If you have just started learning C# and .NET, you might be tired of simple demo apps that don’t do anything other than output “Hello world!” text on the screen. The good news is that if you have mastered the … Continue reading C# basics in practice – manipulating text files

.NET Core is the newest and the hottest programming platform in Microsoft stack. And this is the platform that Microsoft says that developers should use, unless they have a compelling reason not to. The biggest selling point of .NET Core over … Continue reading Differences between mono and .NET Core

With OpenLayers you can do many wonderful map-related things on your web page that you would normally use Google Map or Bing Map for. And, unlike Google or Bing, you won’t have to pay a penny to do so. In … Continue reading Applying clustering on OpenLayers map

My book, SignalR on .NET 6 – the complete guide, is out now! Also available in print. If you are using ASP.NET Core for web application development, you should get yourself familiar with SignalR library. And once you have, you … Continue reading Why you absolutely need SignalR for ASP.NET development

Blazor is a hot framework from Microsoft that makes it possible to run .NET code directly in browser on top of WebAssembly. And it is no longer an experimental project it used to be. It has officially made its way into … Continue reading Pros and cons of Blazor for web development

If you want to develop a website that has an interactive map on it, there are plenty of options you can choose from. Google and Bing maps are obvious choices, but both of them have a cost associated with them, … Continue reading Web GIS: Making modal pop-up on an OpenLayers map

As a software-building platform, .NET Core has already reached a sufficient level of maturity and can do many of the things that its predecessor – .NET Framework, can. Microsoft has even recommended to use it instead of .NET Framework, unless it’s absolutely … Continue reading Using .NET Core SDK projects in .NET Framework

.NET Core, which is pronounced as dot net core and is, sometimes, written as dotnet core, is a fairly fresh programming platform from Microsoft that is set to dominate Microsoft software development stack. Therefore, if you are enthusiastic about programming … Continue reading Learning .NET Core from scratch

For well over a decade, .NET Framework was the main software development platform that Microsoft stack programmers were using. As great as it was, it had one significant disadvantage – it could only be ran on Windows. This limitation has … Continue reading Playing audio on .NET Core with NetCoreAudio

This is the third and final part of the tutorial on building a platform-independent audio app on .NET Core. In the first part of this tutorial, we talked about setting up the general project structure and enabling audio playback capabilities on Windows. The … Continue reading Building .NET Core sound application – part 3