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2025

Using isolated CSS in Blazor components

Scope CSS styles to individual Blazor components using CSS isolation to avoid global style conflicts.

.NET Blazor CSS

2024

Controlling christmas spending with Semantic Kernel

Analyze receipts and track Christmas spending using Semantic Kernel, Azure OpenAI, and Blazor.

.NET Blazor Azure

Using containers to... keep track of Christmas presents' prices?

Automate Christmas gift price monitoring using Docker containers, Blazor, and a .NET API backend.

.NET Blazor Docker

Custom ValidationAttribute and Blazor validation

Create reusable custom ValidationAttribute classes for Blazor form validation with data annotations.

.NET Blazor

2023

Custom exception handling on .NET API

Build custom exception handling middleware to return clean error responses from .NET APIs.

.NET API

A nicer way to inject stuff

Organize .NET dependency injection registrations using clean IServiceCollection extension methods.

.NET Docker

Dependency injection with Attributes on .NET API

Enable dependency injection in .NET API action filters using TypeFilterAttribute instead of ActionAttribute.

.NET

Swagger documentation with external libraries

Enable Swagger to display XML documentation from models defined in external .NET class libraries.

.NET Blazor API

Cleanup local branches in Git

Delete all local Git branches except the main branch using a single PowerShell command.

Git

Updating Identity's routes in ASP.NET Core 7

Customize default ASP.NET Core Identity login and register URLs by scaffolding Identity pages.

.NET Blazor

2022

Custom attributes on .NET 6 Core API

Create custom ActionFilterAttribute classes to validate request headers in .NET 6 Core APIs.

.NET API

Handle loading components in Blazor

Build a reusable loading spinner wrapper component in Blazor using RenderFragment and ChildContent.

.NET Blazor

Getting the expiration date from a certificate

Programmatically retrieve SSL certificate expiration dates using C# HttpClient and X509Certificate2.

.NET Azure

Focusing an element in Blazor

Set focus on HTML elements in Blazor components using JavaScript Interop and element references.

.NET Blazor

Generate *.dacpac files from VS Database project in GitHub Actions

Automate dacpac file generation from Visual Studio Database projects using GitHub Actions pipelines.

CI/CD

Toggle themes with Javascript Interop in Blazor

Implement light and dark theme toggling in Blazor using JavaScript Interop and CSS data attributes.

.NET Blazor Docker

Uploading files to Azure Blob Storage in Blazor

Upload files to Azure Blob Storage from a Blazor app using the native HTML5 file input.

.NET Blazor Azure

2020

Overriding a core controller of Pimcore

Override core Pimcore controllers by creating custom Symfony bundles with service configuration.

Configure the Apple Magic Keyboard 2 on Windows 10

Install drivers and configure the Apple Magic Keyboard 2 to work properly on Windows 10.

Adding compiled libraries to a NuGet package

Fix missing DLLs in NuGet packages by including compiled library references in the nuspec file.

NuGet