Mitch's Blog

Microsoft announced the future plans for .NET Core by announcing that .NET Core version 5 will be the next major version. With this announcement comes a lot of important news.

DNN Platform works well on Azure, however, initial installation or upgrade can require a bit of special handling to do things efficiently.

Proper monitoring and reporting on code quality can be an integral part of a development team's efforts to properly improve their code over time. NDepend is one tool that can help with this process.

As more individuals are migrating to .NET Core it is important to ensure that proper processes are put in place to map old URL's to new URL's for SEO and other considerations. We can quickly do this with .NET Core.

Software development encounters a constant struggle between ease of use and enterprise development practices. This post explores some common methods to bridge that gap and improve quality.

Often times we need the ability to execute background tasks within our ASP.NET applications. This could be ad-hoc type requests such as file processing, or regular processes for notification sending or otherwise. This is an easy process using HangFire.

It is possible to quickly create a process to build and package DNN Extensions using Azure DevOps. This post explores options to automatically version, build, and package DNN Extensions.

I reflect on the road ahead for the DNN Project as it moves to support .NET Core and evolves with the new technology.

With all of the change being introduced with .NET Core, I take a moment to share my perspective on what I think the future holds for those of us in the .NET space.