I have been playing with automatically creating header images for some of our sites (like this blog) lately. While looking through different services, I fell in love with Bannerbear. In this post, I'll show you how to automatically create header images for your blog posts and/or website ...
Thomas Ardal
Meet Thomas, the founder and developer behind elmah.io. Thomas blogs about everything technical from C# and ASP.NET Core to machine learning.
How to generate header images for blogs and ASP.NET Core
Built-in rate limiting in ASP.NET Core vs AspNetCoreRateLimit
Since I learned that ASP.NET Core 7 and newer come with built-in rate limiting I have wanted to try it out. I finally had some time to check it out and here's what I've found so far. This introduces rate limiting in ASP.NET Core ...
How to download files from ASP.NET Core MVC
I have been implementing a couple of features lately that allow users to download files. During this process, I have visited various namespaces and possibilities with ASP.NET Core. In an attempt not to forget what I have learned and in the hope that this knowledge can be used by ...
How to get base URL in ASP.NET Core
You typically don't and shouldn't need to know where a web app is deployed. At least not from within the code of the web app itself. I keep seeing questions related to this, though. There are a range of reasons why this can still be relevant ...
Three NuGet packages to improve exceptions in .NET/C#
We love exceptions. Not in the oh-no-my-website-crashed kind of way, but all of the possibilities provided by exceptions and a good exception handling strategy. In this post, I'll introduce you to three different NuGet packages that will help you when dealing with exceptions in C#. .NET comes with ...
elmah.io launches two GitHub Actions in the GitHub Marketplace
While developing the ecosystem around the elmah.io API and App Store, we see an increasing interest and adoption of GitHub and the services around it. We have a range of integrations with GitHub that I’ll introduce you to later in this document. But first of all, I’m ...
Building a quick Reddit Blazor client without Reddit's API
When developing the new exception landing pages we recently launched (like insert exception link here), I wanted to pull some statistics from Reddit. While looking through various ways to integrate, I found an easy approach that I want to share with you in this post. You probably already know Reddit, ...
Deploying a MkDocs documentation site with GitHub Actions
In the previous post in this series about building documentation sites with MkDocs, I showed you how to host a site on GitHub Pages. We briefly touched upon GitHub Actions, the integrated build and deployment server available on GitHub. In this post, I'll continue the example and get ...
Hosting a MkDocs-driven documentation site on GitHub Pages
This is the second post in my blog series about MkDocs. If you haven't already, head over to Creating a documentation site with MkDocs since this post will build upon the site we created in that post. In this post, I'll show how to easily host ...