(David Ramel) Microsoft shipped .NET Core 3.1, described as a “small and short release” that focuses on two of the big features highlighting the Sept. 23 release of .NET Core 3.0: Blazor (for C# Web development instead of JavaScript) and desktop development (Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Fo

(Darran Jones) In this post, we’re going to cover the recent extensions to the DalSoft RestClient library which allows you to easily test a REST API using C#.

(Ben Nadel) The other day, I was in the middle of writing a “typical” conditional MySQL query that had special handling for NULL values when it suddenly occurred to me that I was doing more work than I had to. I don’t work with NULL values very often in SQL and ColdFusion; so, I fear that my instinc

(Nicholas Blumhardt) Microsoft’s new UI stack, Blazor, features in just about every summary of what’s new in .NET Core 3. I’m not planning to use “server-side” Blazor, although it’s undeniably impressive (frameworks based on stateful client/server sessions tend to blow their complexity budget dealin

(Cody) The great debates in computing all have one common theme. Whether it is tabs vs. spaces or Vi vs. Emacs, the thread linking all these debates together is keyboard efficiency.

(Tapas Pal) Developers now can create an Ubuntu Server virtual machine (VM) from the Azure portal. By default, in Azure Stack Marketplace, a Linux image is not available.

(Damir Arh) The recommended pattern for asynchronous programming in the .NET framework is the task-based asynchronous programming (TAP). This tutorial gives a brief info about this pattern.

(David Ramel) Microsoft developers keep plugging away at the “huge technical challenge” of duplicating the Windows Forms designer found in the aging, Windows-only .NET Framework in .NET Core, the new open-source, cross-platform default approach for .NET coding.

(Bipin Joshi) If you are a beginner in ASP.NET Core chances are at some point in time you stumbled upon this – .NET Standard. You probably wondered what it is and how is it different than .NET Framework and .NET Core.

(Ben Nadel) Historically, when I need to position a transient element, like a drop-down menu or a pop-up, I usually embed said element in the DOM (Document Object Model) directly next to its trigger element; and then, position the transient element “relative” to the trigger element using absolute po