Most of us use Visual Studio when programming in C#. You could also use Visual Studio Code, but I prefer Visual Studio. The latest version of Visual Studio is 2022 and the community version is free to use but misses a few unimportant functions. Although Visual Studio is packed with tools and options, a few are always missing. You can expand this IDE with extensions. But did you know you can create your own Visual Studio extensions with C#?

In the world of web application security, OpenID Connect plays a key role in streamlining authentication processes. But what makes it really tick? In this blog post, we dive deep into two critical security features of OpenID Connect – the state and nonce parameters – and how they are used in ASP.NET Core.

Only one month after the big release of .NET 8, the dotnet team is already working on the next iteration: .NET 9. With that also comes new language features. The first one is about to be merged into the main development branch: Params Collections.

Have you been tapping your fingers on the keyboard, continually baffled by the decimal data type in C#? Or are you just curious to know more about what it can do for you from an efficiency standpoint? Lucky for you, we’re about to unravel the mysteries of decimal in C#. Hold tight!

In this post I describe how I used the azcopy command-line tool to backup some files to Azure blob storage. This is somewhat outside my comfort-zone, so I'm most posting it in the hope people will drop suggestions/advice in the comments for things I could improve!