Mike Brind is a practical ASP.NET blog by Mike Brind, featuring in-depth articles and tutorials on ASP.NET Core, Blazor, Razor Pages, and modern .NET web development.
19 articles from this blog
A tutorial on implementing a master-details view using Bootstrap Modals in an ASP.NET Core Razor Pages application with AJAX and Entity Framework Core.
A guide to integrating and configuring Sass (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets) within ASP.NET Core projects using Visual Studio and VS Code.
Explains how CSS isolation works in .NET 6 Razor Pages to manage page-specific styles without global conflicts.
Explains why ASP.NET Core 7 apps default to HTTP only and how to configure HTTPS for development, covering certificate trust and launch settings.
Explains how to execute asynchronous operations, like remote validation, when a value changes in a Blazor component, covering solutions up to .NET 7.
A developer explores and compares three libraries (iText 7, DinkToPdf, ChromeHTMLToPdf) for generating PDFs from HTML in ASP.NET Core.
A tutorial on creating a reusable, generic autocomplete component for Blazor applications, moving from a hardcoded solution to a flexible one.
A tutorial on building a custom autocomplete component for Blazor WebAssembly apps, including styling and live data fetching.
A guide to resizing images client-side in Blazor WebAssembly before uploading to the server, using the RequestImageFileAsync method.
Guide to incrementally migrating legacy ASP.NET Framework apps to ASP.NET Core Razor Pages using Microsoft's SystemWebAdapters.
Explains how to implement strongly typed middleware in ASP.NET Core using the IMiddleware interface, contrasting it with the conventional approach.
Explains how to integrate ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs with Razor Pages for efficient JSON data handling in web applications.
Explains the new minimal hosting API in .NET 6, where Razor Pages apps are configured in Program.cs without a separate Startup class.
A guide to handling date and time inputs in ASP.NET Core Razor Pages forms, covering native HTML5 controls and formatting.
A guide to implementing a custom TypeConverter for binding ISO 8601 week strings to a complex type in ASP.NET Core Razor Pages.
A guide to creating a custom model binder in ASP.NET Core Razor Pages to handle HTML5 week input type binding.
A tutorial on displaying images from a database in a Bootstrap Carousel using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages and Entity Framework Core.
A tutorial on implementing lazy loading for Bootstrap tabs in an ASP.NET Core Razor Pages application to improve performance.
A guide to implementing SEO-friendly localized URLs in ASP.NET Core Razor Pages using the RouteDataRequestCultureProvider.
