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ASP.NET Core

Creating a custom ASP.NET Core Output Formatter

If you follow my blog, you may also know that I’ve blogged a bit about Hypermedia.  Because I’m a fan, I’ve decided to start creating an custom ASP.NET Core Output Formatter to handle the Siren hypermedia specification (application/vnd.siren+json). All the code samples in this blog post are pulled from a sample application of the game Hangman.   I’m creating it in ASP.NET Core.  I will eventually pull out the Output Formatter and create a repo on GitHub and a Nuget. Output Formatter Since I’m handling Text, I’m going to be deriving from the TextOutputFormatter.  This requires you to implement two methods:… Read More »Creating a custom ASP.NET Core Output Formatter

.NET Video Tutorials

I’ve started a YouTube channel last year to provide some video content to many of my blog posts.  I’ve never really mentioned it on this blog, which seems crazy.  Primarily these are .NET Video Tutorials as well as recorded talks that I’ve done at various conferences. Please take a look and subscribe if this is up your alley.  I plan on providing regular content on YouTube as well as continuing to do so on this blog.  Video just seems like a natural extension to provide content that is generally on this blog. Popular Videos How to Self Host ASP.NET Web API… Read More ».NET Video Tutorials

Migrating to SDK csproj

The SDK csproj files introduced with Visual Studio 2017 are a much needed improvement to the project files.    If you are creating a new .NET Core project or a .NET Standard library, either with VIsual Studio 2017 or the .NET CLI via dotnet new, it will generate the new SDK csproj.  What isn’t very clear to many is that you can use the new SDK format with full .NET Framework apps.  So this post will point out a really simple way for migrating to SDK csproj. SDK Benefits First, if you are unfamiliar with the new SDK csproj, here are… Read More »Migrating to SDK csproj