For the “churchee” Blazor application I’m working on, I wanted to have it so that the submit button only becomes active when the form is valid.

In Part 1 I covered a number of problems I had getting the build pipeline set up to detect drift between what EF Core expects and a source-controlled database project.

Getting a CI/CD pipeline in place for web apps in Azure DevOps is easy. Unfortunately, web apps often rely on these pesky things called “databases”… which are far less easy to integrate and have multiple integration approaches.

After spending a few years coding in the .NET space you will invariably collect enough acronyms to fill a can of Alphabet soup! Some play nice together, however at times you have to choose one acronym based methodology over another.

If you are new to dotnet, or want to stay up to date with what is going on in and arround that space there are some great resources out there, to help you on your journey. Microsoft themselves have done a great job with https://learn.microsoft.com and it is a great place to get documentation but there is a lot more out there that you can tap into to help you on your journey as a dotnet developer. This article is a list of the most resources that I have found most useful over the past few years. I hope you will find value in them too!

October was “Cybersecurity Awareness Month”, as such, I figured I would write a post on staying safe online… a month late in November!

Should you upgrade your project from a Net Framework application using Entity Framework 6 to a Net 6 application using EF Core 6? One of the biggest decisions as to whether you would go down this route which may require a serious investment of time is; will there be a performance benefit?

Blazor is great. It’s the new shiny. It enables the creation of client web apps by people who are good with C# and HTML. It’s for people who don’t want to have to learn Angular, React [insert latest JavaScript SPA framework or preference here] to create modern user friendly responsive interfaces, but use what they know.

How do you make a website as good as it can be? Well, there are a bunch of helpful tools available to help you do that and this will guide will point you towards a few of them.

As a web developer a lot of my time is spent in visual studio. So here is my top 3 Extensions that I think every web developer should have installed in visual studio.

The final entry in this list of nuget awesomness for ASP MVC 5 solutions is:

The 4th entry in the list of nuget awesomness for ASP MVC 5 solutions is:

This is entry number 3 of the top 5 nuget packages for ASP MVC 5 applications.

Continuing the series on great nuget packages for ASP MVC 5 solutions that I wish I had known about.

Over the past few years building ASP MVC solutions there have been moments when I thought…

For projects I work on from this point on I am going to (where possible) ditch JQuery. There are three big factors which made me come to this decision. They are…

If your website works with a www but not without one, your e-mails are not getting delivered or your website is not available at all… chances are you have a DNS problem…