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Adding Entity Framework for Blog Posts (Part 3)

ASP.NET Entity Framework

You can find all the source code for the blog posts on GitHub Parts 1 & 2 of the series on adding Entity Framework to a .NET Core project. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found...

Friday, 16 August 2024 18:00

9 minute read

Adding Entity Framework for Blog Posts (Part 2)

ASP.NET Entity Framework

You can find all the source code for the blog posts on GitHub Part 2 of the series on adding Entity Framework to a .NET Core project. Part 1 can be found here. Introduction In the previous post, we...

Thursday, 15 August 2024 18:00

3 minute read

Adding a C# Client For Umami API

ASP.NET Umami

Imtroduction In this post, I will show you how to create a C# client for the Umami reporting API. This is a simple example that demonstrates how to authenticate with the API and retrieve data from...

Wednesday, 14 August 2024 01:27

6 minute read

Using ImageSharp.Web with ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET ImageSharp

ImageSharp is a powerful image processing library that allows you to manipulate images in a variety of ways. ImageSharp.Web is an extension of ImageSharp that provides additional functionality for...

Tuesday, 13 August 2024 14:16

3 minute read

ASP.NET Core Caching with HTMX

ASP.NET HTMX

Caching is an important technique to both improve user experience by loading content faster and to reduce the load on your server. In this article I'll show you how to use the built-in caching...

Monday, 12 August 2024 00:50

4 minute read

Adding Entity Framework for Blog Posts (Part 1, Setting up the Database)

ASP.NET Entity Framework

Buckle in because this will be a long one! You can see parts 2 and 3 here and here. Introduction While I've been happy with my file based approach to blogging, as an excercise I decided to move to...

Sunday, 11 August 2024 04:53

6 minute read

Adding Paging with HTMX and ASP.NET Core with TagHelper

ASP.NET HTMX

Now that I have a bunch of blog posts the home page was getting rather length so I decided to add a paging mechanism for blog posts. This goes along with adding full caching for blog posts to make...

Friday, 09 August 2024 12:50

3 minute read

Using Umami for Local Analytics

ASP.NET Umami

One of the things that annoyed me about my current setup was having to use Google Analytics to get visitor data (what little there is of it ??). So I wanted to find something I could self-host that...

Thursday, 08 August 2024 15:53

5 minute read

Adding a RSS feed with ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET RSS

RSS (and Atom) is still the only widely adopted format for syndicating content. It's a simple XML format that can be consumed by a wide range of feed readers. In this post, I'll show you how to add an...

Wednesday, 07 August 2024 13:53

3 minute read

Adding Background Sending for Emails

ASP.NET

##Introduction In my previous post I detailed how to send emails using FluentEmail and the SMTP Client. However one issue with this is the delay in sending emails. SMTP servers tend to be slow and can...

Wednesday, 07 August 2024 08:15

4 minute read