I was wrapping up the last-minute details for the launch of Azure DevOps Buddy a few days ago, and I came across a situation where I wanted to take a string that had formatted HTML in it and write the formatted result to the view. I’m sure you’ve been in…

Managing your Azure DevOps projects just got a whole lot easier. — This week, CloudNimble has been rolling out a bunch of tools that we’ve been building out for our app infrastructure. After almost a year, Restier 1.0 RC1 FINALLY made it to NuGet.org (the projects’ first major release in 3 years, and the first release since it was donated to the…

If you’re like me and you always want to be on the latest and greatest, you’d be surprised that the latest and greatest version of SQL Server installed with VS2019 is two major versions behind the currently-shipping version. It’s not very difficult to upgrade manually, but there are a couple…

We’re getting ready to ship the first version of our reference application for Electron-based Blazor apps, and in the process of upgrading to the .NET Core 3.0 final bits, I ran into a problem that detoured me for the better part of an hour. Since there is no other content…

One key scenario is still not covered by the new APIs. — When I heard about the new System.Text.Json APIs, I was intrigued. I’m a huge fan of Newtonsoft.Json, but the improvements in Pipes in .NET Core 2.2 meant there could be opportunity for some nice performance gains. I was really glad that Microsoft decided to do a usability study on their…

Harness the power of ASP.NET MVC to build Desktop apps that run on any OS. — One of the things that excites me most about the possibilities of Blazor is the potential for building apps with the speed and power of .NET and the ease of HTML, but running on any OS. Electron.NET has the potential to take that one step further by making your Blazor…

While working on my latest Blazor creation, I needed a way to be able to mimic a Response.Redirect and navigate the user away from the page. Web searches were of very little help, so I did what any resourceful developer would do: I dug into the source code. …

It’s no secret that Webpack has a rather extreme learning curve. Having spent nearly 20 years in the world of ASP and ASP.NET, getting my head around a compiler powered by the anything-can-be-anything world of JavaScript has been quite a challenge. In building out BurnRate, yesterday’s challenge was to complete…