# .NET Core

Open Telemetry for ASP.NET Core

The basics of how to configure Open Telemetry metrics, logs, and traces for ASP.NET Core and export the traces.

Posted - 3 min read

Deep Dive into Open Telemetry for .NET

How to use the Open Telemetry specification, tools and SDK's used to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) using .NET and ASP.NET.

Posted - 10 min read

A Simple and Fast Object Mapper

.NET Boxed mapper is an object to object mapper that is simpler and faster than Automapper and makes zero allocations of memory, thus making the garbage collector do less work.

Posted - 9 min read

Is ASP.NET Core now a Mature Platform?

ASP.NET Core a large developer base, a large number of GitHub projects, Stack Overflow questions, bloggers and companies who use it. It's a mature platform.

Posted and updated - 9 min read

.NET Boxed

.NET Boxed is a set of project templates with batteries included, providing the minimum amount of code required to get you going faster.

Posted - 2 min read

ASP.NET Core Caching in Practice

How to use and implement Cache-Control, Cache-Control Immutable, E-Tag, Last-Modified and If-Modified-Since Caching HTTP headers in ASP.NET Core.

Posted - 5 min read

ASP.NET Core Lazy Command Pattern

Move your ASP.NET Core MVC action method logic into lazily loaded commands using the command pattern, to reduce Controller complexity.

Posted - 4 min read

dotnet new Feature Selection

How to add feature selection to your dotnet new template using symbols (bool, string, choice, computed) and pre-processor directives.

Posted - 9 min read

Cleaning Up CSPROJ

I show how to make the new Visual Studio 2017 .NET Core based csproj XML concise and pretty for hand editing.

Posted - 7 min read

Cross-Platform DevOps for .NET Core

Learn how to use Cake, AppVeyor and Travis CI continuous integration build systems to perform cross-platform DevOps for .NET Core based projects.

Posted - 8 min read