Change the ServiceLifetime after the service has been added to the .NET ServiceCollection
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.NET
Learn how to change the lifetime of services already added to a service collection.
How to build a URL Shortener with C# .NET and Redis
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.NET
Learn how to build a link shortener using C#, .NET, and Redis. You'll be using ASP.NET Core to build the URL forwarder and the System.CommandLine libraries to manage the data.
Use XML Literals in Visual Basic .NET to generate TwiML
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.NET
Learn how to generate TwiML instructions to respond to texts and voice calls using XML Literals in Visual Basic .NET and ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs.
Use Raw String Literals to generate TwiML in C# 11
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.NET
Learn how Twilio uses webhooks and TwiML to give you control over how to respond to a call or text message. You can generate TwiML in many ways, and with C# 11 you can now also use Raw String Literals.
Use Visual Studio dev tunnels to handle Twilio Webhooks
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.NET
Learn how to develop webhooks on your local machine using Visual Studio dev tunnels and ASP.NET Core.
How to create an ASP.NET Core Minimal API with Visual Basic .NET (there's no template)
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.NET
Visual Basic .NET (VB) is not dead, but it's not getting the same amount of love as C# or even F#. Luckily, all that is .NET can be used by all .NET languages including VB, so you can still use ASP.NET Core and Minimal APIs with the VB language.
Find your US Representatives and Congressional Districts with SMS and ASP.NET Core
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.NET
Learn how to create an SMS bot that looks up U.S. Congressional Districts and Representatives using the Google Civic Information API, C#, ASP.NET Core Minimal API, and Twilio SMS.
How to get the full public URL of ASP.NET Core
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.NET
Learn how to get the public full URL of your ASP.NET Core application
How to generate absolute URLs in ASP.NET Core
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.NET
Learn how to generate full absolute URLs in C# and ASP.NET Core web applications.
What's new in the Twilio helper library for ASP.NET (v5.73.0 - April 2022)
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.NET
Learn about what's new and old with the Twilio helper library for ASP.NET in version 5.73.0
Integrate ngrok into ASP.NET Core startup and automatically update your webhook URLs
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.NET
Learn to integrate ngrok into ASP.NET Core's startup process to create secure public tunnels and automatically handle Twilio's webhooks with a single command
How to get ASP.NET Core's local server URLs
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.NET
Learn how to access the ASP.NET Core's local server URLs in Program.cs, in controllers using Dependency Injection, and in IHostedService or BackgroundService.
How to run Umbraco 9 as a Linux Docker container
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Umbraco
Umbraco 9 has been built on top of .NET 5. As a result, you can now containerize your Umbraco 9 websites in Linux containers. Learn how to containerize Umbraco 9 with Docker.
Deploying Umbraco 9 to Azure App Service for Linux
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Umbraco
Learn how to create the Azure infrastructure using the Azure CLI to host an Umbraco 9 website using Azure SQL and Azure App Service for Linux, and how to deploy your Umbraco 9 site.
Thoughts and tips on moving to Umbraco 9 from Umbraco 8
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Umbraco
.NET Core was a groundbreaking change to the .NET platform. It is blazing fast, open-source, and cross-platform across Windows, Linux, and macOS. With Umbraco 9, we finally get to enjoy all the new innovations from .NET Core. Read about my experience upgrading an Umbraco 8 website to Umbraco 9.
Guest on .NET Docs Show: Making Phone Calls 📞 from Blazor WebAssembly with Twilio Voice
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.NET
Earlier this week, the folks at the .NET Docs Show invited me over to talk about Twilio, .NET, and Blazor WebAssembly. We discussed different architectures, workflow diagrams, Twilio capabilities, and how to integrate them using ASP.NET WebAPI's and Blazor WebAssembly.
How to bypass Captchas in Selenium UI tests
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.NET
Captchas are often used as a way to combat spam on website forms. Unfortunately, this also makes it harder to verify the functionality of the forms using UI tests like Selenium.
To work around this you can extend your website with a bypass form.
Capture emails during development using smtp4dev and UI Test with Selenium
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.NET
You can use smtp4dev during development to prevent emails from going out to real customers. This tool also supports IMAP which you can use to query emails for automated testing.
Create ZIP files on HTTP request without intermediate files using ASP.NET Core MVC, Razor Pages, and endpoints
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.NET
The ZipArchive wraps any stream to read, create, and update ZIP archives. You can send the result to the client using ASP.NET MVC, Razor Pages, and endpoints.
Use project Tye to host Blazor WASM and ASP.NET Web API on a single origin to avoid CORS
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.NET
Using Microsoft's experimental Project Tye, you configured the proxy to forward requests to '/api' to the Web API, and all other requests to the Blazor WASM client.
How to deploy Blazor WebAssembly to Netlify
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.NET
Now that you can run .NET web applications without server-side code, you can deploy these applications to various static site hosts, such as Netlify.
Use YARP to host client and API server on a single origin to avoid CORS
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.NET
Using Microsoft's new reverse proxy "YARP", you configured the proxy to forward requests to '/api' to the Web API, and all other requests to the Blazor WASM client.
Introducing Online GZIP de/compressor, built with Blazor WebAssembly
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.NET
Using Blazor WASM and the GZIP API's I created this little web application which you can use to compress and decompress multiple files using GZIP.
Pre-render Blazor WebAssembly at build time to optimize for search engines
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.NET
Using pre-rendering tools like react-snap, you can pre-render Blazor WASM. Additionally, you can integrate these pre-rendering tools inside of your continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines.
Fix Blazor WebAssembly PWA integrity checks
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.NET
The service-worker-assets.js file is generated during publish and any modification made to the listed files after publish will cause the integrity check to fail.
How to deploy Blazor WebAssembly to Firebase Hosting
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.NET
With ASP.NET Blazor WebAssembly you can create .NET applications that run completely inside of the browser. The output of a Blazor WASM project are all static files. You can deploy these applications to various static site hosts like Firebase Hosting.
Interacting with JavaScript Objects using the new IJSObjectReference in Blazor
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.NET
A new type is introduced in .NET 5 called IJSObjectReference. This type holds a reference to a JavaScript object and can be used to invoke functions available on that JavaScript object.
Harden Anti-Forgery Tokens with IAntiforgeryAdditionalDataProvider in ASP.NET Core
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.NET
Using IAntiforgeryAdditionalDataProvider you can harden ASP.NET Core's anti-forgery token feature by adding additional data and validating the additional data.
Making Phone Calls from Blazor WebAssembly with Twilio Voice
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.NET
Using Twilio Voice you can add the ability to make and receive phone calls from your own ASP.NET web applications. Twilio’s helper library for JavaScript makes it easy to integrate client functionality into web front ends built with Blazor WebAssembly, and the Twilio NuGet packages provide you with convenient interfaces to Twilio’s APIs for server-side tasks.
Communicating between .NET and JavaScript in Blazor with in-browser samples
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.NET
The success of Blazor relies heavily upon how well it can integrate with the existing rich JavaScript ecosystem. The way Blazor allows you to integrate, is by enabling you to call JavaScript functions from Blazor and .NET functions from JavaScript also referred to as 'JavaScript interoperability'.
Real-time applications with Blazor Server and Firestore
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DotNet
Blazor Server is built on SignalR, which is built on websockets. Among things, websockets enable Blazor Server to push changes from the server to the browser at any time. You can build real-time UI's when you combine this with a real-time database.
Pushing UI changes from Blazor Server to browser on server raised events
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.NET
Blazor Server is built on SignalR, and SignalR is built on websockets among other techniques. The combination of these technologies allow Blazor Server to push UI changes into the client without the client requesting those changes.
How to run code after Blazor component has rendered
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.NET
Blazor components render their template whenever state has changed and sometimes you need to invoke some code after rendering has completed. This blog post will show you how to run code after your Blazor component has rendered, on every render or as needed.
How to run ASP.NET Core Web Application as a service on Linux without reverse proxy, no NGINX or Apache
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.NET
This article walks us through running a ASP.NET Core web application on Linux (RHEL) using systemd. The end goal is to serve ASP.NET Core directly via the built-in Kestrel webserver over port 80/443.