Converting GUID’s to Base36 and back again GUID’s, or Globally Unique Identifiers, are a common sight in URLs, used for identification or referencing specific resources. However, their traditional 32-character hexadecimal format is not the most pleasing to the eye in a URL. Optimally, a GUID should be converted to a Base-36 string that contains simple... » read more
Certainly! Here’s the updated version of the blog post with the “Before” code example revised to better demonstrate the use of a Tuple in the old way: Exploring C# 12: Embracing Type Aliases for Cleaner Code As a dedicated C# developer, I’m thrilled to delve into one of the most exciting features coming with C#... » read more
Generating CryptoJS compatible HMAC SHA256 hashes in C#
Like most, I’ve been playing around with the awesome capabilities of AI for developers. Recently we had to develop a small class library that would act as a specialized cache. Since I had a little extra bandwidth, I decided to have a little fun and see if I could get an AI engine to write... » read more
It’s been forever since I have posted a developer blog, to the point that I almost considered this site dead. However, once in a while you hit a problem that you spend just enough time on you feel compelled to help your community. I am an absolute fanboy of everything VoloSoft does, their frameworks for... » read more
Did you know that you can assign the value of an Enum from a different one?
Complicated data structures like Dictionaries can be difficult to two-way bind in a Razor page. Here's a quick sample showing you exactly how to do it
An enhanced Razor helper tag to display a Gravatar images or your optional locally uploaded headshot.
Learn how to support AJAX during exception handling in your .NET Core Razor and MVC pages. Optionally return a Json result instead of redirecting.
Given a EFCore entity object that has a navigation property, and the schema is built for a one-to-many relationship, but you want a navigation property to represent a single record based on a specific filter.