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ASP.NET Master Resource-Based Authorization Fundamentals: Ensuring Record Ownership

Craig Johnson3 days ago010 mins

While Role-Based and Policy-Based authorization evaluate permissions globally or against user claims, many enterprise applications require finer control: Resource-Based Authorization. Resource-based authorization answers the question: Does the currently authenticated user have permission to modify or delete this specific database record? For example, a standard user should be allowed to edit their own blog post or…

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.NET 11 speed: Which Enhancements Are Important in Practical Applications?

Craig Johnson1 week ago026 mins

Benchmark data, runtime modifications, and low-level optimizations are frequently used to demonstrate gains in.NET speed. Although those specifics are helpful, they don’t always address the issue that developers truly deal with: Which performance enhancements in.NET 11 are most likely to be significant in a practical application? The workload determines the response. While a data-processing service…

EF Core N+1 Query Problem: How to Detect, Measure, and Fix

Craig Johnson3 weeks ago025 mins

If your EF Core application works perfectly with a small dataset but suddenly slows down as the amount of data grows, don’t immediately blame your API, server, or database hardware. The problem may be much simpler: your application is making too many database queries. One of the most common causes is the N+1 query problem…

Create an ASP.NET Core Web API with SQL Server Stored Procedures and Dapper

Craig Johnson4 weeks ago024 mins

In many applications, creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting data requires communication between the API layer and a relational database. Using Dapper and SQL Server Stored Procedures, we will construct a basic ASP.NET Core Web API in this post that carries out CRUD operations on a Department database. A straightforward layered structure is used in the…

Mocking Without the Refactor and Without the Wrapper

Craig Johnson1 month ago021 mins

When they begin mocking, the majority of.NET test suites encounter the same three obstacles. Ceremony is the first; your test consists of 40% wrapper types. The second is silence: the test succeeds for a reason unrelated to the behavior it purports to examine, the fake answers a call that no one intended it to receive,…

HTTP Connection in.NET 11 Eviction: DNS Failover Testing for Extended APIs

Craig Johnson1 month ago1 month ago022 mins

Outbound HTTP calls are made by the majority of ASP.NET Core apps. They could make calls to third-party platforms, cloud services, internal microservices, payment services, and authentication APIs. HttpClient often has a lengthy lifespan and depends on connection pooling for these applications. Reusing connections is a crucial component of effective HTTP communication as it eliminates…

Benchmarking .NET MAUI Startup After CoreCLR Migration

Craig Johnson2 months ago036 mins

One of the first things consumers notice about a mobile application is its beginning. If users spend several seconds staring at a splash screen before the first interactive panel displays, a feature-rich program might have great functionality but yet seem sluggish. Startup for.NET MAUI apps involves more than just loading the initial page: For .NET…

HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Production Benchmarking in ASP.NET Core 11

Craig Johnson2 months ago2 months ago012 mins

Over time, HTTP has undergone substantial development to enhance user experience, performance, and dependability. While HTTP/2 addressed many of the shortcomings of HTTP/1.1 by introducing multiplexing and header compression, HTTP/3 goes one step further by substituting TCP with QUIC, an UDP-based transport protocol intended to lower connection latency and increase packet loss resistance. Selecting the…

In ASP.NET, Caching Core 10: An Explanation of Distributed, Output and in Memory Caching

Craig Johnson2 months ago014 mins

One of the most crucial aspects of a contemporary online application is performance. Regardless of the level of traffic, users anticipate very instantaneous responses from APIs and online apps. But frequent database queries, external API calls, or costly computations for each request can easily turn into a bottleneck. One of the easiest and most efficient…

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Convert Outdated ASP.NET Applications to.NET 10

Craig Johnson2 months ago012 mins

Business-critical apps based on outdated ASP.NET technology are still used by many enterprises. Even while older apps could still work, they frequently have issues including poor performance, out-of-date dependencies, increased maintenance expenses, and decreased interoperability with contemporary cloud platforms. By switching to.NET 10, developers can update their apps and have access to the newest development…

ASP.NET Master Resource-Based Authorization Fundamentals: Ensuring Record Ownership

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Craig Johnson

ASP.NET Master Resource-Based Authorization Fundamentals: Ensuring Record Ownership

.NET 11 speed: Which Enhancements Are Important in Practical Applications?

EF Core N+1 Query Problem: How to Detect, Measure, and Fix

Create an ASP.NET Core Web API with SQL Server Stored Procedures and Dapper

Mocking Without the Refactor and Without the Wrapper

HTTP Connection in.NET 11 Eviction: DNS Failover Testing for Extended APIs

Benchmarking .NET MAUI Startup After CoreCLR Migration

HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Production Benchmarking in ASP.NET Core 11

In ASP.NET, Caching Core 10: An Explanation of Distributed, Output and in Memory Caching

Convert Outdated ASP.NET Applications to.NET 10