This post is about getting started SignalR in ASP.NET Core. SignalR is a framework for ASP.NET developers that makes developing real-time web functionality easy. SignalR allows bi-directional communication between server and client. Servers can now push content to connected clients instantly as it becomes available.

This post is about developing ASP.NET Core applications with VB.NET. I started my career with VB 6.0, and .NET programming with VB.NET. When Microsoft introduced ASP.NET Core, people where concerned about Web Pages and VB.Net. Even though no one liked it, every one is using it. In ASP.NET Core 2.0, Microsoft introduced Razor Pages and support to develop .net core apps with VB.NET. Today I found one question on ASP.NET Core Web application template in VB.NET. So I thought of creating a ASP.NET Core Hello World app to VB.NET.

This post is about Razor Pages in ASP.NET Core. Razor Pages is a new feature of ASP.NET Core MVC that makes coding page-focused scenarios easier and more productive. With ASP.NET Core 2.0, Microsoft released Razor Pages. Razor Pages is another way of building applications, built on top of ASP.NET Core MVC. Razor Pages will be helpful for the beginners as well as the developers, who are coming from other web application development backgrounds like PHP or Old ASP. Razor Pages will fit well in small scenarios where building an application in MVC is an overkill.

This post is about running PHP on .NET Core with Peachpie. Peachpie is an open source PHP Compiler to .NET. This innovative compiler allows you to run existing PHP applications with the performance, speed, security and interoperability of .NET.

This post is about sending emails using Send Grid API in .NET Core. SendGrid is a cloud-based SMTP provider that allows you to send email without having to maintain email servers. SendGrid manages all of the technical details, from scaling the infrastructure to ISP outreach and reputation monitoring to whitelist services and real time analytics.

This post is about creating a tag helper in ASP.NET Core for displaying Gravatar images based on the email address. Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog.

This post is about ASP.NET Core authentication, which throws an InvalidOperationException - No authentication handler is configured to handle the scheme Cookies. In ASP.NET Core 1.x version, the runtime will throw this exception when you are running ASP.NET Cookie authentication. This can be fixed by setting options.AutomaticChallenge = true in the Configure method.