When it comes to securing ASP.NET applications, or any application in general, authentication and authorization play key roles. Authentication is the process of verifying a user’s identity. It checks if the user credentials are correct or not. Authorization, on the other hand, is the process of verifying a user’s roles. So, essentially, authorization aids in […]
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Git is a free and open-source distributed version control system that manages and tracks changes to your code locally on your computer. This cheat sheet features the most important and commonly used Git commands. Download it for free You can also check out these tutorials:
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Middleware in programming is a crucial concept that can sometimes be challenging to understand. In the blog post below, I will try to clarify and make it simple to understand using the .NET framework. To better understand this complex concept, let’s take as an example the process of building a house. I am no house
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Parallelism is an important concept in programming because it divides tasks and allocates those tasks to separate threads for processing. In .NET/C# for parallelism you can use the System.Threading and System.Threading.Tasks namespaces. These namespaces provide several classes and methods to help you implement parallelism in your .NET applications. In C#, you can several types of
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Per definition, Tuples are a data structure that provides an easy way to represent a single set of data in C#. They were first introduced in .NET Framework 4.0 specifically for F#. In C#, Tuples are represented by the System.Tuple and System.ValueTuple classes. System.Tuple and System.ValueTuple have some differences related to syntax, mutability, and memory
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Minimal API is a new feature introduced in ASP.NET Core 6.0 that simplifies the process of building HTTP APIs. It’s a lightweight, opinionated framework that allows developers to create APIs with less boilerplate code and configuration. Why Minimal API? Minimal API is a new feature in .NET 6 that allows the creation of simple services with
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Per definition, bUnit is a testing library for Blazor Components. Its goal is to make it easy to write comprehensive, stable unit tests. bUnit is a testing library for Blazor Components that allows developers to write comprehensive and stable unit tests. It enables setting up and defining components, verifying outcomes, interacting with and inspecting components, passing parameters and
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Query filters in Entity Framework Core provide a way to apply a global filter to all queries for a given entity. When a query filter is defined, it is automatically applied to all queries for that entity, without the need to specify the filter condition explicitly in each query. Query filters are especially helpful when
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In a recent Twitter thread, Drew Noakes from Microsoft announced some really great features that were added to Visual Studio 2022 – V 17.5. They are all great, but especially one took my attention which will will test for ourselves on this blog post. It seems that Visual Studio 17.5 supports a feature named BuildAcceleation which
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HTTP methods are an essential part of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which is the primary protocol used for communication between web servers and web clients. There are several HTTP methods, also known as HTTP verbs, that are used to communicate with web servers and perform actions on resources. The most important or commonly used
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