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About Jesse Liberty

** Note ** Jesse is currently looking for a new position. You can learn more about him at https://jesseliberty.bio Thank you. 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, is now available wherever you buy your books. Liberty was a Team Lead and Senior Software Engineer for various corporations, 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 13 year Microsoft MVP.

Scott Hunter – Aspire and more

Posted on June 2, 2024 by Jesse Liberty

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

Posted on February 15, 2024 by Jesse Liberty

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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.NET APIs Part 6 – Swagger

Posted on February 5, 2024 by Jesse Liberty

This is part 6 in a series about building APIs in .NET using C#. The previous (part 5) entry is here, and the series starts here. As you know, an API sits between a client and the back end. It … Continue reading →

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I need winter to end

Posted on February 3, 2024 by Jesse Liberty
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API – Video 1

Posted on January 19, 2024 by Jesse Liberty

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

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.NET MAUI Special Offer

Posted on January 10, 2024 by Jesse Liberty
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.NET APIs Part 5 – All the CRUD APIs

Posted on January 8, 2024 by Jesse Liberty

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

Posted on October 13, 2023 by Jesse Liberty

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

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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