(Gerald Versluis) This Xamarin tutorial discusses what barcodes are and how they can be used in an App. You will learn how to generate and scan barcodes in your own Xamarin apps. You will also learn to scan and generate barcodes that connect to a Wi-Fi connection.

(Peter Vogel) Blazor as “C# running on the client” has had its release date moved to “sometime after .NET Core 3.0.0.”

(Ben Nadel) One of the nice features of the Angular Router is that it can perform a “local” redirect at any level of the Route configuration.

(Daniel Roth) .NET Core 3.0 Preview 4 is now available and it includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core.

(Chris Sainty) Razor Components now has built-in form and validation. The default implementation uses data annotations and is a very similar experience to forms and validation in ASP.NET MVC applications.

(Ben Nadel) For the last few weeks, I’ve been digging into file-handling in Angular 7. First, with the uploading of single files using the HttpClient service; and then, with the uploading of multiple files using FormData.

(Peter Vogel) Microsoft has some “best practice” advice to share on how to handle exceptions (a topic I’ve discussed elsewhere).

(Scott Hanselman) Earlier this week I talked about how Your Computer is not a Black Box and I spent some time in TCPView and at the command line exploring open ports on my computer. I was doing this in order to debug an issue with a local DNS server I was playing with, so I thought I’d take a moment

(Bipin Joshi) While developing ASP.NET Core web applications you often need to reuse parts of the user interface across many view or razor pages.

(Daniel Roth) Today we are pleased to announce improved Razor tooling support in Visual Studio Code with the latest C# extension. This latest release includes improved Razor diagnostics and support for tag helpers and Blazor apps.