Building your own email server is a rite of passage for many developers. It’s also a fantastic way to learn exactly how internet email works. In this post, we’re going to cover the code contained in my BlazorSMTPServer repository . We will walk through how email actually works, why sending it is so much harder than receiving it, and how to build a casual solution using Blazor and Azure. Important Note: This project is for educational purposes and personal experimentation. This is n

Over the past years I’ve been experimenting and building applications that use generative AI. In this post I’ll be sharing some of the challenges and limitations I’ve discovered along the way, and most importantly, how I overcome them. The main problems I have found with AI, are in basically three areas: AI can’t do math very well AI can’t write stories very well AI can’t create applications very well Who Am I? I’ve been working with AI coding for about three years now,

The era of intelligent, AI-assisted development has arrived—and with the power of .NET , large language models , and Microsoft Copilot in Visual Studio Code , building sophisticated business tools has never been more accessible. By integrating Copilot directly into your VS Code workflow, you can accelerate your coding. In this post, we’ll walk through how to create an AI-powered Request for Proposals (RFP) response writer that blends the performance and flexibility of .NET with the n

You can use Blazor with Aspire and Visual Studio Code .   Install Visual Studio Code One of the advantages of using Visual Studio Code rather than Visual Studio , is that Visual Studio Code is lightweight and runs on more platforms. Go to: https://code.visualstudio.com/download to download and install Visual Studio Code for your OS.   Launch VS Code after installation.   Install the C# Dev Kit Extension In Visual Stu

You can easily implement external authentication providers to allow the users of your Blazor application to log in with Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and many others. Simply follow the directions here: Facebook and Google authentication in ASP.NET Core | Microsoft Docs . However, you have to write custom code to associate an external login to an existing login. The method, covered here, will ask the user to enter the password of the existing account to make the association. Note: