(K. Scott Allen) Microsoft added async features to the C# language with more than the usual fanfare. We were told async and await would fundamentally change how .NET developers write software, and future development would be async by default.

(Peter Vogel) If you want to handle the most common pattern in ASP.NET Controllers (displaying a page and then accepting data entered into it), you can do it with Razor Pages. You’ll just need less code than if you used a Controller, a View and a model object.

(Satyaprakash Samantaray) Bootstrap is the most popular front-end framework for building responsive websites. Bootstrap is an open source framework based on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

(Ben Nadel) I’m very new to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). I’ve read Practical SVG by Chris Coyier. And, I’ve tried to create an SVG icon system using components in Angular 7.2.0. But, really, I know very little about how SVG works or about how to make it dynamic.

(K. Scott Allen) Someone asked me why dependency injection is popular in .NET Core. They told me DI makes code harder to follow because you never know what classes and objects the app will use unless you run with a debugger.

(Peter Vogel) As fond as he is of using Controllers and Views, Peter isn’t sure that Razor Pages aren’t a better model for Web development. But the first step, adding Razor Pages to your project, isn’t as easy as it should be. And, after that, you’ll want to integrate them with your existing MVC app

(Rick Strahl) I just ran into an interesting issue with my Web Store. On my site I use a custom Web Store and the payment integration is going through BrainTree’s CC Processing APIs. Braintree has both server side and client side SDKs and the site uses the JavaScript SDK to remotely render the parti

(Ben Nadel) Over the last two weeks, I’ve been working on a proof-of-concept for a feature augmentation that I want to pitch at work. It’s been quite a while since I put on my “product hat”; so, I was excited to get down-and-dirty with the process of fleshing out a prototype.

(Gerald Versluis) Xamarin.Forms 4 will be releasing soon. This tutorial contains the most important highlights of what is to come in this new version.

(Mike Brind) Exceptions in .NET represent an error condition in an executing program. Error conditions can come about as a result of a large number of causes, each represented by its own exception type.