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Roundup #9: Razor Email Templates, AWS Lamba .NET Core 2.1, Contract First API Design with OpenAPI V3

Here are the things that caught my eye this week.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Walkthrough: Creating an HTML Email Template with Razor and Razor Class Libraries and Rendering it from a .NET Standard Class Library HTML emails are the absolute worst.  Inlined styles.  Nested tables.  Different apps and platforms render the markup differently.  It’s an absolute train wreck.  However, sending plain text emails isn’t a great way to impress your users and often makes emails look fake or like spam.  So fine, HTML emails. … Read More »Roundup #9: Razor Email Templates, AWS Lamba .NET Core 2.1, Contract First API Design with OpenAPI V3

Using Razor in a Console Application (outside of ASP.NET Core MVC)

In addition up to my previous post, Using ASP.NET Core Razor Views from a Class Library,  I wanted to also dig into how you can use Razor in a Console Application.  Basically from outside of ASP.NET Core MVC. The most likely situation for this is wanting to generate Emails using Razor that are being sent from a service or console application.  The other might be from another web framework/middleware inside of ASP.NET Core. To demo how to use Razor outside of ASP.NET CORE MVC, I’m going to use Razor in a Console Application.  Specifically I’m using netcoreapp2.1 for this demo but… Read More »Using Razor in a Console Application (outside of ASP.NET Core MVC)

Roundup #8

Here are the things that caught my eye this week.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. ASP.NET Core 2.2 Roadmap We are currently planning to have 3 previews before RTM: August – Preview 1 September – Preview 2 October – Preview 3 Before End-of-year – RTM As with our previous roadmap posts this is what we intend right now, but it’s subject to change as we continue development. Link: https://github.com/aspnet/Announcements/issues/307   Windows Command-Line: The Evolution of the Windows Command-Line Welcome to the second post in this “Windows… Read More »Roundup #8