Matt's work blog | .NET development from Tauranga

It’s sometimes handy (e.g, in test suites) to have a JSON string hardcoded. If you want to interpolate it to insert a variable, use $$, like this:
Hopefully that helps someone.

I had a simple enough requirement, to display the name of the current environment in the title of a Blazor WASM web app.
The Blazor code was simple enough:
This displays “My cool app (local)” when debugging locally. I want to change it to “My cool app (dev)”, “My cool app (test)”, and “My cool app (prod)” in each environment it gets deployed to....

The default Blazor navigation menu is in NavMenu.razor. Its CSS is in NavMenu.razor.css, and contains such exciting classes as bi-plus-square-fill-nav-menu and bi-house-door-fill-nav-menu.
These are all Bootstrap Icons. Here I’ll show you how to add another Bootstrap icon to the NavMenu....

I was surprised to see that .NET 8 Azure functions don’t include support for ASP.NET’s Secret Manager aka User secrets aka secrets.json out of the box.
Out of the box you get this:
To add user secrets, you’ll need to install the Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.UserSecrets NuGet package, and then call .ConfigureAppConfiguration(), like so:...