I ditched Strava after its API shutdown and found something better: a self-hosted fitness database that actually respects ...

Westwind.Globalization (.NET Standard, .NET 4.5+): Westwind.Globalization.AspNetCore (.NET Core 6.0, 5.0): Westwind.Globalization.Web (.NET 4.5+): This library and tooling provides easy to use ...

GitHub Copilot for Azure just shipped with an important addition since its debut at Ignite 2024 as a private preview. The Visual Studio Code extension is no longer just an assistant -- it's now an ...

When we develop software, there is no hard-and-fast rule that requires us to use design patterns. In fact, in some cases, it may seem unnecessary or overly complex to introduce them. But here’s the ...

As developers, we’re always on the lookout for tools that make our lives easier and our code better. Whether it’s about improving efficiency or ensuring reliability, the right testing libraries can ...

Microsoft today announced the general availability of the open source Data API builder (DAB), which provides REST and GraphQL endpoints for Azure databases, some three years in the making. The ...

Take advantage of connection resiliency in EF Core to detect errors and retry commands and enable your ASP.NET Core application to overcome transient faults. A high-quality application must be stable, ...

A sample .Net 8.0 web API with React and Docker support project for demonstration purposes and as a starting point for a fullstack application. This project utilizes the .Net 8.0 SDK, React, and ...

When we build database-backed enterprise applications, we generally want to isolate our entity models, the DbContext, and the logic for database initialization and migration to maintain a clean ...

There is a factory that makes boxes. A key activity is cutting large sheets of cardboard into the standard sizes needed to make these boxes. The factory has several lathes doing this cutting work ...