Strong Name Sign .NET Assemblies via SNK
Strong Name Signing is a mechanism in .NET development that ensures the integrity and authenticity of assemblies. It is based on a public-private key
Handle Yaml Files with .NET
YAML files are unfortunately part of everyday life for all developers these days; and although they are very error-prone and almost impossible to edi
Welcome to the new Visual Studio SLNX Solution File
For many years, there has been a lot of criticism of Visual Studio's current solution format. It is very difficult to read, it does not follow any st
Enable NuGet Audit for better DevSecOps in .NET
Auditing is becoming increasingly important in the everyday life of a developer; however, until now there was no particularly good way in .NET - even
ASP.NET Core Form protection with Cloudflare's Turnstile
TLDR; You can see the full sample in my GitHub repository BEN ABT Samples - ASP.NET Core Form protection with Cloudflare's Turnstile Turnstile is a
Use GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio to solve the .NET Moq drama and migrate to NSubstitute
It's now been a few months since the GDPR-drama and data-harvesting around Moq (Stop using Moq as a guinea pig to get feedback on and develop Sponsor
.NET Event Counters
.NET event counters are a relatively new API for collecting metrics from .NET applications. They are part of the EventSource and EventCounter namespa
Top 5 Git Commit Message Best Practises in 2024
When you join a project as a new developer, you see one thing above all: no standards for Git commit messages. Some put emojis in the message, others
Custom Azure Application Insights Telemetry Metrics with .NET
By default, Azure Application Insights comes with necessary and important telemetry capabilities to monitor the basic functions of an application and
Azure Communication Service - .NET Client with Managed Identity
The Azure Communication Service is a fairly new but already popular service for sending emails at scale. In this article, I would like to show you ho
Azure Communication Service - .NET Client with ConnectionString
The Azure Communication Service is a fairly new but already popular service for sending emails at scale. In this article, I would like to show you ho
Header and Footer Layouts with Handlebars.NET
One of the last blog posts (Text and EMail Templates with Handlebars.NET) was generally about HandleBars.NET - a very popular template engine. This p
.NET Naming Best Practises: API Models
API models are one of the elements where I personally see the most naming errors - which have a massive impact on the architect and cause subsequent
.NET Naming Best Practises: Services vs. Providers
In many code bases there are Services and Providers - and often they do the same thing structurally; but what is the idea of a Service- and Provider-
.NET Naming Best Practises: Database Entities
Database entities are the objects that represent the tables in your database. They are the objects that you use to read and write the database. Namin
.NET Naming Best Practises: DTOs
Often seen, often used incorrectly: DTOs. Data Transfer Objects. In principle, DTO is an umbrella term, a design pattern that is used to transfer dat