End-to-End Testing with PuppeteerSharp - A Proper Alternative to Selenium

Modern E2E (End-To-End, using your site like users would) testing doesn't have to be painful. This comprehensive guide shows you how to use PuppeteerSharp for fast, reliable browser automation in .NET-covering everything from basic testing to PDF generation…

Background Services in ASP.NET Core - Part 2: Practical Examples

Theory is one thing; production code is another. In Part 1 we covered the abstractions—now let's see how they're applied in a real codebase. This article walks through actual background services from this blog platform: file watchers with Polly retry policies,…

Background Services in ASP.NET Core - Part 1: The Approaches

Every modern web application has work that shouldn't block an HTTP request—sending emails, processing files, syncing with external services, running scheduled maintenance. ASP.NET Core provides multiple approaches for handling this background work, from simple…

Using CSX Scripts for Quick C# Testing

Need to test a snippet of C# code without spinning up a full project? C# Script files (.csx) let you write and run C# code like a scripting language. No Program.cs, no .csproj, no build step - just write and run. Perfect for testing APIs, validating logic, or…

Why You Didn't Find This on Google (And How I Fixed It)

I've been running this blog for a while now, writing detailed technical articles on ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework, HTMX, and all sorts of .NET goodness. Yet my search rankings were... underwhelming. After finally investigating why, I discovered I'd been…