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I wrote a Tiny Virtual Operating System for a 300-level OS class in C# for college back in 2001 (?) and later moved it to VB.NET in 2002. This is all pre-.NET Core, and on early .NET 1.1 or 2.0 on Windows. I moved it to GitHub 5 years ago and ported it to .NET Core 2.0 at the time. At this point it ...

At our house, we use home automation for a lot of different things. One of them is the ability to get a quick overview of the state of our appliances such as the washer, dryer and dishwasher. That way we don’t accidentally forget to turn over the laundry or empty the dishwasher. A red tile on our ...

After showing some pictures of our smart home dashboard, questions started coming in about the cables going in behind the books. Where is the modem and what else is going on? Spoiler alert, the books are fake. Here you see a couple of cables going in behind the books on the top shelve. Removing...

I’ve had some questions lately about how we keep track of all the home automation devices spread across the house. So, I thought I’d share how our dashboard is set up. The dashboard is the web-based SharpTools that runs in Fully Kiosk Browser on an Amazon Fire Tablet HD 10 which is magnetically atta...

Hey! It’s been a few years since I last blogged here! Let’s get this blog thing back in action, starting with something non-technical that I’ve had a few requests for – my story of two years of daily exercise. Happy New Year! Today’s a day where half the world contempla...

Motion, contact, and light sensors are the most commonly used sensors for home automations in my house. With these sensors, you can make a wide variety of automations. But there are so many different manufacturers, protocols, and price points that it can be hard to choose which devices to buy and us...

Here are a bunch of home automation ideas for your inspiration. These are examples of automation rules that have worked well for my family. They might work well for yours too. The ideas are technology agnostic and describe the concept rather than the exact implementation. They should work with just...

After having spent a lot of time and effort installing smart devices throughout my entire house and automating them, I’ve learned a lot of do’s and don’ts. It’s been a long process of trial and error to come up with the right automations that work for all scenarios. Along the...

Andrew Lock shares feedback on and lessons learned from his previous posts about running async tasks on app startup....

Khalid Abuhakmeh deploys an ASP.NET Core application, which is hosted InProcess and utilizes IIS, to Azure....

Dominick Baier looks at various solutions to secure SPAs and settles on a combination of server-side OpenID Connect, SameSite, automatic token management, and ProxyKit....

Oli Giss shares dotnet http-security-check, a .NET Core global tool to do a http request/response security assessment....

Matteo Locher moved to the OpenID Connect provider (OIDC) from the Google+ APIs which are about to be retired....

Sam Basu dives into what the DevReach conference offered for the latest in .NET development, and shares links to each of the breakout sessions recorded in full HD....

Ed Charbeneau shares an instructional video series containing a hands-on demo of ASP.NET Core Tag Helpers with the help of Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core....

Joonas Westlin shows how authentication schemes work in ASP.NET Core by defining a custom authentication scheme....

Dominick Baier manages OAuth 2.0 access tokens in ASP.NET Core server-side web applications....

Paul Welter uses the Entity Framework Core Generator to create an Entity Framework Core data model for an ASP.NET Web API....

James Montemagno introduces the expansion of the ASP.NET community standups into the ".NET Community Standup" series, which spans multiple teams and products in the world of .NET and shows off the......

Chris Woodruff lays out how to rigorously test APIs to ensure the consumers have a great experience throughout updates....

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