Category Archives: ASP.NET Core

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Learnings in Blazor Static Web Apps on Azure: Part 1

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I’ve been a big fan of Blazor as a framework for web applications and the promise of being able to use my favorite programming language C# in the browser to build with web assembly. When Azure Static Apps released support for Blazor, I was immediately interested and started building a few applications. I’ve learned a few things about adding features to these applications and using other Azure services with a Blazor application and will share some of those tips and tricks in a series of blog posts over the next few weeks.

My first app: Fritz’s Hat Collection

I wanted to make a simple website to get started and learn more about using this application model, so I tackled a long desired website that I wanted to build: a catalog of my hat collection.  Yes, I enjoy a good hat particularly ball-caps and wanted to make a little site that was effectively a little more than an image gallery.  Maybe I would add some metadata and allow visitors to search the site.  The site is currently running at https://hats.csharpfritz.com

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Minimal March – Part 2 : .NET on a Chromebook

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After writing my previous post in this Minimal March series, it was pointed out to me that my approach is still a little bit of ‘gatekeeping‘. I was using a very expensive machine with lots of memory and drive space in a virtual machine. What about those folks that don’t have access to these resources? Let’s knock down those doors and show that ANYONE ANYWHERE can be a .NET developer.

I set the following parameters for myself, to ensure that I was getting a computer that just about anyone could acquire:

  1. Purchase a laptop at my local discount retail shop, a Walmart in my case.
  2. Spend less than $200
  3. It must be a Chromebook – this is now very common in high-schools here in the US
  4. Configure it with .NET developer tools and work on productive software on my Twitch stream

… and it worked.

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Minimal March – Part 1: Getting Started with .NET and C# at the Command-line

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I wrote this tweet roughly a week ago about the state of .NET development that I was seeing on Twitter:

I see ‘Minimal March’ as a developer challenge for me, I’m someone who has spent the majority of the last 15 years working in a version of Visual Studio and C#. Let’s take away those comfortable and productive tools and expose me to more operating systems and more ways that folks can write applications. In this post, I’m going to outline the parameters of this .NET development event and show my initial configuration on Linux. I built this configuration live on my Twitch stream on March 1, 2020.

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Deploying ASP.NET Core with .NET Framework using Docker

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When working with Docker, most folks are very familiar with deploying and building Linux-based containers.  ASP.NET Core is a web framework that works great on both Windows and Linux, and can run on both the cross-platform .NET Core framework and the classic .NET Framework.  Last week, I was asked about how to package that ASP.NET Core application such that it runs on .NET Framework on a Windows-based container with IIS.  I took some time on my live-stream show and walked through the process.

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Fritz’s 10 Minute Tips – ASP.NET Core Configuration

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I recorded another short video to show the various ways that you can configure an ASP.NET Core application.

In the video, I show how to configure your application with:

  • Strongly-typed configuration classes
  • appsettings.json
  • environment variables
  • environment variables in web.config
  • user-secrets

Interested in seeing more sample videos like this?  I have more ideas and demos that I show at events that I can convert to YouTube videos if there is interest.