How to launch different browsers from VS Code for debugging ASP.NET Core
This post is about launching different browsers from VSCode, while debugging ASP.NET Core. By default when debugging an ASP.NET Core, VS Code will launch default browser. There is way to choose the browser you would like to use. Here is the code snippet which will add different debug configuration to...
Runtime bundling and Minification in ASP.NET Core with Smidge
This post is about enabling bundling and minification in ASP.NET Core with Smidge. Long back I wrote a post about bundling and minification in ASP.NET Core. But it was during the compile time or while publishing the app. But Smidge helps you to enable bundling and minification in runtime similar...
Connecting Localdb using Sql Server Management Studio
This post is about connecting and managing SQL Server LocalDB instances with Sql Server Management Studio. While working on an ASP.NET Core web application, I was using LocalDB, but when I tried to connect to it and modifying the data, but I couldn’t find it. Later after exploring little I...
Unit Testing ASP.NET Core Tag Helper
This post is about unit testing an ASP.NET Core tag helper. Tag Helpers enable server-side code to participate in creating and rendering HTML elements in Razor files. Unlike HTML helpers, Tag Helpers reduce the explicit transitions between HTML and C# in Razor views. In this post I am writing unit...
Implementing feature toggle in ASP.NET Core
This post is about implementing feature toggle in ASP.NET Core. A feature toggle(also feature switch, feature flag, feature flipper, conditional feature, etc.) is a technique in software development that attempts to provide an alternative to maintaining multiple source-code branches (known as feature branches), such that a feature can be tested...
Building multi-tenant applications with ASP.NET Core
This post is about developing multi-tenant applications with ASP.NET Core. Multi-tenancy is an architecture in which a single instance of a software application serves multiple customers. Each customer is called a tenant. Tenants may be given the ability to customize some parts of the application. The first aspect of multi-tenancy...
Seed database in ASP.NET Core
This post is about how to seed database in ASP.NET Core. You may want to seed the database with initial users for various reasons. You may want default users and roles added as part of the application. In this post, we will take a look at how to seed the...
CI build for an ASP.NET Core app
This post is about setting up continuous integration (CI) process for an ASP.NET Core app using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) or Team Foundation Server (TFS). For this post, you need to create an ASP.NET Core Web App project and Unit Test Project, so I am creating a solution file...