Summary Using tuples with Dapper for simple query results can avoid the need to create classes or records that might otherwise bloat your code-base. Here's a sample repo: https://github.com/dahlsailrunner/tuple-with-dapper Background When you have an existing database or management practices that don't involve Entity …

Background I was recently trying to get LaunchDarkly to write its logs using our standard logging configuration - which is Serilog on top of Microsoft.Extensions.Logging. According to the LaunchDarkly docs, this was pretty straight-forward but it turned out to be trickier than I thought. The solution involved getting …

tl;dr: Just show me the code: https://github.com/dahlsailrunner/secure-authentication-is4 I just published a course regarding secure authentication in ASP.NET websites, and the course and its code repo focused exclusively on ASP.NET Identity (in both Core and Framework projects). An early question came up regarding how …

I’ve been preparing for a talk at Twin Cities Code Camp 2020 which will compare and contrast the more common and traditional OpenAPI or Swagger APIs (sometimes called REST APIs in a generally-accepted loose interpretation of the term) and the newer kids on the block: GraphQL and gRPC. Most of us are probably familiar …

First Forays into ASP.NET Core (2.0) I recently have been taking my first forays into ASP.NET Core and am liking what I’m seeing so far. The journey hasn’t been without curveballs, though, and I’ll be posting a few findings here. New Project using Kendo UI Core and TypeScript A project I recently set up using VS 2017 …