Look at that power Imagine building a house. View components are like the pre-built sections of a house, such as the windows, doors, and cabinets, which are designed to fit into the larger structure easily. You can swap them out or change their appearance without needing to rebuild the...

Deploying an ASP.NET Core 9.0 application manually can be a time-consuming and error-prone process. To streamline this, I’ve created a PowerShell script that automates the deployment of a .NET Core web application to an IIS server. This ensures minimal downtime while making the process efficient and repeatable. Overview of the...

Performance testing is a critical aspect of the development process, it helps ensure that our applications can handle varying levels of traffic and deliver a smooth user experience under heavy loads. In this article, we will explore how to perform load and stress testing on ASP.NET Core 6.0 applications using...

This article is mainly about implementing a simple web notification system in a Vue application using basic functionalities provided by SignalR. Here, we will explore how we can configure SignalR in a .NET Core application and how to integrate SignalR client in a Vue application. You can have a better...

Partial Views and View Components in ASP.NET Core: An overview In the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern, the view is one of the most important layers since it is used to represent the data of the application including user interactions. A view is an HTML template that is embedded with Razor markup...

Multitenancy is a software architecture that allows a single instance of a software application to serve multiple customers, called tenants. Each tenant's data is isolated and remains invisible to other tenants for security reasons. This architecture is commonly used in Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, where multiple organizations or...

In this guide, we will learn how to implement Advanced Pagination in ASP.NET Core WebApi with ease. Pagination is one of the most important concepts while building RESTful APIs. You would have seen several public APIs implementing this feature for better user experience and security. We will go in detail...

Containerizing and deploying ASP.NET Core applications Containerization has transformed the way applications are developed, deployed, and managed in the modern software industry. Docker, in particular, has become a pivotal tool, simplifying the packaging and deployment of applications, including ASP.NET Core applications. In this guide, we’ll dive into the world of...

The growth of the internet has made instant communication technology more important than ever, especially for the Internet of Things (IoT). With so many devices like smart home gadgets and industrial sensors needing to talk to each other smoothly, having fast and reliable communication is crucial. This is where WebSockets...

Integration testing is a type of software testing essential for validating the interactions between different components of an application, ensuring they work together as expected. The main goal of integration testing is to identify any issues that may arise when these components interact with each other. What are these components?...

Over the last few years, Markdown has become a ubiquitous text-entry model for HTML text. It's creeping up in more and more places and has become a standard for documents that are shared and edited for documentation purposes on the Web. If you're using Git and GitHub in particular, you're...

Introduction Creating a CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) API in .NET 8 with an In-memory collection is a common scenario in web development. In this article, we’ll walk through building a complete .NET 8 Web API with a real-world use case. Prerequisites Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code (with .NET...

In this article, let’s learn about how to perform file upload in ASP.NET Core 6. The file for upload can be of any format like image (jpg, BMP, gif, etc), text file, XML file, CSV file, PDF file, etc. We will learn how to design a web page that allows...

As a developer working on your current project, can you answer the following question: can your system at current state handle a new client with x1000 client compared to your existing user base? Will you know that running in production system has performance issues? In this post I’ll describe how...

Kestrel Web Server in ASP.NET Core Application In this article, I will discuss the Kestrel Web Server in ASP.NET Core application with examples. Please read our previous article discussing the ASP.NET Core InProcess Hosting Model with examples. At the end of our previous article, we discussed that with the OutOfProcess...

In the second part of our series, the focus shifts towards validating the security and reliability of our ASP.NET 8 Web API through comprehensive integration testing. Integration testing plays a critical role in ensuring that our authentication mechanisms work as intended, under various scenarios and edge cases. We’ll guide you...

Welcome to the first instalment of our comprehensive guide on securing your web applications with token authentication using ASP.NET Identity in .NET 8. In this part, we delve into the backbone of our authentication system — the Web API. We will walk you through the initial setup of your ASP.NET...

Performance is paramount when developing web applications. A slow, unresponsive application results in poor user experience, losing users, and possibly business. For ASP.NET Core developers, there are many techniques and best practices to optimize application performance. Let’s explore some of these approaches in this article. Understanding performance bottlenecks When we...

You can’t miss these 50 questions if you are preparing for interviews. Last month I was preparing for the interviews and I have collated all the questions from different companies. Although there were many questions but I have picked top 50 that are asked regularly and are highly important for...

Follow me on Twitter, happy to take your suggestions on topics or improvements. Introduction Many third-party feature flagging services are available, or your internal team could develop its own feature flag service. For those who prefer standardization, following the OpenFeature guidelines is also an option. However, none of these solutions...