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C#

A collection of 10 issues

Sharing code using Service Classes in C#

The simplest way to share code in most programming languages is to use functions. But this is not always possible with modern C# because of all the Dependency Injection involved. The problem Consider the following static method that tells you if an email looks valid: public static class Utils { public

Containerizing a C# hello world app

I've always wanted to have my own little Kubernetes cluster somewhere and I finally decided to create one with Civo. But I had no idea what to run on it. So, this little post is about how I went about creating a hello-world application to run on my

Parsing an ASP.NET Core Identity password hash with JavaScript

Understanding how ASP.NET Core Identity stores passwords internally is useful particularly if you ever need to migrate to a different identity setup.

Build-time configuration for Blazor WebAssembly Apps using MS Build properties

.NET Core in general has a nice configuration API that I've been fond of since .NET Core 1.x. But since Blazor WebAssembly apps run completely on the client, the configuration works a little differently that one might expect. The way configuration using appsettings.json works is that,

Scripting your build tasks in C# using cake

Cake is the C# counterpart of gulp.js – they're both task based. Except, we don't generally pipe things in cake. From their website: Cake (C# Make) is a cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL for tasks such as compiling code, copying files and folders,

You don't need IConfiguration outside Startup

I'm writing this for those new to ASP.NET Core, based on what I see on StackOverflow. Most of what I've written here is already in the Docs, so check the links at the end of the post for detailed info. The ASP.NET Core Web

Producing and consuming infinite Tasks in C#

Let's say we wanted to run this forever. private static async Task DoTheThing() { await Task.Delay(2000); await Console.Out.WriteLineAsync($"{DateTime.Now.Ticks}"); } Since it returns a task, we could generate an infinite number of tasks by yield-returning it from a loop: private static IEnumerable&

C# scripts using dotnet-script

Quick posts on writing scripts using C#

C# REPL using mono or dotnet-script

Quite often, all I want to do is check if a single line of code does what I think it does.

Getting started with Identity in ASP.NET Core

Identity is a simple auth system and a great improvement over Simple Membership. If you're new to it, this exercise should help you get started. This exercise What we'll build: A simple auth controller using identity with login/logout actions for use by an SPA. GitHub: