Blazor and Razor have a healthy following in the web UI dev community, especially among developers who primarily work within .NET Core. However, the confusion between these two can be off-putting for some developers, especially beginners. This post discusses the similarities and differences between Blazor framework and Razor; both are part of Microsoft’s free and open source .NET Core development platform. We also discuss where these two technologies merge and how...

A well-named Git repository can make a big difference in your development workflow. Here are 10 best practices to follow. A well-named Git repository can save you a lot of time and headaches down the road. A good name should be descriptive and concise, and it should be easy for you and your team to remember. In this article, we’ll share 10 best practices for naming your Git repositories. By following these...

Sometimes we have to perform several queries to the database, put the results into memory, and then process them as needed. For example, we have a Supplier table and a Customer table. Both tables have a substantial amount of data. We want to combine existing Supplier and Customer data with specific criteria. Generally, we will perform two queries sequentially: query to the Supplier table first, then query to the Customer table. The...

Need to communicate with multiple DBs in one application?? Usually we don’t face such scenarios. However if such requirement comes in picture, we will see how easy it is to communicate with multiple DBs using repository pattern in .Net Core Web API. To configure mongoDB, we need to install mongoDB driver for C#, this we can install via NuGet package manager. After installation we need connection string and database name which we...

The main data representation in REST is referred to as a resource. A properly named resource makes an API simple to use and intuitive. That same API, when implemented incorrectly, may feel complicated and be challenging to use and comprehend. The following article will assist you in getting started when constructing the resource URIs for your new API. Use Nouns to represent resources / Not Verbs Always make sure that your URIs...

Full stack development is the process of developing an application’s front end and back end. The process involves the business logic layer, also known as the back end server side area, which specializes in data validation, and the presentation layer also referred to as the front end area, which specializes in the user interface. Full stack development involves all the steps from planning to the finished product. To work in...

Я прошел путь от сервисного инженера, инженера-проектировщика до руководителя группы проектирования сетей передачи данных. Сейчас занимаюсь работой со стажерами-инженерами, а еще обучаю наших сетевых специалистов автоматизации, о чем уже рассказывал на Хабре. Здесь хочу поделиться своим взглядом на то, как инженеры разных уровней могут ускорить профессиональное развитие, и сделать это в первую очередь благодаря верному выбору проектов. Понятно, что проект мы можем выбрать лишь на этапе собеседований, но это важно делать,...

Как же глупы мнения некоторых людей из Ост-Индии, полагающих, что обезьяны и бабуины, которых там огромное количество, наделены рассудком и умеют разговаривать, но не делают этого из страха, что их возьмут на службу и заставят работать (Антуан Легран, около 1675 года). Эту остроумную цитату я увидел в замечательной книге недавно ушедшего от нас Дэвида Гребера "Бредовая работа: Трактат о распространении бессмысленного труда", которая произвела на меня очень сильное впечатление. О ней я...

Размытое зрение, стук по клавиатуре и одно глобальное правило продуктивности. Я был там. Слишком долго работаю над проектом. Я начинаю ошибаться. Я теряю детали. Ошибки продолжают появляться, а качество падает. Делаю что-нибудь творческое в течение нескольких часов, и это утомительно. Кажется, существует предел того, сколько постоянных усилий и внимания может выдержать наш мозг. На самом деле, невероятно, насколько универсальной является эта черта человеческого внимания. Великие умы всех времен имеют нечто общее: Они все работали по...

There are a lot of problems that spring from leaving a codebase unattended and uncared for longer periods of time. That’s why code refactoring is a big part of keeping digital products functional in the long term. How to know if your code needs refactoring and what are the consequences of neglecting it? What is code refactoring? Code refactoring is a concept well known in software development and it is the process...

Writing code can be very exciting but it also can be very frustrating if your code is based on nested loops. Iterations are still one the most important parts of coding. So how can we avoid using ugly nested loops in our code? LINQ — Language Integrated Query Microsoft language developers provided a way to express queries directly in their languages. LINQ extends the language by the addition of query expressions, which...

Singleton and Static classes can only have one instance available in memory, and both classes can be used to maintain the global state of an application, however, there are many differences between them. In this article, I explain what their differences are. Singleton Singleton is one of the creational patterns from “Gang of Four” (GoF), and it ensures that a class only has one instance (restricting a class to instantiate its multiple...

For as long as web applications have been around, full-stack developers have had to work with different sets of technologies for the front and backend. For instance, a developer would use something like Angular for the frontend and Express.js for the backend. Microsoft aimed to change this approach by unifying web app development with the release of .NET Core Blazor back in 2018. What is .NET Core Blazor? .NET core blazor is...

Entity Framework Core is recommended and the most popular tool for interacting with relational databases on ASP NET Core. It is powerful enough to cover most possible scenarios, but like any other tool, it has its limitations. Long time people said (not without reason) that Entity Frmaework does not match high load systems and for these scenarios it is better to use Dapper. But time goes by and Entity Framework...

Schedule and run background jobs using this powerful framework Disclaimer: the image mentioned in this article is currently marked as preview. Opinions expressed therein are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer. Hangfire provides a framework that performs background processing for .NET and .NET Core applications without creating a Windows Service or requiring a separate process. Hangfire is open and free for commercial use (subscriptions...

ASP.NET Core MVC is a web development framework, widely used by developers around the word, to develop web applications. These web applications have proven to be vulnerable to attacks from different sources, though, and it is our responsibility to safeguard our data. This article will help you develop a secure ASP.NET Core MVC web application. The following are the best practices recommended to avoid vulnerabilities in your applications: ...

Identify if-else statements as a problem in your code. If-else statements can be problematic if not used correctly. They can be difficult to read and can lead to code that is difficult to maintain. When used incorrectly, if-else statements can also lead to errors. Especially else statements may work unexpectedly when someone else adds another feature that is not fit your if condition. No one wants an application that is not...

In this article, we will discuss gRPC and perform CRUD Operation using that and step-by-step implementation of gRPC. We take Product Application here to understand how things are going to work with gRPC and, in that first, we create ProductOfferGrpcService which is used to create Product Offers and which will be consumed by Admin Service and he will add, update and delete product offer and managed all the things related to...

«Громкий уход» — это когда ты объявляешь всем, что увольняешься. Когда об этом знают по крайней мере твои работодатели. Но в последнее время резко начал набирать популярность так называемый «тихий уход» («quiet quitting»). Когда о том, что ты по сути перестал стараться, знаешь только ты. «Тихий уход» — фраза, которая в последние недели стала очень популярной на зарубежных карьерных сайтах, таких как LinkedIn, где консультанты по трудоустройству и СЕО волнуются по...