Hosting .NET Core Web Applications on Ubuntu Server with Apache
Background For a while, I hosted all my websites on a dedicated Windows server with 1&1 (now IONOS) which was perfect for me, as...
Blazor: OnInitializedAsync Null Exceptions
One of the first issues I encountered when building data-driven Blazor pages is the dreaded NullReferenceException when trying to reference...
Introducing Blazor
Introduction Okay, Blazor isn’t exactly brand new. First announced over three years ago, it’s been in public preview since...
Diagnosing IIS 500 Internal Server Errors
Recently I was tasked with deploying a new version of my company’s website onto a clean Windows Server 2012 host and encountered a...
Debugging Visual Studio Extensions
If you ever need to debug a Visual Studio extension to diagnose problems or just test that it’s behaving how you expected, it’s...
Implementing simple caching in MVC applications
Whenever I develop a new MVC-based website there is always a question of how best to implement caching so that it’s unobtrusive and...
Improving Entity Framework performance by tracking changes manually
Introduction While working on a recent personal project, I had the not-too-unfamiliar pleasure of fighting Entity Framework to try and get...
Generating service contract from static WSDL and XSD files
Recently I needed to generate a service contract interface for a third-party client based on their specification. My client would be...
Converting from Linq-to-SQL to Entity Framework Model First
Recently I switched hosting providers and had to update an existing project to work against a MySQL database instead of SQL Server. After...
