(David Ramel) Microsoft’s C# programming language has passed Visual Basic .NET on the TIOBE Index — which measures language popularity — and is even in the running for being named “Programming Language of the Year” for 2019.

(Andrew Lock) In this post I describe the differences between various ASP.NET Core types that have been marked as obsolete in .NET Core 3.0.

(Bipin Joshi) If you have worked with ASP.NET Core Web APIs before, chances are you used HttpClient to invoke them. Although instantiating HttpClient directly is a common way of using it, there is a better alternative.

(Jeremy) I’ve created a walkthrough to get started using .NET Core and the command-line interface (CLI). It’s available on GitHub:

(Jon P Smith) The term “event-driven architecture” covers a wide range of distributed systems like MicroServices, Serverless etc. And this chapter from the book Software Architecture Patterns says event-driven architectures have many useful features, but they are hard to build and test.

(David Ramel) Scaffolding support for ASP.NET Core projects heads the list of new features added to Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 Preview 4.

(Ben Nadel) Over the years, I’ve gotten more confident in my ability to position elements, both fixed and absolute. But, for the most part, these elements are all predictably positioned within the web page.

(Michael Shpilt) It’s not so rare to see weird things happen in 3rd party library code. Call some method and you’ve got a strange exception.

(Mike Brind) This is the first in a series of articles that explores localisation in ASP.NET Core Razor Pages applications. This article will look at the configuration required to prepare a site for content localisation, in other words, to globalise the site. Future articles will cover the creation

(James Sinclair) Algebraic data types and algebraic data structures sound similar. It’s like they ought to be the same thing. But they’re not. They both have ‘algebraic’ in the name, so it’s confusing.