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Creating a HTMX and .NET Minimal API from scratch and adding necessary features like validation and error handling.

How to create an Azure SQL Server automatically that uses Microsoft Entra authentication, migrates the database using Entity Framework Core, and deploys out the infrastructure automatically with Bicep.

How keyed services can smooth over the factory pattern in dependency injection scenarios.

A common authentication pattern with Azure AD comes to a screeching halt because of backwards compatibility.

I use Bogus to demonstrate how fake factories can be used to easily create useful, random data, whether it be primitive types or complex objects, for use in testing and non-production data seeding.

A step-by-step guide to take your MVC project and spice it up with Blazor components - or even Blazor pages!

By default, EF Core’s DbContext is scoped. This will cause issues with asynchronous components accessing data in Blazor Server.

A case for an ORM compared to traditional ADO.NET and/or raw SQL scripts.

Learning, using, and extending the FluentValidation library.

A blast to the past with MVC5 and poorly maintained code