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50 Free Developer Tools That Run in Your Browser, Built for .NET Work
A stack trace cleaner, a SQL Server plan viewer, a Serilog log viewer, JWT, appsettings and curl tools: 50 free developer tools that never upload what …
Softinbit Blog
Engineering notes from production
Engineering articles from Softinbit: .NET comparisons, cheat sheets, production recipes and postmortems. New articles every week — many of them come with a free in-browser tool to try what you just read.
The .NET Field Guide
MediatR vs Mediator vs Plain Handler Classes
Compare licensed MediatR, the source-generated Mediator library, and plain handlers with Scrutor decorators on the same endpoints, validation, and …
The .NET Field Guide
Replacing AutoMapper and MediatR After the License Change
A case study: inventory AutoMapper and MediatR usage, price the license against a rewrite, then move to Mapperly and plain handlers one feature at a …
The .NET Implementation Playbook
Adding a JWT Authorize Button to Swagger UI
Add a JWT Authorize button to Swagger UI or Scalar in ASP.NET Core: bearer scheme, locks only on [Authorize] endpoints, Swashbuckle 10 and .NET 10 …
The .NET Field Guide
AutoMapper vs Mapster vs Manual Mapping
Decide how Store.Api turns entities into responses and requests into updates, now that AutoMapper is commercial.
Zero to Full-Stack .NET
Thinking Like a Programmer: Turning a Vague Request Into Working Code
Go from a one-sentence request to a small, tested program without guessing what the business meant.
The .NET Field Guide
MassTransit vs Wolverine vs Raw RabbitMQ.Client After the License Change
Decide whether to license MassTransit v9, stay on v8, move to Wolverine, or write async RabbitMQ.Client code yourself after MassTransit’s licensing …
The .NET Field Guide
Modern C# Cheat Sheet: C# 10 to C# 14
Every language feature from .NET 6 to .NET 10 (C# 10 to C# 14), each with a one-line purpose, before/after snippet, and compiler trap.
The .NET Implementation Playbook
Issuing and Validating JWT Access Tokens in ASP.NET Core
Issue and validate JWT access tokens in ASP.NET Core with Identity: 15-minute HS256 tokens, account lockout, strict validation, and claim-mapping …
The .NET Field Guide
Upgrading a Production API from .NET 8 to .NET 10: What Broke
How one team moved Store.Api to .NET 10 before .NET 8 support ended, and the exact fix for every break they hit on the way.
Zero to Full-Stack .NET
Setting Up a .NET Developer Machine That Just Works
Install the SDK, SQL Server, Git, and Node once, pin them per repo, and stop losing your first week to ‘it works on my machine’.
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