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An Apology about my Nuget Package

ASP.NET PagingTagHelper Random

Well I've been playing with a nuget package for doing paging stuff in ASP.NET and well I never thought there'd be 1.7k downloads. I thoght not making a 1.0 version would make it clear that it was a...

Thursday, 20 March 2025 21:30

1 minute read

On Logging in ASP.NET Applications (Part 1...probably)

ASP.NET C# Logging Serilog

Logging is OF COURSE a critical part of applications however I often see it misunderstood / misused in ASP.NET applications. This is part post and part manifesto on how to effectively log in ASP.NET...

Sunday, 27 October 2024 17:00

10 minute read

Custom Config Section Extensions

ASP.NET C#

It seems like everyone has a version of this code, I first came across this approach from Filip W and recently my old colleague Phil Haack has his version. Just for completion this is how I do...

Friday, 27 September 2024 06:20

4 minute read

A Newsletter Subscription Service Part 2 - Refactoring the Services (and a little Hangfire)

ASP.NET Email Newsletter Hangfire

In part 1 of this series I showed you how I created a new Newsletter Subscription page. In this part I'll cover how I restructured the solution to allow for sharing of Services and Models between the...

Monday, 23 September 2024 10:45

7 minute read

A Newsletter Subscription Service Pt. 1 - Requirements and Subscription Page

Alpine.js ASP.NET Email Newsletter

While perusing other people's blogs I noticed a lot of them have a subscription service which allows users to sign up to have an email sent to them weekly with the posts from that blog. I decided to...

Saturday, 21 September 2024 19:06

11 minute read

Using Grafana and Prometheus to Monitor ASP.NET Core 8+ Applications

ASP.NET Docker Grafana Prometheus

Monitoring is an essential part of maintaining the health and performance of your applications. I already have this site monitoring user visits using Umami and exceptions and errors using Seq but now...

Wednesday, 18 September 2024 04:45

6 minute read

Simple Search Using HTMX & EF Core for ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Entity Framework HTMX Postgres

This is just a quick article as it builds on the others in the full text search series such as the typeahead dropdown and Postgres full text search. In this post, I will show you how to implement a...

Tuesday, 17 September 2024 17:36

9 minute read

HTMX (and a little Alpine.js) for a SPA-like experience in ASP.NET Core

Alpine.js ASP.NET HTMX

In this site I use HTMX extensively, this is a super easy way to make your site feel more responsive and smoother without having to write a lot of JavaScript. NOTE: I'm not entirely happy with this...

Sunday, 15 September 2024 06:45

8 minute read

Using Polly For Retries

ASP.NET C# Polly

Polly is a critical part of any .NET developer's toolkit. It is a library that allows you to define policies for handling exceptions and retries in your application. In this article, we will explore...

Sunday, 15 September 2024 02:20

9 minute read

Using A Hybrid Approach To Blogging

ASP.NET Markdown

I've blogged many times about how I use Markdown to create my blog posts; I really like this approach but it has one major drawback - it means I have to do a complete Docker build cycle to update a...

Saturday, 14 September 2024 00:30

10 minute read