Guid format string from a string input extension.

Small Posts FTW Small but potentially useful solution to a problem I was having. Namely, how to generate a GUID from a string input where the Guid is always valid but unique for any given input string. I needed this for my RSS feed generator where I wanted to…

Adding a RSS feed with ASP.NET Core

RSS (and Atom) is still the only widely adopted format for syndicating content. It's a simple XML format that can be consumed by a wide range of feed readers. In this post, I'll show you how to add an RSS feed to your ASP.NET Core application. Creating the…

Adding Background Sending for Emails

##Introduction In my previous post I detailed how to send emails using FluentEmail and the SMTP Client. However one issue with this is the delay in sending emails. SMTP servers tend to be slow and can take a while to send emails. This can be annoying for users…

Sending HTML Emails from ASP.NET Core with FluentEmail

This is a fairly simple article but will cover some of the odness of using FluentEmail in ASP.NET Core to send HTML emails I haven't seen elsewhere. The Problem Sending HTML mails is itself kinda simple with SmtpClient, but it's not very flexible and doesn't…

A Blast from the past

This just popped up on Facebook, an old image of me in my office at Microsoft. Office at Microsoft A long long time ago in a country far, far away I was a lowly PMII at Microsoft. I was working on the ASP.NET team and was responsible for the release lifecycle…