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Over the past few months, we had the opportunity to thoroughly test the new features of C# 13.0, officially released in November 2024 alongside ASP.NET Core 9.0. Our testing spanned …
C# 13.0 - Overview and new features What's New in C# 13.0: Language Enhancements, Advanced Features, and Deeper Integration with .NET 9 Read More
I'm pleased to say that my new Building Web APIs with ASP NET Core book made it into the Manning's Top 10 Titles list in its first week of release!
Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core in Manning's Top 10! A great achievement for the "Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core" book's first publishing week Read More
If you often work with PDF files, you've probably already heard of Syncfusion Essential Studio, a .NET-based software product providing solutions to most of the complex problems faced during application …
C# - Find whether a PDF contains images or text A quick and simple way (with free code sample) to check if a PDF file contains images and/or text using Syncfusion PDF class library for .NET Read More
If you are a frequent reader of the Coding section of this blog, there's a good chance you are an ASP.NET Core developer - or an IT enthusiast interested in …
ASP.NET Core backstory: a transition from closed to open source How a company historically known for its opposition to the open source software paradigm became one of the biggest open source contributors in the world Read More
A few days ago we published a small post explaining how to perform a case insensitive Contains query using Entity Framework Core, since the Contains() method changed its behaviour from …
System.Linq.Dynamic.Core - Case insensitive Contains() How to use the Contains() method in a case-insensitive way using Entity Framework Core and System.Linq.Dynamic.Core Read MoreIf you've stumbled upon this post there's a high chance that you're a seasoned ASP or ASP.NET Web Developer who is trying to find an alternative to the good old …
ASP.NET Core Server.MapPath equivalent How to access the absolute path to the application content files in ASP.NET Core Application just like we did with Server.MapPath using IWebHostEnvironment Read More
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 SendGrid API How to send transactional e-mail messages from a ASP.NET Core C# web application using Twilio SendGrid API Read MoreToday I was working with EF Core and I was implementing some IQueryable filters using this guide. When I was performing my unit tests to see if I did everything properly …
Entity Framework Core: case-insensitive Contains() In Entity Framework, the Contains() method used to be case-insensitive: however, such behavior has been changed in EF Core. Here's how to revert it back and perform case-insensitive searches Read More
In this article we'll see how to take advantage of Serilog, a neat open-source diagnostic logging library for .NET applications, to log our ASP.NET Core web application’s data to a …
ASP.NET Core SQL Server and MySQL database logging with Serilog How to use the ASP.NET Core's built-in ILogger logging API to write application logs to SQL Server, MySQL and/or MariaDB using Serilog logging provider Read More
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