Category Archives: Essentials

Mads Torgersen and C# 13

Mads Torgersen, lead designer of C# joins me to talk about what’s new in C# 13 and much more 

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Creating APIs Part 8: Validation

Performance is king (well, after accuracy) in APIs. Sending a request to the Database only to discover that the request is invalid is a waste of resources. Thus, we want to validate the request as soon as it hits the … Continue reading

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Reboot!

This site has been quiet for a few months while I finish up my book (.NET APIs with C#). I’m happy to reboot both the blog and Yet Another Podcast, starting soon with an interview of Mads Torgerson (lead designer … Continue reading

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NDepend

A dive into an amazing program for developers: NDepend

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Scott Hunter – Aspire and more

Scott Hunter (VP Microsoft) joins Yet Another Podcast’s reboot to talk about Aspire, Azure and much more. Do not miss this episode… Aspire will blow you away! Links to follow. 

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API Part 7 – Swagger Comments

In the previous post, I introduced Swagger and showed how to set up your project for Swagger. In this post I will show how to add Swagger comments to annotate your program. In earlier posts we looked at the database … Continue reading

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I need winter to end

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API – Video 1

An experiment in supplementing the API material with video. This will be rough at first…

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.NET APIs Part 5 – All the CRUD APIs

In the previous posting we saw how to create an API to get all the cars in our database. In this posting we’ll look at the remaining CRUD (Create Review Update Delete) operations. As you may remember, we created a … Continue reading

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Mads Torgersen on C# 12

Super excited and proud to have Mads (lead designer of C#) back to talk about C# 12 

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.NET APIs Part 4 – Creating the APIs

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

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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