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• Blog WCF in the AI Era: Testing Legacy Services and Migrating to CoreWCF or gRPC

  A pragmatic WCF migration path: pin behavior with generated-client tests, lift unchanged contracts onto .NET 10 with CoreWCF (verified end to end), then move consumers to gRPC on your schedule.

• Blog .NET AI Engineer Roadmap 2026–27: From Modern C# to Production AI

  A stage-by-stage path to becoming a .NET AI engineer: modern C#, backend skills, LLMs and RAG, Semantic Kernel and MCP, Azure deployment, production AI and the projects that get you hired.

• Blog How to Implement Dependency Injection in .NET Core

  To implement dependency injection in .NET Core, register your services in the built-in container (IServiceCollection) with a lifetime, then declare each…

• Blog Azure for .NET Developers — Part 6: Azure Functions vs Background Services — When Serverless Wins

  The isolated worker model, honest cold-start numbers, and a practical decision table for Functions vs IHostedService vs container jobs.

• Blog Python for .NET Developers: A Practical First Project

  Coming from C#? Learn Python by building a small REST API with FastAPI — virtual environments demystified, Pydantic as your model binding, and a side-by-side C# to Python cheat sheet.

• Blog WCF Test Client: How to Test WCF Services with WcfTestClient.exe

  Find, launch, and use WCF Test Client: add a service by WSDL, invoke operations with complex parameters, read the SOAP XML, fix the classic quota errors, and know its limits.

• Blog Microservices Architecture Diagram and Patterns for Architects

  A microservices architecture diagram explained, plus the patterns architects use: service boundaries, API gateway, sagas, database per service, observability.

• Blog IDisposable, Finalizers and the Dispose Pattern in .NET

  Deterministic cleanup in .NET means releasing a resource the moment you are done with it, instead of waiting for the garbage collector. You get it by…

• Blog Compare DataTables with LINQ: Except, Intersect and Union

  To compare two ADO.NET DataTable objects, call AsEnumerable() on each to get a sequence of DataRow, then apply LINQ set operators: Except gives rows in the…

• Blog C# DataTable to CSV, List or JSON: Convert and Export in .NET

  Convert or export a C# DataTable to CSV, a typed List<T> or a JSON string with three reusable extension methods that handle commas, quotes and DBNull.

• Blog Azure for .NET Developers — Part 1: Subscriptions, Tenants, and Entra ID Explained

  The Azure mental model for C# developers: tenant vs subscription vs resource group, what app registrations really are, and how DefaultAzureCredential kills hardcoded secrets.

• Blog .NET Dependency Injection Object Lifetimes

  The built-in .NET dependency injection container ships three service lifetimes: Transient (a new instance on every resolution), Scoped (one instance per…

• Blog ASP.NET Core MVC Request Life Cycle Explained

  An HTTP request in an ASP.NET Core MVC app on .NET 10 flows through the Kestrel web server into an ordered middleware pipeline, gets matched to a controller…

• Blog Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 1: Clean Architecture

  Start the roadmap with a clean-architecture solution on .NET 10: domain entities with behavior, application-layer ports, infrastructure adapters, and a thin API — dependencies enforced by the compiler

• Blog Getting Started with ASP.NET Core Web API and Entity Framework

  Build your first ASP.NET Core Web API on .NET 10 with Entity Framework Core — scaffold models from SQL Server, add an async controller, and test with the built-in OpenAPI document and Scalar.

• Blog EF Core Migrations in a Separate Assembly

  To keep EF Core migrations in a separate assembly, move your DbContext and migrations into a class library, tell EF which assembly owns the migrations with…

• Blog MongoDB Docker Image: Run MongoDB in Docker and Connect from .NET

  Run MongoDB from the official Docker image with one command, keep data in a volume, and connect from .NET: queries, atomic updates, transactions and indexes.

• Blog Azure for .NET Developers — Part 5: Blob Storage, Queues, and SAS Tokens That Expire Properly

  BlobServiceClient with DefaultAzureCredential, access tiers and lifecycle rules, and user-delegation SAS links that expire in minutes instead of account keys that never do.

• Blog Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 6: Docker

  Package the API as a container: multi-stage Dockerfile, layer-cache-friendly restore, non-root user, and the two real build failures you will hit — verified with a running container.

• Blog Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 5: Caching

  Cache the hot read path with IMemoryCache and GetOrCreateAsync, choose expirations, survive stampedes and invalidation, and know when Redis and HybridCache enter.

• Blog Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 4: JWT Authentication

  Issue and validate JSON Web Tokens in ASP.NET Core: token endpoint, bearer validation, role-based authorization, and the mistakes that turn tokens into breaches — with verified 401/403/200 flows.

• Blog Implement Repository Pattern with ASP.NET Core Web API

  Implement the Repository Pattern with ASP.NET Core Web API on .NET 10 — EF Core 10, DTO mapping with extension methods, async CRUD operations, and the built-in OpenAPI support with Scalar.

• Blog What Is AutoMapper in .NET Core? Usage and Modern Alternatives

  What AutoMapper is and how to use it in ASP.NET Core Web API, its 2025 licensing change, and modern alternatives: hand-written mapping and Mapperly.

• Blog RESTful CRUD Operations with ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs

  To build a RESTful CRUD API in ASP.NET Core, model each entity as a resource, map the four HTTP verbs (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) to read/create/update/delete,…

• Blog Render a Partial View with a Model in ASP.NET Core MVC

  To render a partial view with a strongly-typed model in ASP.NET Core MVC, use the <partial tag helper and pass the model through its model attribute:…

• Blog Cascading Dropdowns with JsonResult in ASP.NET Core

  Cascading dropdowns populate a second <select based on what the user picks in the first: choose a country and the state list refills, choose a state and the…

• Blog Azure for .NET Developers — Part 2: Deploy an ASP.NET Core App to App Service the Right Way

  az webapp up, GitHub Actions, Key Vault configuration references, deployment slots for zero-downtime swaps, and the gotchas that break first deployments.

• Blog The Paradigm Shift to Low-Code and No-Code Development

  Low-code and no-code (LCNC) platforms let you build working software mostly by configuring visual components and declarative rules instead of hand-writing…

• Blog Host an ASP.NET Core Web API in IIS

  Publish and host ASP.NET Core in IIS: the ASP.NET Core Module, Hosting Bundle, app pool settings that matter, and the 500.19/500.30/502.5 troubleshooting table.

• Blog Getting Started with ASP.NET Core MVC

  Create your first ASP.NET Core MVC application on .NET 10 — project structure explained, Program.cs walkthrough, default routing, and your own model, controller, and view.