Muhammad Rehan Saeed

Software Developer at Microsoft, Open Source Contributor and Blogger

Structured Data using Schema.NET

Schema.NET is Schema.org objects turned into strongly typed C# POCO classes for use in .NET.

Posted 2 July 2017 - 2 min read

.NET .NET Core Bing C#Google Schema.NET Schema.org Search Engines Structured Data

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 8 April 2017 - 4 min read

.NET .NET Core ASP.NET Core ASP.NET MVC .NET Boxed .NET Boxed API C#Command Pattern Lazy

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 26 March 2017 - 9 min read

.NET .NET Core ASP.NET Core .NET Boxed C#dotnet new

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 18 March 2017 - 7 min read

.NET .NET Core csproj MSBuild project.json SDK Visual Studio 2017 xproj

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 28 January 2017 - 8 min read

.NET Core AppVeyor Build Cake Continuous Integration DevOps NuGet Travis CI

Custom Project Templates Using dotnet new

How to create project templates using dotnet new and the template.json file. How to share project templates by creating NuGet packages.

Posted 18 January 2017 - 4 min read

.NET dotnet dotnet new NuGet Project Template

Reactive Extensions (Rx) - Part 8 - Timeouts

Should you use Reactive Extensions (Rx) to do timeouts in .NET? It turns out it's better to use CancellationTokenSource in the Task Parallel Library (TPL).

Posted 2 January 2017 - 1 min read

.NET Base Class Library BCL Reactive Extensions Rx Task Parallel Library TPL

SEO Friendly URL's for ASP.NET Core

An SEO friendly URL is human readable and gives your site a higher page rank. Learn how to implement SEO friendly URL's using ASP.NET Core.

Posted 17 December 2016 - 7 min read

.NET ASP.NET Core ASP.NET MVC .NET Boxed Friendly URL Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Making Application Insights Fast & Secure

Implementing Application Insights into your ASP.NET Core application with performance and security as a top priority in this advanced scenario.

Posted 11 December 2016 - 4 min read

.NET Application Insights ASP.NET Core ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET Core Boilerplate C#Content Security Policy

The Dotnet Watch Tool

The dotnet watch tool is a file watcher for dotnet that restarts the application when changes in the source code are detected.

Posted 10 September 2016 - 2 min read

.NET ASP.NET Core ASP.NET MVC .NET Boxed dotnet watch launchSettings.json project.json Visual Studio