Maarten Balliauw {blog}

We all know it’s important to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks against our application.

As discussed in the previous post, we all know it is important to perform validations to prevent a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack against our application.

As ASP.NET MVC developers, whether ASP.NET MVC 5 or ASP.NET MVC Core, we all know it is important to perform certain validations to prevent a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack against the application we are building.

At JetBrains Day Seoul, I had the opportunity to speak about Exploring .NET’s memory management – a trip down memory lane.

At JetBrains Day Seoul, I had the opportunity to speak about How to become a productive .NET developer with JetBrains Rider.

While I am a big fan of Autofac to serve as the framework for making Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection (DI) work in an application, it is quite convenient in simple projects to use the built-in dependency injection in ASP.NET Core.

At the VISUG User Group, I had the opportunity to speak about Approaches to application request throttling.

Yes, it’s 2018, us IT folks have probably been working remote for quite a while (full-time or occasionally), but there are other industries where these things take time.

Recently, someone asked me to look at their ASP.NET MVC application and help figure out why a certain request was taking 16 seconds to complete.

At Microsoft Build 2018, a number of Azure App Service on Linux enhancements were announced.

I have decided to retire from the Microsoft MVP program.

A while back, the Azure folks announced support for Java on Azure Functions.

The past few days, I’ve been working on some cross-platform C# code.

Last week, I did a tweet while at the Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, working on blog posts (part of my job) and drinking bad coffee.

In this post, we’ll look at writing a simple system for scheduling tasks in ASP.NET Core 2.0.

A while back, we were performance profiling an application and noticed a big performance bottleneck while mapping objects using AutoMapper.

A few weeks back, .NET Core 1.1 was released (and a boatload of related tools such as Visual Studio 2017.

Here’s a story on how I once used dotPeek to provide debugger symbols and (decompiled) source code for a crashed application for which we had nothing but the application assemblies available.

Two weeks ago I had a wonderful experience speaking at a small conference in Finland.

Since my posts on making code allocate less memory and memory allocation for strings were quite well received, I decided to add another post to the series: Exploring .NET managed heap with ClrMD.

A while back, I wrote about making code allocate less memory (go read it now if you haven’t).

The .NET Garbage Collector (GC) is quite cool.

At the start of 2015, I checked out from JetBrains to join Microsoft.

You may know (or not, shame on you!)

A while back, I signed up for the beta of Bitbucket Pipelines, a new continuous integration service from Atlassian, built into Bitbucket.

Twitter celebrated its 10th birthday this week, and those who have been on that social network long enough know that at least once a week there’s a massive outrage about something that, in the end, usually does not seem so bad.

In one of our production systems, we’re using Azure Websites to host a back-end web API.

Using Azure Web Apps, we can deploy and host Node applications quite easily.

I have been using Microsoft Azure Cloud Services since PDC 2008 when it was first announced.

How would you validate a new API is compatible with an old API?

Pretty sweet: MyGet just announced Vsix support has been enabled for all MyGet customers!

So you’re building a multi-tenant application.

December 9th, 2012., was my first day at JetBrains, after being in consultancy for a good 7 years.

You may remember my ranty post from a couple of months back.

I’m back on Windows Phone.

When working in larger projects, you will sometimes encounter errors similar to this one: “Could not load file or assembly ‘Newtonsoft.Json, Version=4.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed’ or one of its dependencies.

Some developers prefer to strong name sign their assemblies.

In a previous post, I mentioned that (finally) my Tessel arrived, “an internet-connected microcontroller programmable in JavaScript”.

Somewhere last year (I honestly no longer remember when), I saw a few tweets that piqued my interest: a crowdfunding project for the Tessel, “an internet-connected microcontroller programmable in JavaScript”.

Earlier this week, a sad thing happened to the version control hosting service Code Spaces.

NOTE: While the content is this blog post will still work, JetBrains now has a plugin that is the recommended way of working with TeamCity and build agents on Azure.

Last week, Xavier and I were really happy for achieving a milestone.

TL;DR: If you have multiple NuGet feeds configured on your machine, it may be worth to do some tweaking in the NuGet.config file shipping with your project.

During the past few weeks, I’ve been working on and off on setting up a build agent that can build as many open-source .NET projects as possible in an effort to learn how hard it is to do.

One way to remove friction from using NuGet in multiple projects is by making use of NuGet Configuration File inheritance, probably the awesomest unknown feature in there.

When building cloud applications on Windows Azure, it’s always a good thing to delegate as much work to specialized services as possible.

TL;DR: Using source control is a really bad idea.

Pfew!

Have you tried Glimpse before?

Today’s official Visual Studio 2013 launch provides some interesting novelties, especially for Windows Azure Web Sites.