Irresponsible ownership of data is the cause of many leaked emails, data, and other damaging information. Securing a user’s personal information is the job of software developers. If you, as a developer, can decrypt the information stored in the database of the system you are working on, then so can anyone else. In Cryptography in .NET Succinctly, Dirk Strauss will take readers through generating cryptographic signatures, hashing and salting passwords, and when and how to use symmetric vs. asymmetric encryption. 

This extension is optimized for developers who wants to develop ASP.NET Core 2 and Entity Framework Core 2. These code snippets contains C#, MSBuild, Razor and 

A self-contained app is a great way to share your application as all components, runtime, and framework are included with the application. All you have to provide is the application .exe file without worrying about the presence of framework or runtime installation status on other machines. 

At last week’s I/O Google unveiled DevLibrary, to add to its already wide range of resources for developers. The difference this time is that it's a platform intended to show off projects and tutorials that might otherwise go undiscovered. 

Writing Razor Pages in ASP.NET Core is easy, fast and fun. To really add to the productivity we want to have hot reload - a staple of Single Page Application frameworks like React or Vue. Let’s see it in action. 

Singleton design pattern is one of the simplest design patterns: it involves only one class throughout the application which is responsible to instantiate itself, to make sure it creates not more than one instance; in the same time it provides a global point of access to that instance. In this case the same instance can be used from everywhere, being impossible to invoke directly the constructor each time. 

This page describes how to use the Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Metrics package to perform source code analysis of .NET assemblies from a console application. Visual Studio users can perform source code analysis by clicking the "Analyze" dropdown menu and selecting "Calculate Code Metrics", but I sought to automate this process so I can generate custom code analysis reports from console applications as part of my CI pipeline. 

LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values. 

dotnet-format is a code formatter for dotnet that applies style preferences to a project or solution. Preferences will be read from an .editorconfig file, if present, otherwise a default set of preferences will be used.