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I’ve never been a fan of mixing UI markup and code in the same file. Recently, while using Blazor, my code was getting a bit too complex to include in the .razor file. It took me longer than expected to separate it into a code behind. Here is what you need to do to separate the code behind from the UI.

I love using Docker to try out databases, caches, messaging systems, etc, usually accessing them from applications running on my host computer. Sometimes I want to run a .NET application in Docker, but I always have to root around for the Dockerfile!

Just for the sheer joy of it, here is a simple C# program that encodes Morse code messages and plays them on Windows and Linux.

Here’s a simple example of using a lock in a Web API action method. But you probably shouldn’t.

InfluxDB is a time-series database that is great for storing and querying time-based data. This post shows how to set it up with Docker and access it from a C# application.

By default, the Confluent Kafka client consumes one message at time, but with a bit of work it can consume batches of messages.

I usually want to run a task immediately, but there are times when I want to create a task, but not start it until later. This post will show you how to do defer execution of a task.

When sending a cancellation request to a method that returns a value, you must return a value or throw an exception. Here is how to throw the exception.

Here is an example of using a cancellation token to stop the execution of a method.

After you save an entity, you may want to send out a notification so other parts of your application can react to the change. This post shows how to do that with MediatR and Entity Framework Core.