Thomas Ardal

.NET 8 was released lately (at least when this post was written) and it contains lots of excellent features and improvements. A minor improvement that I was very happy to finally see in ASP.NET Core, is dependency injection using keys. A feature that I have been using in other ...

JSON files have become part of our daily lives. We use JSON files for all sorts of tasks like settings, defining database schemas, and much more. The other day I found out that invalid JSON files had been pushed to one of our repositories. So, I decided to include JSON ...

We have been using Azure Functions for years. Being able to easily deploy and run code on both Azure App Services and real serverless has been a killer feature for all of our asynchronous jobs and services. Unfortunately, the logging approach provided as part of the default template is not ...

Some weeks ago I wrote a blog post named How to modify response headers in ASP.NET Core middleware that explained how to set a custom response header in ASP.NET Core middleware. Since writing the post I had MULTIPLE people (okay, it was two people) write and ask how ...

I recently made some changes to the appsettings.json schema available on schemastore.org. I struggled a bit getting Visual Studio to pick up the recent changes, so here's a very short blog post for anyone with the same problem. For anyone not familiar with Schema Store, it& ...

I had a problem setting response headers in ASP.NET Core that I wanted to share some findings on. This might be clear to a lot of you but hopefully, this will help someone in the same situation as me. Here goes! In a small internal API, I wanted to ...

Developing extensions for Visual Studio has been somewhat hard previously, but it seems like the VS team is really trying to improve and simplify things. I've recently experimented with creating a custom debug visualizer for showing exceptions and in this post, I'll share some of the ...

Visual Studio is probably the tool I use most throughout my week. It's such a versatile tool with lots of features. The downside of the extent of buttons and options is that it offers some features that you didn't even know about it. I constantly discover ...

While developing the "new" canonical check feature for elmah.io Uptime Monitoring, I had to parse a website from C# and inspect the DOM. I have been using Html Agility Pack in the past so this was an obvious choice. I also looked at what happened in the ...