Earlier this week, the .NET SDK and Runtimes received some updates. Together with that, also Visual Studio for Mac was updated. Once I got past the installation of all updates, both Visual Studio a...

After we have been setting up our Azure Function project last time, we are now able to create a base class for our Azure functions. The main goal is to achieve a common configuration for all functi...

Now that we have our Entity Framework project in place and our DTO mappings ready, it is finally time to create the API for our blogging engine. I am using Azure Functions for this. Out-of-Process...

In the beginning of 2022, I would never have thought of such a turbulent year. After all, we went more or less over the pandemic, and there were at least some positive signs that were sparking some...

We already have created our database and our entities, so let’s have a look at how we bring the data to our API consuming applications. If we recap, our entity models contain all the relations and...

EntityModel library When I started the project, I started with creating the classes for all the tables that I need for my blog engine. I have put them into their own library to keep things clean. ...

Preface Initially, this post should have been about the direct implementation and design of the data model for my serverless blog engine. As the data model became a bit more complex, I decided to ...

Microsoft’s SQL Server cannot be installed directly on macOS, like on Windows machines. Luckily, there is a not so complicated solution using a Docker container – provided by Microsoft themselves. ...

Motivation I was planning to run my blog without WordPress for quite some time. For one, because WordPress is really blown up as a platform. The second reason is more of a practical nature – this ...

As you might know, I am in the process of converting all my internal used libraries to be .NET MAUI compatible. This is quite a bigger task than initially thought, although I somehow enjoy the proc...