Author Archives: Jesse Liberty

About Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen Pluralsight & LinkedIn Learning courses. His latest book, .NET MAUI For C# Developers will be released by Packt mid-April of 2023. Liberty is a Senior SW Engineer for CNH Industrial and he was a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer and a Xamarin MVP and a Microsoft MVP.

.NET APIs Part 4 – Creating the APIs

Posted on September 4, 2023 by Jesse Liberty

We are, finally, ready to create our ASP.NET Core application that will host our traditional and our minimal APIs. (This series begins here.) The code for this blog post is available here:git clone https://github.com/JesseLiberty/Cars.git Please note that WordPress seems to … Continue reading →

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File Comparison

Posted on August 28, 2023 by Jesse Liberty

In a previous post I said I was still looking for the right file comparison tool. I may have found it! I returned to ExamDiff Pro and voilà! the perfect combination of power and ease of use. I integrated it … Continue reading →

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.NET APIs Part 3 – Dapper

Posted on August 27, 2023 by Jesse Liberty

In part 2 of this series we created a simple database. In this part we’ll look at how to perform CRUD operations against that DataBase in anticipation of creating APIs for these operations. Dapper is a micro-ORM (Object Relational Mapper) … Continue reading →

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Talking Unit Testing

Posted on August 16, 2023 by Jesse Liberty

I’m interviewed by my old friend J. Tower (of Trailhead Technology Partners) on his Blue Blazes YouTube program, talking about Unit Testing. Lots of fun discussing an important topic. Tune in here.

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APIs in .NET – Part 2 – The Database

Posted on July 25, 2023 by Jesse Liberty

As noted in part 1 of this series, I will be building an application specifically to explore building APIs. To get started, I’ll want to build a back-end database. The application we’ll be simulating is a car dealership. Customers can … Continue reading →

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New Series: Creating APIs in .NET

Posted on July 16, 2023 by Jesse Liberty

While I’m still happily ensconced at CNH Industrial, I have changed my job. I’m no longer writing mobile applications (for the first time in about 7 years!) but rather am writing APIs using ASP.NET Core and C#. -The plan is … Continue reading →

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11th MVP award

Posted on July 7, 2023 by Jesse Liberty

Pleased and proud to have been awarded my 11th MVP award from Microsoft.

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Hey! I was interviewed on WebRush

Posted on July 2, 2023 by Jesse Liberty

I had the pleasure of turning the tables and being interviewed on WebRush with Jon Papa et al https://www.webrush.io/episodes/episode-240-theres-something-net-maui-with-jesse-liberty

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Writing a programmer’s cover letter: ChatGPT

Posted on July 2, 2023 by Jesse Liberty

https://www.packtpub.com/article-hub/writing-a-customized-cover-letter-for-a-specific-job-in-minutes-using-chatgpt

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Yet Another Podcast – De Sanctis on APIs

Posted on June 28, 2023 by Jesse Liberty

Today I spoke with Valerio De Sanctis, author of Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core.

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Writing Unit Tests with ChatGPT

Posted on June 13, 2023 by Jesse Liberty

Just posted on Packt: Writing Unit Tests with ChatGPT

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About that dozen programmer must-haves

Posted on June 11, 2023 by Jesse Liberty

I wrote this blog post in September of last year, and looking at it today I realized that I don’t use a couple of these anymore: 1) Resharper: the overhead was borderline too much and most of the refactoring power … Continue reading →

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