrets Securely manage Database credentials, API Keys and other user secrets using ASP.NET Core Secret Manager and Visual Studio Manage User Secrets features Read More
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Understanding Environment Variables in .NET Core 3.1 How we can set & get environment variables in Visual Studio and how we can use them in development

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In professional application development that is followed in most .NET Core web development firms, you will find three main phases i.e. development, staging, and production phase. These are the various …

Understanding Environment Variables in .NET Core 3.1 How we can set & get environment variables in Visual Studio and how we can use them in development Read More
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How to check if a number is a multiple of another in ASP.NET C# A minimalistic extension method written in C Sharp that can be used to determine if an integer is a multiple (or a dividend) of another integer

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Today I needed to find a quick way to programmatically determine if a given integer number (Int32) was a multiple of another integer number: as a matter of fact I …

How to check if a number is a multiple of another in ASP.NET C# A minimalistic extension method written in C Sharp that can be used to determine if an integer is a multiple (or a dividend) of another integer Read More
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JsonSerializationException: Self referencing loop detected error - How to fix How to fix the "JsonSerializationException: Self referencing loop detected with type" error that can occur when trying to JSON serialize a Entity Framework result with ASP.NET Core

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If you've stumbled upon this post it most likely means that you're experiencing the following error while trying to serialize an Entity Framework (or EF Core) IQueryable result into a …

JsonSerializationException: Self referencing loop detected error - How to fix How to fix the "JsonSerializationException: Self referencing loop detected with type" error that can occur when trying to JSON serialize a Entity Framework result with ASP.NET Core Read More
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Use Newtonsoft's Json.NET instead of System.Text.Json in ASP.NET Core 3+ MVC projects How to replace the ASP.NET Core's native System.Text.Json APIs with the Newtonsoft.Json package library, also known as Json.NET

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If you're a ASP.NET developer and you've got some programming experience with ASP.NET Core 3+, you most likely already know that the ASP.NET Core development team introduced a brand new …

Use Newtonsoft's Json.NET instead of System.Text.Json in ASP.NET Core 3+ MVC projects How to replace the ASP.NET Core's native System.Text.Json APIs with the Newtonsoft.Json package library, also known as Json.NET Read More
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ASP.NET Core C# - Send email messages with SendInBlue and MailKit How to send transactional e-mail messages from a ASP.NET Core C# web application using SendInBlue through the MailKit NuGet package

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A few days ago we've published a guide explaining how to send email messages via SMTP with MailKit implementing a custom MailKitEmailSender class based upon the ASP.NET Core built-in IEmailSender …

ASP.NET Core C# - Send email messages with SendInBlue and MailKit How to send transactional e-mail messages from a ASP.NET Core C# web application using SendInBlue through the MailKit NuGet package Read More
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ASP.NET Core C# - Send email messages via SMTP with MailKit How to send e-mail messages from a ASP.NET Core C# web application through any SMTP server using the MailKit NuGet package

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In this article I will briefly explain how to implement the IEMailSender interface using MailKit, which will allow any ASP.NET Web Application to send e-mail messages using any SMTP server. …

ASP.NET Core C# - Send email messages via SMTP with MailKit How to send e-mail messages from a ASP.NET Core C# web application through any SMTP server using the MailKit NuGet package Read More
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ASP.NET Core C# - How to lock an async method according to custom IDs Introducing LockProvider, a lightweight C# class that can perform sync and async locking for custom unique IDs using the SemaphoreSlim class

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If you're working with ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core C#  and you need to prevent (or restrict) the access and/or execution of certain methods from multiple threads, the best approach you …

ASP.NET Core C# - How to lock an async method according to custom IDs Introducing LockProvider, a lightweight C# class that can perform sync and async locking for custom unique IDs using the SemaphoreSlim class Read More
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Async, Await, Lock, Wait and SynchronizationContext in ASP.NET Core A general overview of the ASP.NET Core Task Asynchronous Programming model (TAP) and some basic concepts to asynchronous programming

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As you probably already know, all the ASP.NET Core Identity system API's relevant methods are asynchronous, meaning that they return an async Task rather than a given return value; for …

Async, Await, Lock, Wait and SynchronizationContext in ASP.NET Core A general overview of the ASP.NET Core Task Asynchronous Programming model (TAP) and some basic concepts to asynchronous programming Read More
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Visual Studio - Your project does not reference .NETFramework - How to fix How to fix the 'Your project does not reference ".NETFramework,Version=v4.7.2" framework' Visual Studio build error when upgrading the .NET Framework version of an existing Visual Studio ASP.NET project

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If you've stumbled upon this post, it most likely means that you've switched the .NET Runtime Framework of your ASP.NET project(s) to a newer 4.x version, such as .NET Framework …

Visual Studio - Your project does not reference .NETFramework - How to fix How to fix the 'Your project does not reference ".NETFramework,Version=v4.7.2" framework' Visual Studio build error when upgrading the .NET Framework version of an existing Visual Studio ASP.NET project Read More