Category: Development
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.NET Aspire and the future of .NET
In less than a year, .NET Aspire has made it from a preview release all the way through to General Availability and its inclusion in Visual Studio. The marketing keeps saying that the important part of .NET Aspire is that it makes apps “cloud-native”, but that is only a fraction of the story – and…
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Why Microsoft Orleans is important for .NET Developers
Small to medium sized development teams often grapple with the complexities of microservices architecture. While the distributed approach offers scalability and flexibility, it can quickly become overwhelming, especially without a large team to manage the infrastructure. Enter Microsoft Orleans, a framework designed to simplify building scalable, resilient, and distributed backends. This post delves into how…
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C# 11 and .NET 7 – early look at new features
.NET 7 is coming soon alongside C# 11. It’s possible to take a look at some of the new features now, including the bang bang (!!) operator and List patterns, which I think are really cool. Here is a video on the topic:
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Converting .NET 6 Minimal API back to Startup.cs
I’ve had to convert a Minimal API app back to Startup.cs a few times now. Here are some reasons why you might want to do it: Incompatible NuGet packages For example as of time of writing Amazon.Lambda.AspNetCoreServer doesn’t work with Minimal APIs. If you didn’t know that Amazon.Lambda.AspNetCoreServer.Hosting was what you needed for Minimal APIs, you’d…
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Handling and intercepting Back button Navigation in Xamarin Forms Shell
I’ve recently ended up needing to ask if the user really wants to navigate away from a page in my Xamarin app, Net Writer. Essentially whilst a post is being edited I don’t want the user to accidentally lose their progress, necessitating the need to inject a “Are you sure?” or “Confirm exit” prompt when…
