https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/categories/programming/ Recent content in Programming on MrCSharp Blog Hugo -- 0.152.2 en Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +1100 https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2026-02-07-dotnet-watch-and-aspire/ Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +1100 https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2026-02-07-dotnet-watch-and-aspire/ The weird behavior of .NET Watch when used with an Aspire project and .NET 8 https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2025-11-03-today-i-thoroughly-enjoyed-unveiling-dotnet-secrets-with-the-worlds-smallest-csharp-program-by-steve-gordon/ Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:00:00 +1100 https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2025-11-03-today-i-thoroughly-enjoyed-unveiling-dotnet-secrets-with-the-worlds-smallest-csharp-program-by-steve-gordon/ A very good talk about some low-level .NET concepts. https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2025-11-01-import-bacpac-into-aspire/ Sat, 01 Nov 2025 23:10:00 +1100 https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2025-11-01-import-bacpac-into-aspire/ Creating a custom .NET Aspire command to drop and import a BacPac file for an SQL Server database, making local development easier. https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2025-10-26-serving-multiple-spas-asp-net-core/ Sun, 26 Oct 2025 01:10:20 +1100 https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2025-10-26-serving-multiple-spas-asp-net-core/ Recently, I had a need to host 2 Single Page Applications (SPA) from the same .NET backend using ASP.NET Core. https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2025-04-12-track-source-of-transient-nuget/ Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +1000 https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2025-04-12-track-source-of-transient-nuget/ I recently ran into an issue related to source generation in `dotnet` when using the `FastEndpoints.Generator` package. https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2024-01-27-automatically-lock-pc-using-nanoframework/ Sat, 27 Jan 2024 00:49:52 +1100 https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2024-01-27-automatically-lock-pc-using-nanoframework/ There's something very exciting when working directly with hardware as a professional dotnet software developer that has spent over a decade developing for desktop, mobile, and web. It feels great being able to put my code on a small, low-powered, resource-constrained Microcontroller and have it solve a specific problem I have... or just do fun little projects. After all, it's why I got into programming in the first place. https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2024-01-28-controlling-my-ac-unit-with-nanoframework/ Wed, 12 Apr 2023 21:22:36 +1000 https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2024-01-28-controlling-my-ac-unit-with-nanoframework/ My room's AC unit (Panasonic) is quite old. It does a great job cooling/heating the place after all these years, but also lacks any "smart" capabilities found on modern units. https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2022-09-10-using-dht22-with-nanoframework/ Sat, 10 Sep 2022 23:51:00 +1000 https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2022-09-10-using-dht22-with-nanoframework/ I have recently discovered [Nanoframework](https://www.nanoframework.net/) which is a community-led project to bring C# and Dotnet to the world of micro-controllers. Since then, I have been tinkering with IoT and embedded devices using C# to connect with sensors and play around with them. https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2019-11-16-uwp-ioc-support/ Sat, 16 Nov 2019 15:36:15 +1100 https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2019-11-16-uwp-ioc-support/ I have been developing UWP applications for a few years now and I truly enjoy it. It's been the platform where I experiment with and used it to learn a lot about programming. https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2019-10-01-create-dotnet-node-build-environment-docker/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 22:06:36 +1000 https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2019-10-01-create-dotnet-node-build-environment-docker/ At the company I currently work for, our CI pipelines run on a dedicated server that we own and manage on premise. This build server is using Atlassian Bamboo and is configured to run the builds using agents running directly inside the host OS which means builds share and depend on components installed on the host OS. https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2019-08-31-dotnet-core-webapi-with-mssql-in-docker-part-2/ Sat, 31 Aug 2019 23:43:54 +1000 https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2019-08-31-dotnet-core-webapi-with-mssql-in-docker-part-2/ In the [previous post](/dotnet-core-webapi-with-microsoft-sql-server-in-docker-part-1/) I showed how to setup a Dotnet Core WebApi project to run inside docker. https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2019-08-24-dotnet-core-webapi-with-mssql-in-docker-part-1/ Sat, 24 Aug 2019 11:37:15 +1000 https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2019-08-24-dotnet-core-webapi-with-mssql-in-docker-part-1/ I have been hearing a lot of people talking about docker and all of the benefits it introduces and they got me interested in the technology. However, I only recently managed to get some time to play around with Docker. https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2019-08-10-the-start-of-soundsmatic/ Sat, 10 Aug 2019 19:11:52 +1000 https://blog.mrcsharp.dev/post/2019-08-10-the-start-of-soundsmatic/ Today marks the official beginning of the SoundsMatic journey.