How to Use and Unit Test ILogger
ILogger is at the heart of the ASP.NET Core infrastructure and works well when you use it correctly. If you approach it the wrong way,…
Cross-Platform C# UI Technologies Part 2
The options for building cross-platform phone, desktop, and web-apps with C# are expanding. The recent Microsoft Build conference mentioned Blazor, Uno Platform and MAUI. MAUI is an evolution of Xamarin.Forms that targets .NET 5/6. This article compares the technologies and some others and attempts to clarify some confusion around the future of C# cross-platform development.
RestClient.Net 4.0
RestClient.Net is a cross-platform rest-client for .NET Core, .NET Framework, iOS, Android, WASM and UWP. It puts a wrapper over the .NET HttpClient API and allows you to write Rest client code that runs on any of the platforms. Version 4.0 of this library has been released, and I'd like to hear your feedback.
Blazor vs. React / Angular / Vue.js
Blazor is a new Microsoft technology that allows developers to write code for browsers in C#. This article compares Blazor to three other common SPA…
C# Delegates with IoC Containers and Dependency Injection
Developers are usually encouraged to do dependency injection with interfaces. Some developers don't know that they can do dependency injection with delegates, and there are…
Continue reading → C# Delegates with IoC Containers and Dependency Injection
Blazor WebAssembly Rest Client
Blazor is Microsoft's latest Single Page Application (SPA) framework, which is C# based and renders to the browser HTML DOM. Blazor comes in two flavors:…
.NET – How to Sign an Assembly in Visual Studio 2019
Signing an assembly ensures that the consumer knows its origin and uniquely identifies the component. It makes the physical DLL file tamper-proof. This tutorial will…
Continue reading → .NET – How to Sign an Assembly in Visual Studio 2019
Protobuf Web API in C#
Using Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf) for serialization over a Web API (or REST API) is simple. Most developers use JSON as the go-to transfer protocol for…
C# String Interpolation
Introduction String interpolation allows the creation of string literals with interpolation expressions. The syntax is convenient for formatting strings and is generally more readable than…