On Logging in ASP.NET Applications (Part 1...probably)

Logging is OF COURSE a critical part of applications however I often see it misunderstood / misused in ASP.NET applications. This is part post and part manifesto on how to effectively log in ASP.NET Applications. This is not a complete guide to logging;…

Blog Update

You may noticed my frantic frequency of posts (I was at two a day for a while month!) has slowed down of late so I thought I'd give a quick update. NOTE: Translation seems to have broken along the way, when I get a chance I'll fix that. Why the Slowdown? I…

A Copy Button For Highlight.js

In this site I use Hightlight.js to render code snippets client side. I like this as it keeps my server side code clean and simple. However, I wanted to add a copy button to each code snippet so that users could easily copy the code to their clipboard. This is…

Custom Config Section Extensions

It seems like everyone has a version of this code, I first came across this approach from Filip W and recently my old colleague Phil Haack has his version. Just for completion this is how I do it. Why? The why is to make it easier to work with configuration.…

A Newsletter Subscription Service Part 2 - Refactoring the Services (and a little Hangfire)

In part 1 of this series I showed you how I created a new Newsletter Subscription page. In this part I'll cover how I restructured the solution to allow for sharing of Services and Models between the Website project (Mostlylucid) and the Scheduler Service…