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.NET Core nginx, and Postgres with EF on an rPi

by Marc Clifton

Implementing an SSL capable server in .NET Core WITHOUT ASP.NET, using nginx, and testing Postgres with EF, all running on an rPi

Elasticsearch, Kibana and Docker using .NET Standard 2

by Juan G. Carmona

Advanced logging in modern .NET applications. A Sunday-morning-proof-of-concept.

Slack Chatting with your rPi

by Marc Clifton

Talk to your rPi over a Slack channel, getting status, controlling devices, and running shell (bash) commands and viewing the console output posted back to your Slack channel

ASP.NET Core Road to Microservices Part 02: View Components

by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

The second of many articles featuring design patterns, architectural designs, frameworks and technologies leading to ASP.NET Core Microservices

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From Linear to Upper Triangular Matrix Indices

by Maniezzo

A couple of lines of code to get the i-j indices of an upper triangular matrix (main diagonal included) from a linerized array.

Batch Processing with Directory.EnumerateFiles

by Bohdan Stupak

Batching is a nice technique that allows you to handle big amounts of data gracefully. Directory.EnumerateFiles is the API that allows you to organize batch processing for the directory with a large number of files.

Inno Setup Dependency Installer

by DomGries

Download and install any dependency such as .NET, Visual C++ or SQL Server during your application's installation!

Connect to Azure Application Insights from .NET C# Web Application hosted in Localhost or Azure Web App

by Sauradipta Chaudhury

Connect .NET Web App to Azure Application Insights hosted in Localhost or Azure Web App using the same code. The approach is recommended by Microsoft and is applicable for .NET 6 and above.

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.NET Core nginx, and Postgres with EF on an rPi

11 Jan 2019 by Marc Clifton

Implementing an SSL capable server in .NET Core WITHOUT ASP.NET, using nginx, and testing Postgres with EF, all running on an rPi

Elasticsearch, Kibana and Docker using .NET Standard 2

29 Dec 2018 by Juan G. Carmona

Advanced logging in modern .NET applications. A Sunday-morning-proof-of-concept.

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Slack Chatting with your rPi

27 Jan 2019 by Marc Clifton

Talk to your rPi over a Slack channel, getting status, controlling devices, and running shell (bash) commands and viewing the console output posted back to your Slack channel

ASP.NET Core Road to Microservices Part 02: View Components

30 Jun 2019 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

The second of many articles featuring design patterns, architectural designs, frameworks and technologies leading to ASP.NET Core Microservices

TCP Socket Off-the-shelf - Revisited with Async-Await and .NET Core

8 May 2018 by Igor Ladnik

Handy component for asynchronous TCP connection. With the same code it is available in .NET Core and Desktop versions.

Generate Native Executable from .NET Core 3.1 Project

28 Apr 2020 by Ray Porter

Make true native executable (no framework required) from .NET Core 3.1 project (factorial calculation project example) with the CoreRT library

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ASP.NET Core: Implement a Load Balancer

8 Sep 2017 by Daniele Fontani

.NET Core showcase: learn basics implementing a toy tool

Introducing Lightweight WebSocket RPC Library for .NET

14 Jan 2018 by Darko Jurić

WebSocket RPC library for .NET with auto JavaScript client code generation, supporting ASP.NET Core.

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PDF417 Barcode Encoder Class Library and Demo App Ver. 2.2

8 Sep 2020 by Uzi Granot

The PDF417 barcode encoder class library is written in C#. The target framework is .NET Framework (net462) and .NET Standard (netstandard2.0). The encoder library allows you to create a PDF417 barcode image from a text string or a binary (byte) array. Two demo/test applications are included.

Configuring Simple State Machines

6 May 2020 by George Swan

An attempt to throw some light on how state machines work and what they can be used for

Learning Entity Framework (Day 4): Understanding Entity Framework Core and Code First Migrations in EF Core

9 Oct 2018 by Akhil Mittal

Entity framework core, code first migrations and data annotations in EF Core

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Angular 7 with .NET Core 2.2 - Global Weather (Part 3)

9 Apr 2019 by Fred Song (Melbourne)

Angular 7 with .NET Core 2.2 - Global Weather

Dependency Injection to The Core

28 Dec 2016 by Fiyaz Hasan

Learn how dependency injection mechanism has evolved from ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core

Duplex gPRC

27 Nov 2020 by Sacha Barber

Small demo on creating C# duplex (streaming) gRPC client/server

Authenticate .NET Core Client of SQL Server with Integrated Security from Linux Docker Container

10 Jan 2019 by Andi Kleinbichler

Illustrates the implementation of a .NET Core app, running in a Linux container, connecting to a SQL Server database with integrated security.

Scaffolding Dapper with CatFactory

8 Dec 2019 by HHerzl

Scaffolding Dapper with CatFactory

Newt: A Powerful C# Parser Generator in a Small Package

14 May 2019 by honey the codewitch

An LL(1) pull parser and generator that thinks it's an LL(k) parser - with a rich, simple and beautiful EBNF syntax

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Microsoft Blazor - Custom Controls for Dynamic Content

17 Oct 2020 by Ev Uklad

Demonstration of how to create an externally extendable dynamic page, which will support all controls that we can add later in a separate assembly without the recompilation of the dynamic page

MQTT – Message Queue Telemetry Transport Protocol with .NET Core

19 Oct 2020 by JawadHasan

How to use MQTT Protocol in your .NET Core Applications

BusinessRulesEngine for .NET Applications

1 Dec 2019 by Dan Ionescu (USINESOFT)

Complex cascade defaulting of properties on an object graph triggered by other property changes

16 Days: A TypeScript Application from Concept to Implementation

3 Nov 2019 by Marc Clifton

A metadata driven, view defines the model, schema generated on the fly, from concept to prototype application in 16 days

A Regular Expression Engine in C#

31 Mar 2019 by honey the codewitch

A Non-Backtracking Regular Expression Engine for .NET (Core)

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ApiBoilerPlate: New Features and Improvements for Building ASP.NET Core 3 APIs

1 Dec 2019 by Vincent Maverick Durano

The new version of ApiBoilerPlate has recently been released. In this post, we will take a look at the new features added to the template.

.NET Core Datagrid

18 Jan 2017 by Bart-Jan Brouwer

.Net Core datagrid with server side paging, sorting and filtering

Angular 2 & .NET Core Developing Web App from Scratch Part 2: Implementing Front-end Part

4 Feb 2017 by O.Nasri

Great article to learn how you can create web application from scratch using Angular2 & .NET CORE WEB API

CsConsoleFormat: Introduction

3 Mar 2018 by Athari

CsConsoleFormat library for .NET - Formatting in Console using modern technologies

IoT Home Thing for Raspberry Pi

13 Mar 2018 by Jose Motta

Home of Things based on Raspberry Pi, Linux, Swagger, Docker & .NET Core

Building a DevOps CI/CD Pipeline for ASP.NET Core with VSTS

7 Jun 2018 by Habibur Rony

This article mainly covers how to create new build and release definition using VSTS. There are short descriptions of DevOps, continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment.

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Slickflow.NET Core Open Source Workflow Engine

30 Nov 2019 by besley

Slickflow.NET Core Open Source Workflow Engine

ASP.NET Core WebAPI secured using OAuth2 Client Credentials

11 Jun 2017 by Livio Francescucci

Use a JWTToken to access a .NET Core Web API leveraging IdentityServer4 / OAuth2.

A Simple Pathfinding Laboratory

7 Sep 2018 by Robert Vandenberg Huang

Experiment, run and compare different pathfinding algorithms and heuristic functions

How to Write a Custom Logging Provider in ASP.NET Core

15 Apr 2019 by Theo Bebekis

How to write a custom logging provider in ASP.NET Core

Programming Linux With .NET Core 3: Introduction & Chapter 2

13 Aug 2020 by raddevus

Learn to program Linux via .NET Core 3 and Visual Studio code: Getting started

Castle Dynamic Proxy Interceptors to Track Model Changes and Trigger Rules

27 Jun 2023 by Ev Uklad

Add ability to track changes in a model class; use a proxy interceptor to execute a rule attached to a model property

A Walkthrough to Implement 2048 Game

4 Mar 2017 by Robert Vandenberg Huang

An introduction to make a simple 2048 console application in C#

Mission Impossible: Migrating .NET Core 1.x to 2.0

19 Aug 2017 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

.NET Core 2.0 brings a lot of improvements to the system, and it brings a lot of pain to the developers as well. I had a lot of problems upgrading .NET Core 1.x apps to .NET Core 2.0; I yet have to feel the promise it makes about performance and so, but let us see how to upgrade our existing applica

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Authentication and Authorization in ASP.NET Core 2.0 using Azure Active Directory and OpenID Connect

1 Aug 2018 by Habibur Rony

This article mainly covers how to setup and configure Azure AD tenant and integrating Azure AD into ASP.NET Core 2.0 web app for authentication and role based authorization.

Hosting .NET Core Components in Unmanaged C/C++ Process in Windows and Linux

4 Feb 2019 by Igor Ladnik

Compact infrastructure for custom hosting of .NET Core component in unmanaged C/C++ code with reciprocal methods calls between the parts running in Windows and Linux. Section Threads and Processes

Easy Set Up of .NET Core on Raspberry Pi and Remote Debugging with VS Code

25 May 2020 by Jonathan Nethercott

Automated Raspberry Pi Setup for .NET Core development and remote debugging using Visual Studio Code

Excelsior! Building Applications Without a Safety Net - Part 0

11 May 2021 by Pete O'Hanlon

Introduction to a series of articles where we build an application showing the entire thought process when writing it

JWT Security Part 2, Secure REST Service

4 Sep 2017 by Bart-Jan Brouwer

Learn how to create JWT and use with WebApi, REST and MVC All Build with .NET Core

Music Notation in Blazor - Part I

1 Aug 2018 by Ajcek84

Client-side music notation rendering in Blazor

Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) of ASP.NET Core Application on Azure Web App using Jenkins – Day 1

27 Nov 2019 by Akhil Mittal

This article will explain the concept of CI/CD, Jenkins, getting started with Jenkins, integrating and deploying an ASP.NET Core application locally and to the Azure Service as well. We’ll also cover topics like creating Azure service, creating Azure service principal, configuring Jenkins on Azure.

Auto-generated columns in a WPF ListView

18 Feb 2021 by #realJSOP

A WPF ListView that automatically generates columns (that are also sortable) based on decorated entity properties

JWT Security Part 3 - Secure MVC Application

4 Sep 2017 by Bart-Jan Brouwer

Learn how to create JWT and use with WebApi, REST and MVC all build with .NET Core

ASP.NET Core Razor Pages Using EntityFramework Core with Enums as Strings - Part IV

23 Nov 2018 by Leonard E. James

Add Project and Project Skills Processing

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Xamarin Forms - Theming Made Simple

21 Feb 2019 by Chandru BK

This article will assume that you have basic knowledge of C#, XAML Styles and Xamarin Forms and shows how to implement theming using simple styles.

How to Implement Full-Text Search in .NET Application with Elasticsearch

6 May 2020 by Daniele Fontani

Learn how to read and write documents with custom full-text queries in C# using NEST

Building a Database Application in Blazor - Part 5 - View Components - CRUD List Operations in the UI

7 Apr 2021 by Shaun C Curtis

How to build the CRUD List Presentation/UI Layer in a Blazor Database Application

Hello World Angular 2+ Data Sample Using JavaScriptServices .Net Core and PrimeNG

13 Mar 2017 by defwebserver

You can create database driven .Net Core applications using JavaScriptServices, and PrimeNG.

IoT Starter Raspberry Pi Lirc

15 Feb 2018 by Jose Motta

IoT.Starter.Pi.Thing powered by Linux Infrared Remote Control

Create Cross-Platform Charts with ASP.NET Core MVC

10 May 2018 by Jack Xu, USA

This article provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to use ASP.NET Core MVC to create charts in web applications with data from either the client or server side.

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oops - A Cross-Platform, General Purpose Undo/Redo Framework

8 Oct 2018 by outbred

Design, implementation, and usage of the oops framework

Writing to a Slack Channel - .NET Core Edition

7 Jan 2019 by Ryan Peden

Writing to a Slack Channel - .NET Core Edition

Build and Deploy an ASP.NET Core Web Application as Docker Container using Microsoft Azure - Part 1

11 Sep 2019 by GauravGahlot

This article is the first in the series where we are going to build a simple ASP.NET Core web application, containerize it with Docker and run it on local host.

ASP.NET Core and Blazor Code Venture: Configuring Azure AD Authentication

5 Aug 2019 by Vincent Maverick Durano

This is the first article of the ASP.NET Core and Blazor Code Venture series. The goal of this article series is to build a data driven Blazor app from scratch starting from setting up your development workspace, authentication, data access with CRUD, consuming Rest APIs and down to deployment.

Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) of ASP.NET Core Application on Azure Web App using Jenkins – Day 2

27 Nov 2019 by Akhil Mittal

In this article, we’ll publish the ASP.NET Core application to Azure App Service and Configure Jenkins on Azure before we move on to next steps.

Use Trace and TraceSource in .NET Core Logging

4 Oct 2020 by Zijian

How to use Trace and TraceSource in .NET Core Logging

Castle Dynamic Proxy Interceptors to Build Restartable Flows

3 Nov 2020 by Ev Uklad

Another way of using proxies and interceptors from Castle Dynamic Proxy framework

Excelsior! Building Applications Without a Safety Net - Part 2

13 May 2021 by Pete O'Hanlon

Second part of a series of articles where we build an application showing the entire thought process when writing it

The Missing Avalonia Templates for VB

26 Mar 2023 by Graeme_Grant

Add the missing project templates for the App and Control Library projects that were not included

Entity Framework Core with multiple DB Contexts, Schemas and Projects

30 Mar 2018 by Milan Stanacev

How to use EF Core code-first approach when DB schemas are split into multiple projects and DB contexts.

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ASP.NET Core Razor Pages Using EntityFramework Core with Enums as Strings - Part I

30 Oct 2018 by Leonard E. James

Create initial object model and database and display first Razor Page

ASP.NET Core Razor Pages Using EntityFramework Core with Enums as Strings - Part III

2 Dec 2018 by Leonard E. James

Add Project and Project State Processing

Create, Build and Deploy ASP.NET Core MVC App to Azure App Services

27 Dec 2018 by Prabakaran Rajendran

Create, build and deploy ASP.NET Core application into Azure app service

Access AWS Secrets Manager via .NET CORE

11 Mar 2019 by Preetam U Ramdhave

This article will help you to implement the functionality where you can store your sensitive data in the amazon Secrets Manager and access while bootstrapping the application.

JLogger6 - When You Care to Write the Very Best

21 Aug 2022 by MSBassSinger

Description of a simple, versatile, and scalable logger

Building a Discord Bot in Azure using Microservices

27 Aug 2019 by Glenn Prince

Over the next few posts, I am going to go through designing and building a Discord bot application using a microservices architecture and implementing a variety of services within Azure.

Deploy ASP.NET Core Web API on IIS

8 Feb 2020 by Aram Tchekrekjian

How to create and deploy your first ASP.NET Core Web API on IIS

Building a Database Application in Blazor - Part 4 - UI Controls

7 Apr 2021 by Shaun C Curtis

How to build the UI Controls in a Blazor Database Application

Excelsior! Building Applications Without a Safety Net - Part 3

20 May 2021 by Pete O'Hanlon

Third part of a series of articles where we build an application showing the entire thought process when writing it

SmartFormat.NET /2 - Enhancing string.Format to new levels

3 Dec 2016 by axuno

SmartFormat.NET /2 is a string template library that allows you to fill a string with data. Easy to use, fast, extensible, and extremely powerful. Allows for named {placeholders} using any data type, conditional formatting, iterating through IEnumerables, and much more.

A Quick Startup using .NET Core on Linux

14 Sep 2016 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

A comprehensive guide to .NET Core for beginners

modds Drag and Drop Programming for C# Creating Class Library (DLL) - Part 5

20 Sep 2016 by douglas young

Visual Programming Language

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EntityFramework Configuration Provider for .NET Framework & .NET Core

24 Oct 2016 by PatrickJNolan

Configuration.EntityFramework is a custom configuration provider for the .NET Core Configuration system built on EntityFrameworkCore.

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AttributeAuthorization with Custom Roles in ASP.NET Core

17 Feb 2017 by Mosti16

Use a custom Authorize Attribute which use a own PermissionProvider with custom Permission-Management.

How to Implement OIDC Authentication and Authorization with React without Redux

25 Jun 2018 by alex_brambila

How to implement OIDC Authentication and Authorization with React without Redux

Testing ASP.NET Core MVC Application with NUnit and Moq

8 Apr 2018 by Sem Shekhovtsov

The how-to article that summarises best practices for unit testing ASP NET Core MVC controller using NUnit and Moq framework

Aurelia and .NET Core 2.0

20 Jun 2018 by vnmatt

How to take advantage of ASP .NET Core's Razor (.cshtml) views and have dynamic routes for Aurelia

Generate TypeScript Interfaces from POCO Classes

18 Sep 2018 by Zijian

Generate TypeScript Interfaces from POCO Classes of .NET Framework or .NET Core

ASP.NET Core Razor Pages Using EntityFramework Core with Enums as Strings - Part II

2 Dec 2018 by Leonard E. James

Complete Initial CRUD Pages

ASP.NET Core - Authentication UI Installation

9 Nov 2018 by YasIkeda

Tutorial about how to add authentication functionalities to your existing ASP.NET Core project using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.UI package

Angular 7 SPA CRUD With ASP.NET Core And Entity Framework Core

17 Nov 2018 by Mangesh_Gaherwar

Article with Angular 7 and Entity Framework core and .net Core

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Build an ASP.NET Wiki to Explain TDD

17 Nov 2018 by Daniele Fontani

TDD & BDD explained with examples

The Year of IoT - Hooking Up a 2 Line LCD Display

12 Jan 2019 by Marc Clifton

The journey of using .NET Core to send text to a 2 line LCD connected to an rPi

Struples: A Useful JSON Superset

1 Apr 2019 by honey the codewitch

Code for parsing, querying, and emitting JSON or a JSON superset

Pck: Code Roundup and Quick Start Guide

20 Aug 2019 by honey the codewitch

Using PCK to create grammars, parsers and tokenizers for C# and other .NET languages

Build and Deploy an ASP.NET Core Web Application as Docker Container using Microsoft Azure - Part 3

10 Sep 2019 by GauravGahlot

In this article, we are going to set up a Release Trigger to automatically deploy our application on Azure App Service as a Docker Container, each time we push our code.

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Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) of ASP.NET Core Application on Azure Web App using Jenkins – Day 4

28 Nov 2019 by Akhil Mittal

In this article, we’ll learn the CI/CD of ASP.NET Core application on Azure using Jenkins Azure Pipeline.

.NET Core UI using Webviews

30 Nov 2019 by Johannes Bildstein

Write cross platform desktop applications with .Net Core by using the OS native webview.

How WireMock.NET Can Help in Doing Integration Testing of a .NET Core Application

19 Mar 2021 by Daan Acohen

Learn how to do integration testing while mocking external dependencies of your .NET Core application

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Lyrics Archiver

10 Nov 2020 by Alexander Chernosvitov

Windows Forms .NET Core app enables to show, search, edit and store lyrics within 7z-archive

.NET Core, PostgreSQL and Document Database

18 Oct 2020 by JawadHasan

Use NoSQL database functionality from within a Relational database system

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Excelsior! Building Applications Without a Safety Net - Part 1

11 May 2021 by Pete O'Hanlon

First part of a series of articles where we build an application showing the entire thought process when writing it

LiteApi internals (or how to build your own WebAPI middleware)

1 Jul 2017 by Milan Stanacev

This article covers internal workings of LiteApi and explains aspects of creating MVC-like WebAPI middleware running on ASP.NET Core .

Angular 4: User Authentication using JWT Token

1 Dec 2017 by Raihan Alam

User authentication in Angular 4 App using ASP.NET Core JWT Token

Case Insensitive Search Filter in OData ASP.NET Core 2.0 Web API as an OWIN Middleware

31 Jan 2018 by Pawel idzikowski

How to replace the web API request query string to provide case insensitive OData search

Why Should We Care About Containers for Development

4 Jun 2018 by Shayne P Boyer

Why should we care about containers for development

Binary Serialization with AnySerializer

3 Dec 2018 by replaysMike

How to binary serialize your classes without having to modify them

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Customising Bootstrap in ASP.NET Core 2.2 Web Application Projects

11 Feb 2019 by frez

The default Web Application template for .NET Core 2