Thomas Ardal

TOC Time for a new post in our series about how to learn about .NET/C# and stay up to date on recent news. For this post, I'll introduce you to the newsletters I subscribe to. Newsletters may not sound hot, but it still notify me about new ...

We have re-built our integration with Zapier. In case you don't know Zapier it's an awesome product connecting more than 2,000 online services with a few clicks of a mouse. If you have used the old app, you will know that it didn't ...

While migrating the elmah.io app to ASP.NET Core, I had to re-implement the always signed in feature available to elmah.io users. It's a toggle that the user can set and as a result, he/she won't be automatically logged out of the application. ...

TOC Microsoft Azure is an awesome cloud platform. We have been hosting elmah.io on Azure since day one. To say that Azure is expensive is probably not fair. But the easy point-and-click interface and the advanced scaling options can quickly cause your bill to grow out of control. In ...

TOC Reading blog posts accounts for a great deal of my reading and learning about technology. Combined with videos from conferences, I feel like I'm up to date on new things being launched. But when I need to dig deep into a subject, I never get around reading ...

While developing the new ASP.NET Core based app for elmah.io, I wanted to make sure that everything is mobile friendly on a phone too. While emulators and the Device toolbar in Chrome get you part of the way, testing on a real device is inevitable. In this post, ...

When needing to implement authentication in ASP.NET Core, there are several different options. Almost all of the documentation and examples expect you to use ASP.NET Core Identify. For a SQL Server-based application, Identity may be a good choice. But a lot of applications don't need the ...

Time for some exciting news from your friends at elmah.io. Introducing elmah.io Heartbeats. We don't just want to be your go-to tool when needing to monitor web applications. All companies use a combination of tools and frameworks to create business value for their customers. Windows services, ...

I had to export some data to Excel from an ASP.NET Core website. I have been implementing a lot of exporting in the past with ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC. Supporting the same in ASP.NET Core was a good excuse to look at different possibilities and write ...