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• NuGet central package versions with floating or range versions

  Posted on June 29, 2023

  Somehow, using central package version is an "enterprise" feature and therefore it has to be obnoxious about not shooting yourself in the foot. Fortunately, there's a better way. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • nuget

• How to bind to MarkupString in Blazor

  Posted on April 14, 2023

  Since this is by-design on ASP.NET, this post shows the only way you can achieve this at the moment. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • aspnet
  • blazor

• Strongly-typed resources with .NET 6, 8, Blazor and beyond

  Posted on April 4, 2023

  It would seem that adding a .resx file to your project should be enough to get you started with strongly-typed resources. Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Here's how to get it working. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • aspnet
  • blazor

• Access HttpContext from everywhere

  Posted on April 4, 2023

  Being such a common way to access the current user Claims, I thought Accessing HttpContext.User would be really straightforward in ASP.NET Core. But it's not. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • aspnet
  • blazor

• Blazor client side debugging

  Posted on March 30, 2023

  How to avoid the issue where the server-side debugging attaches properly but the client-side (browser) doesn't in time and the connection is dropped or breakpoints don't hit. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • aspnet
  • blazor

• NuGet packing best practices analyzers

  Posted on February 28, 2023

  NuGetizer, the ultimate NuGet packing tool for serious library developers, has gotten a new feature that's going to make it easier to remember those best practices you read here and there: a bunch of brand-new analyzers give you helpful suggestions and warnings so your package doesn't end up looking like a n00b's job on nuget.org :) [Read More]

  Tags:

  • oss
  • dotnet
  • nuget

• Open Source Software as Music

  Posted on February 14, 2023

  Granted, no analogy is perfect, but bear with me for a bit. [Read More]

• SponsorLink: trying something new-ish for OSS sustainability

  Posted on January 24, 2023

  I would love to live in a world where open source developers can make a decent living from their (popular) passion projects. So I decided to try to build something on top of GitHub Sponsors that could enable a more streamlined experience for users and authors alike to connect and support each other. I call it SponsorLink and you can use it right now :) [Read More]

  Tags:

  • oss
  • github
  • sponsors
  • dotnet

• Reusing readme content across NuGet packages

  Posted on January 16, 2023

  Nowadays, the official NuGet gallery provides very nice looking rendering of a package readme (if provided). This post shows how to reuse readme content across multiple packages and your main project markdown files seamlessly. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • devops
  • github
  • actions
  • nuget
  • dotnet

• Azure DNS updater using Powershell and Azure CLI

  Posted on December 6, 2022

  Back in the day, if you had a machine with a dynamic IP and you needed to accesss it remotely, you’d just create a DynDNS account, download their app and it would keep your DNS record up to date. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • azure
  • powershell

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