Join us for a quick tour of the Documentation and GitHub repos for ASP.NET Core.

Back in Episode 7 we looked at creating custom tag helpers in ASP.NET Core MVC. This week, we take a look at a more advanced scenario where a custom tag helper can be used to cleanup our markup and help enforce consistency.

In our previous episode we had a look at the built-in mechanisms which we are afforded by virtue of using ASP.NET Core. Now it’s time to take a deeper look at a fundamental concept to modern logging - structured log messages - and how to take advantage of it.

So, you’re planning on sending your app out into the wild. Have you thought about what is going to happen when things go sideways? How will you recover when the excrement hits the oscillating device? Without having a reliable way to track down what went wrong, you’ll be in the weeds for sure, but logging will help set things right.

Ah, at last we get to running ASP.NET Core on a Docker image! In this episode the monsters start up their simple ASP.NET Core application inside of a docker container running on a virtualized Linux environment. Learn what goes into a Docker file and how Docker Machine makes all this possible on Windows.