The minification process is one of the most important steps to improve the speed of your website. The minification goal is to decrease the size of the files and resources sent to the users. This process implies removing unnecessary symbols, white characters, and redundant code. It also means rewriting your code to take up as little space as possible. For … Read more
Few ASP.NET programmers know search engine optimization. This article wants to be a short introduction for them. I will only present things that you, as a .NET developer, can do. I will don’t bother with what keywords to use. Your primary mission is to offer an excellent experience for your website users, and the SEO will improve. Measure the website … Read more
AVIF is a new image format that is similar to WebP. It offers better compression and more quality per byte. Big websites like Netflix use it to show images to users. Currently, AVIF is only supported by some browsers, but that will change in the near future. Why use the AVIF format? Using image formats like WebP and AVIF increases … Read more
Whenever I create a new ASP.NET website, MiniProfiler is one of the first NuGet packages that I download. MiniProfiler is like Dapper, a library offered by StackExchange, the owner of StackOverflow. This library gives me insights into how much time it takes to make a request. It shows you the trace of the execution thread and other insights that can … Read more
Hot Reload is one of the coolest features of the newly released Visual Studio 2022. It enables to apply code changes in debug mode or while is running without rebuilding the application. For me, this is a huge time saver. When I modify a windows forms application, I hit ALT+F10(hot reload shortcut) and my application has been modified. You can … Read more