#564 – July 06, 2025
and Publish–Subscribe Patterns
Using Weak-Referenced Event Managers and Publish–Subscribe Patterns
8 minutes by Joonatan Uusväli
In this article, we will explore the theory behind weak-referenced event managers, demonstrate their practical implementation in .NET using C#, and illustrate how these concepts can be applied to real-world scenarios—including a look at the ByteAether.WeakEvent library.
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ASP.NET Core TagHelpers: underrated feature
6 minutes by Alexander Zeitler
The article argues that ASP.NET Core TagHelpers are an underrated feature of the ASP.NET Core MVC framework, demonstrating how they can create custom HTML elements or attributes with encapsulated functionality. Alexander explains how TagHelpers can leverage Razor views for content generation, showing how they can be used for view composition in distributed systems or Vertical Slice Architecture to create decoupled, self-contained UI components.
Key Vault for aspnet core app secrets
10 minutes by Denni Tretyakov
This article explains how to securely store application secrets in Azure Key Vault instead of configuration files, eliminating the need to share sensitive information between developers and allowing secret changes without redeployment.
Exploring the features of dotnet run app.cs
12 minutes by Andrew Lock
In this post Andrew describes the new feature coming in .NET 10 for building and running a single C# file without needing to first create a .csproj project. He shows it in action, describes the features, and discusses the limitations.
Pluralizers in Entity Framework
14 minutes by Tore Aurstad
The article explains how to customize Entity Framework's pluralization service to support Norwegian language, which can be implemented via IPluralizationService. The author provides a complete implementation of NorwegianPluralizationService that handles Norwegian grammar rules for pluralizing nouns, with special cases for various word types including those with vowel changes, units of measurement, and family terms.
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