If you’re working on a project where you’ll be sharing code with someone else, particularly if you’re keeping the source code in a public repository, you’re going to want to make sure that sensitive data is separate from your project. This includes things like API keys, tokens for services and perhaps passwords or other similar data.

In this LIVE RECORDED video, Monster James has a look at the user-secret command and walks through using the command line as well as the tooling built into Visual Studio.

Here’s some other, related links:

• Configuration Settings in ASP.NET Core
• Configuration From a Database

In this episode, Monster James walks you through the basics of prototyping a new feature in your application without having to do the grunt work of creating all the data you need to light the feature up in your UI.

In this episode, Monster James walks you through the basics of prototyping a new feature in your application without having to do the grunt work of creating all the data you need to light the feature up in your UI.

GenFu is an open source library (created by the Monsters!) that allows you to save hours of work when you’re asked to create lists of data to support a test or prototype. When you build out a user experience it’s often better to have data that looks realistic, which is old-hat for GenFu. Need 10,000 rows of data in your DB? Yeah, it can help you do that, too.

Be sure to check out our follow-up episode when we dive into even more advanced use cases.

Check out GenFu:

• On GitHub
• On NuGet
• On a working try-it-out-for-yourself site

In this episode, Dave takes us through caching Razor output using the ASP.NET Core MVC Cache Tag Helper. We look at the different ways you can think about how to break down a page and how it can relate to optimizing your site’s performance.

While not everyone will need the benefit of output caching, any site with multiple web servers running, all accessing the same backend services should likely consider the merits. While other layers and services may provide their own approaches to minimizing resource-intensive lookups, this is just one other tool in the belt to help keep your site snappy.

In this episode, Dave takes us through caching Razor output using the ASP.NET Core MVC Cache Tag Helper. We look at the different ways you can think about how to break down a page and how it can relate to optimizing your site’s performance.

While not everyone will need the benefit of output caching, any site with multiple web servers running, all accessing the same backend services should likely consider the merits. While other layers and services may provide their own approaches to minimizing resource-intensive lookups, this is just one other tool in the belt to help keep your site snappy.

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.

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.

Dave walks us through building a tag helper that is made up of multiple parts. He shows us how to use the TagHelperContext to communicate between parent and child tag helpers while Simon engages in an epic battle with the mysterious green ooze.

Do you have questions? Yeah, so do we! Start a conversation below and we’ll learn together as we go.

Building and packaging is super fun with the new build framework in ASP.NET Core.  In this episode we take a look at how to hook into the various different stages of the build. There is a bit more about the build hooks at http://docs.asp.net/en/latest/dnx/projects.html#scripts

Build hooks are entry points into the build pipeline that allow you to interact with the build system, assets in your project or artifacts that result from the build. These are a powerful tool for developers and can be used for a variety of scenarios.

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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.