The Catch Block #3: F#, Eye Rolls, WFH, EF Core, and Unit Tests

In this edition: F#, eye rolls, board games, fish sticks, SQL, markdown gone wrong, habits, and unit tests.

ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT - Set Using a Web.Config File

Let's see how to set the ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT variable in ASP.NET Core projects using our old friend, the web.config file.

The Golden Rule of Variable Naming

One rule to rule them all, one rule to find them, one rule to bring them all, and in the darkness, name them.

The Catch Block #2: .NET 5, Visual Basic, NPM and Quarantines

NPM, Visual Basic, social distancing, URL rewriting, CQRS, and upcoming Blazor and .NET 5 goodness.

Implementing a Generic Dapper Repository in ASP.NET Core

Let's make a "base" Dapper repository in ASP.NET Core, which can expose data access methods and log exceptions, in order to clean up our code.