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2. Creating an If Tag Helper to conditionally render content

   In this post, I create a simple tag helper to conditionally render content in a Razor page, equivalent to adding an @if statement to standard Razor.…

   July 24, 2018 in Razor ASP.NET Core Front End
3. Converting web.config files to appsettings.json with a .NET Core global tool

   In this post I describe how I created a .NET Core global tool to easily convert configuration stored in web.config files to JSON files for ASP.NET Core.…

   July 16, 2018 in .NET Core ASP.NET Core .NET CLI Configuration
4. Adding validation to strongly typed configuration objects in ASP.NET Core

   In this post I describe how to to verify your strongly typed configuration objects are correctly bound to your configuration at app startup…

   July 10, 2018 in ASP.NET Core Configuration
5. Building ASP.NET Core apps on both Windows and Linux using AppVeyor

   In this post I show how to take an existing appveyor.yml file and update it to allow building of .NET Core apps cross-platform using Windows and Linux…

   June 26, 2018 in ASP.NET Core DevOps NuGet .NET Core
6. Writing logs to Elasticsearch with Fluentd using Serilog in ASP.NET Core

   In this post, I describe how to customise the output of the Serilog Console sink so that you can pipe your console output to Elasticsearch using Fluentd.…

   June 20, 2018 in ASP.NET Core DevOps Logging Docker
7. Suppressing the startup and shutdown messages in ASP.NET Core

   In this post I show how to disable the startup messages shown in the console when you run an ASP.NET Core application using WebHostBuilder or HostBuilder.…

   June 12, 2018 in ASP.NET Core 2.1 ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core 1.1 HostBuilder Logging Docker