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 online courses. His latest book, Building APIs with .NET will be released early in 2025. Liberty is a Senior SW Engineer for CNH 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 Microsoft MVP.

Mike Kistler (Microsoft) on OpenAPI

OpenAPI is the framework of choice for documenting APIs OpenAPI support in ASP.NET Core API appshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/overview?view=aspnetcore-9.0 Generate OpenAPI documents at build-timehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/aspnetcore-openapi?view=aspnetcore-9.0&tabs=visual-studio%2Cvisual-studio-code#generate-openapi-documents-at-build-time The project file property to set the directory where the OpenAPI should be saved is “OpenApiDocumentsDirectory” and it is documented here:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/aspnetcore-openapi?view=aspnetcore-9.0&tabs=visual-studio%2Cvisual-studio-code#modifying-the-output-directory-of-the-generated-open-api-file This section contains … Continue reading

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Claude

There’s a new AI kid on the block (https://claude.ai) and he is very powerful for programming and many other things. At the risk of being obnoxious, here is what he said about me:Jesse Liberty is a well-known software developer, author, … Continue reading

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APIs with C# – Part 4 Options

NET provides support for passing options via environment variables, appsettings.json, and XML files. as well as command line arguments. In short, each higher level overrides the settings in lower levels. To add options: Create a public class and name it … Continue reading

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144,000 users

My site says we just crossed 144,000 users. I’m stunned.

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Turn the tables: 2016

Episode 50: The Technical Journey of Jesse Liberty   Episode 51: The Technical Wisdom of Jesse Liberty

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API – Functions Part 3: Routing

In the previous part of this series, we looked at creating our first API. But how do you determine which API is being invoked? This is accomplished with routing. If you have a Products class your entry (end point) might look … Continue reading

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API Part 2 – Creating An Azure Function

This is part 2 in our series on .NET APIs with C# – Functions. Find Part 1 here. In this part we’ll talk about how you build an Azure Function. Functions are another way of interacting with an API. Here … Continue reading

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James Montemagno on blending .NET application development

A fascinating discussion of building .Net MAUI applications with Blazor and JavaScript libraries. James’ enthusiasm is catching and he doesn’t disappoint in this interview. .NET Beginner Videos: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/videos Microsoft Learn Training: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/dotnet/ Workshops: http://github.com/dotnet-presentations .NET 10 – Next Page: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/next Bluesky: http://bsky.app/profile/james.montemagno.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@jamesmontemagno     … Continue reading

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Azure Functions – Part 1

This begins a short series on Azure Functions and Durable Functions from the perspective of building APIs. This is based on material from my book Programming APIs with C# and .NET that I wrote with Joseph Dluzen (to tell the … Continue reading

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Mads K. on Visual Studio

Mads Kristensen discusses Visual Studio extensions, and the use of CoPilot to get the most out of Visual Studio programming. 

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Maddy Leger on Aspire

Maddy is the program manager/ owner of Microsoft’s Aspire. This is new, exciting and powerful. More about Aspire 

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Best of JesseLiberty.com: Bayesian Probability

This from 2009: Yudkowsky poses the following canonical problem: 1% of women at age forty who participate in routine screening have breast cancer. 80% of women with breast cancer will get positive mammographies. 9.6% of women without breast cancer will … Continue reading

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