Bill Boga

I never thought ordering of relational static fields and properties in C# mattered. And, then, I started getting NREs on a property I know was set to a static-instance… The setup public static vo...

.NET’s LINQ library has extension-methods that will return a default-value if not found in a collection. These are a great time-saver if you’re not guaranteed to find a match. The usual logic looks...

URLs are the bridges that connect our little island of a website to the bigger continent known as the Internet. Preserving URL integrity is the utmost importance for providing an excellent experien...

Several months ago, Bill Boga and I, realized there was a performance enhancement we could make in our infrastructure. We were utilizing IdentityServer and took notice that many of our APIs were va...

This post covers augmenting an authenticated User for use in middleware or when using the [Authorize]-attribute in an MVC-controller. There is an important pitfall to avoid which will produce unexp...

Requirement ASP.NET Core 2.2 or 3.0 Why can’t I do this in earlier versions? Read ASP.NET Core 2.2 First Look – Endpoint Routing and ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 2 to get a...

What is WSL? Windows Subsytsem for Linux (aka WSL) is an excellent tool for running Linux-based binaries natively in Windows. With the introduction of proper permissions, it has become even better...

I, Khalid Abuhakmeh, recently wrote about my Razor Pages first impressions and am mostly positive about the addition to the ASP.NET Core technology stack. Bill Boga and I are currently rewriting a ...

TL;DR Explicitly using SqlBulkCopy might never cause this problem since mapping is done manually, but NPoco’s usage does automatic mapping which might cause a problem. However, it’s easily fixab...

Referencing nested objects in your LINQ to SQL query does some pretty neat magic “behind the scenes”. But, there are occasions when its magic might leave you with unexplainable exceptions. By shear...

Picture a scenario where you want to page a large dataset and your LINQ statement has several Include-calls. The first few pages load fairly quickly, but the deeper you get into the results, the sl...

TL;DR Using ExecuteReader against SQL Server with a query using for xml or for json causes data to be chunked. A single call to ExecuteReader.Read() will not return the expected data (for anything...

Ideally, we would never have to take our site offline to do maintenance. All of our deployments would happen smoothly, and we could transition seamlessly into our new set of features. Once in a whi...

At Ritter Insurance Marketing, we use IdentityServer as part of our authentication strategy. It works great for our current needs. However, we noticed initial logins took longer than expected. We d...

This post originally appears on https://www.billboga.com/posts/namespace-changes-with-entity-framework-migrations. Note: this is only applicable for EF versions less than or equal to six. Version ...

Part I–Introduction Part II–Model Binding Part III–Validation In the first two parts of our series we described the general PATCH approach and delved into the details of our ModelBinder. I...

Part I–Introduction Part II–Model Binding Part III–Validation In Part I of the series, Khalid introduced how we are using our patch library. This included mapping the request-model to the ...

Part I–Introduction Part II–Model Binding Part III–Validation When it comes to HTTP verbs, there is no verb more controversial than PATCH. How, when, and why to use this verb is up to each...

Please note this information is current as of ASP.NET Core 1.0 RC1. Introduction The overall process of getting OpenID Connect (OIDC) working on ASP.NET Core 1.0 is similar to previous versions o...

At Ritter Insurance Marketing, we utilize IdentityServer3 for our authentication mechanism. It has been almost a year of hosting in Windows Azure with great success. While it has been a positive ex...

We wanted to create a tool that allowed non-GitHub user’s access to our GitHub releases with the hope that they would be more informed about the progress our team is making in squashing bugs, addin...