Starting with version 5, Bootstrap introduced a rich set of SVG-based icons—lightweight, scalable, and perfect for modern web applications. Since the default Blazor WebApp templates already include Bootstrap, integrating these icons is a simple way to enhance your UI with clear, consistent visual elements. Using icons effectively can make your Blazor apps more intuitive and … Continue reading How-To: Use Bootstrap 5.3 Built-in Icons in Blazor
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Using Scalar with .NET9 WebApi Projects
With the latest release of .NET, you will notice that new WebApi projects no longer integrate with Swagger to provide a documentation web page. In .NET 9, Microsoft made a strategic decision to remove the default inclusion of Swashbuckle.AspNetCore (commonly known as Swagger) from Web API project templates. This shift is primarily due to the … Continue reading Using Scalar with .NET9 WebApi Projects
CSS Accent-color Element
This CSS rule applies the accent color uniformly across the entire webpage for interactive elements like links and buttons. This means you don’t have to style each element individually every time you want to use this color, ensuring consistency throughout your site. body { accent-color: green; }
How-To: Create Blazor Dark-Mode App with Bootstrap 5.3
Many web applications today support dark-mode display because users (and especially developers) enough the benefit of reading content with a dark background. Blazor apps that are built with Bootstrap 5.3 can easily support dark mode in their applications. In this article, we will only focus on defaulting the application to dark-model... a future article will … Continue reading How-To: Create Blazor Dark-Mode App with Bootstrap 5.3
Central Package Management with NuGet
Managing dependencies across multiple projects can get unwieldy, especially as the project count grows. NuGet's Central Package Management (CPM) feature aims to simplify this by letting developers define package versions in a single location. With CPM, you avoid the redundancy of specifying package versions in each project individually. Here, we’ll explore how to set up … Continue reading Central Package Management with NuGet
Secure Minimal APIs with API Key Authentication
If you’re building a .NET 8 application and want robust security, you might assume it requires a lot of complex authentication setup. But here’s the good news: you can implement API key authentication with just a few lines of code. With this straightforward approach, you can secure your services against unauthorized access quickly and easily. … Continue reading Secure Minimal APIs with API Key Authentication
Understanding await vs. ContinueWith in C# Async Programming
When it comes to asynchronous programming in C#, developers have powerful tools to make applications more responsive and efficient. By allowing long-running operations to execute in the background, we can keep the UI thread free for other tasks, resulting in smoother user experiences. Or when running those tasks on ASP.NET, the service can respond to … Continue reading Understanding await vs. ContinueWith in C# Async Programming
GitHub Action to Publish to NuGet.Org
Publishing a NuGet package to nuget.org can be automated using GitHub Actions, which is a powerful tool for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). This guide will walk you through the steps required to publish your NuGet package automatically every time you push a code update to a specific branch in your GitHub repository. Prerequisites … Continue reading GitHub Action to Publish to NuGet.Org
How to Make Internal Types Visible to Other Projects Using .csproj File
In many software development scenarios, especially when working with unit tests, you might encounter situations where you need to test internal types and methods within your code. However, internal members are, by default, inaccessible to other projects. The traditional approach to solving this problem in .NET is to make these internal types visible to specific … Continue reading How to Make Internal Types Visible to Other Projects Using .csproj File
Currency Input in Spectre.Console
I was trying this just the other day in Spectre.Console. I wanted an input prompt that would accept currency values. I started down the path of using a decimal representation (TextPrompt<decimal>). While that mostly worked on the input value, it does not support using negative sign, separators, or decimal places. I wanted to be able … Continue reading Currency Input in Spectre.Console
