Blog - .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.

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.

There are many ways to bulk email, each with their own strengths. Learn how to bulk email with C# and .NET using SendGrid.

Learn how to provide default options into your .NET configuration to reduce redundancy

Learn how to configure your .NET applications better for sending SendGrid emails

Learn how to get the public full URL of your ASP.NET Core application

Learn how to generate full absolute URLs in C# and ASP.NET Core web applications.

Learn how to use multiple configuration sources, strongly-typed objects, and implement the options pattern in your .NET applications

Learn about what's new and old with the Twilio helper library for ASP.NET in version 5.73.0

You don't always need a phone number to send SMS! Learn how to send text messages using Alphanumeric Sender IDs.

Learn how bad actors can inject HTML into your emails in your C# .NET applications and how to mitigate it.

Learn how to use SendGrid to send account verification and password recovery emails in ASP.NET Core

You can use the SendGrid APIs to send emails, but you can also use SMTP with SendGrid. Learn how to send emails using SMTP, SendGrid C# .NET

Learn how to send emails from Azure Functions using C# .NET and the SendGrid Bindings

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

Umbraco is very extensible for ASP.NET developers. Learn how to integrate IndexNow into the Umbraco backoffice, so you can easily submit Umbraco content URLs to search engines that they will (re)crawl.

Learn how to schedule SMS with C# .NET and Twilio Messaging's latest feature: Scheduled Messaging!

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.

Twilio posts cloud communications trends, customer stories, and tips for building scalable voice and SMS applications with Twilio's APIs.

Learn how to send recurring emails with C# .NET using Quartz.NET and SendGrid's APIs