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Tim Deschryver @timdeschryver.dev · 3d

If you want to get exploring Signal Forms, I highly recommend "All About Angular’s New Signal Forms" from @manfredsteyer.bsky.social .

Thanks Manfred! 🏆

www.angulararchitects.io/blog/all-abo...

All About Angular's New Signal Forms - ANGULARarchitects

Dies ist Beitrag 1 von 1 der Serie “Signal Forms” All About Angular’s New Signal Forms Dynamic Forms: Building a Form Generator with Signal Forms Dynamic Forms built by a form generator have quite a h...

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Tim Deschryver @timdeschryver.dev · 7d

Thank you @lacolaco.bsky.social for the idea and the review!

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Tim Deschryver @timdeschryver.dev · 7d

✍️ Blogged: Using the new bindings API to test Angular components with Angular Testing Library

#Angular

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Using the new bindings API to test Angular components with Angular Testing Library

Learn how to make use of the new binding methods inputBinding, outputBinding, and twoWayBinding to set component properties in your Angular tests. This native integration provides better signal suppor...

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ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 10d

EF Core 10.0: Support for JSON Data Type in Microsoft SQL Server
#dotnet #efcore

EF Core 10.0: Support for JSON Data Type in Microsoft SQL Server

.NET, ASP.NET Core, Visual Studio, Azure, Jaliya Udagedara

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Tim Deschryver @timdeschryver.dev · 14d

✍️ Blogged: Forwarding authenticated calls to a downstream API using YARP

#dotNET #YARP

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Forwarding authenticated calls to a downstream API using YARP

A Backend for Frontend (BFF) typically communicates with downstream APIs on behalf of the user. In this post, we'll explore how to forward authenticated calls to a downstream API using YARP.

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Tim Deschryver @timdeschryver.dev · 28d

✍️ Blogged: Secure your Yarp BFF with cookie-based authentication

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#dotNET #YARP #BFF #Aspire

Secure your Yarp BFF with cookie-based authentication

Learn how to implement secure cookie-based authentication in a YARP (Yet Another Reverse Proxy) Backend for Frontend (BFF) architecture. We also cover why we should prefer cookies over tokens for authentication (spoiler, it's security related).

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Tim Deschryver @timdeschryver.dev · Aug 28

✍️ Blogged: Writing isolated (integration)tests with TestContainers

#dotNET #TestContainers

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Writing isolated (integration)tests with TestContainers

If you're having troubles with setting up or running your test environment, then this blog post is for you. We will explore what TestContainers is, what problem it solves, and why you should consider ...

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Tim Deschryver @timdeschryver.dev · Aug 15

✍️ Blogged: VS Code as a modern Full‑Stack workspace, Powered by Copilot

Why VS Code transitioned into my primary development environment. TLDR: extensions, integrations, and Copilot.

#VSCode #Copilot #dotNET #Angular

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VS Code as a modern Full‑Stack workspace, Powered by Copilot

Why VS Code transitioned into my primary development environment. The combination of its extensibility, the different integrations, and GitHub Copilot's capabilities has made it an ideal choice for my...

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Tim Deschryver @timdeschryver.dev · Aug 7

We just released #Angular #TestingLibrary v18.

There are no big changes, but this removes some of Angular's deprecated/removed features.

Thanks to everyone involved in this release 🙏

github.com/testing-libr...

Release v18.0.0 · testing-library/angular-testing-library

18.0.0 (2025-08-07) Features release v18 (#533) (4fea701), closes #530 #531 #413 BREAKING CHANGES The angular minimum version has changed. BEFORE: Angular 17,18,19 were supported. AFTER: Angula...

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Tim Deschryver @timdeschryver.dev · Aug 1

A little trick I just learn to make it easier to test a zoneless #Angular (v20) application, is to configure the providersFile to automatically add providers.

This is a feature we already had in Angular Testing Library, but it's nice to see that it's built-in now.

Bonus: setupFiles is also new

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Tim Deschryver @timdeschryver.dev · Jul 31

✍️ Blogged: Fire your Playwright tests on demand from the .NET Aspire dashboard

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#dotNET #Aspire #Playwright

Fire your Playwright tests on demand from the .NET Aspire dashboard

Let's see how to use WithExplicitStart to integrate (TypeScript) Playwright tests within Aspire's dashboard.

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David Fowler @davidfowl.com · Jul 29

🎉 A new version of Aspire just shipped, 9.4 and it's one of the biggest releases yet. Very proud of what the team was able to accomplish.

📣 Blog post - devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/annou...

📝 What's new - learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet...

#dotnet #aspire

Aspire 9.4 is here with a CLI and interactive dashboard features - .NET Blog

Aspire 9.4 is packed with new features, integrations, and improvements

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Tim Deschryver @timdeschryver.dev · Jul 18

It's been five years already, time flies when you're having fun!

Thanks again for the nomination Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen 🤗

#MVPBuzz

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Santosh Yadav | GDE 🅰️ | GitHub ⭐ | MVP @santoshyadav.dev · Jul 3

As usual, open source saving my time, I was struggling with migration to eslint flat config, and guess what, @timdeschryver.dev already covered it and shared a PR,

Tim rocks, be like Tim

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ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · Jun 16

SQLite Toolbox, my free extension for SQLite inside Visual Studio just got a new release, with support for latest SQLite drivers, SSMS 21 and next version of VS. Join 1.5 million developers using this tool already - watch this live demo:

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#visualstudio #sqlite #dotnet

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Mattias Karlsson @devlead.se · Jun 14

And soon just
dotnet app.cs
😎

github.com/dotnet/sdk/p...

Add support for `dotnet file.cs` (without explicit `run` subcommand) by jjonescz · Pull Request #48387 · dotnet/sdk

Resolves #49202.

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Jeremy D. Miller (The Shade Tree Developer) @jeremydmiller.bsky.social · Jun 2

Marten 8.0, Wolverine 4.0, and even Lamar 15.0 are out! jeremydmiller.com/2025/06/01/m...

Please RT, and thank you!

#dotnet #marten #wolverine

Marten 8.0, Wolverine 4.0, and even Lamar 15.0 are out!

It’s a pretty big “Critter Stack” community release day today, as: Marten has its 8.0 release Wolverine got a 4.0 release Lamar, the spiritual successor to StructureMap, had a cor…

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Vite @vite.dev · Jun 2

✋ [email protected] is out!
- Browser Target Changed to Baseline Widely Available
- Node 18 support dropped. Vite is now distributed as ESM only

Plus fixes and deprecated feats removals, preparing for rolldown. Help us test the beta and report back 🙏
github.com/vitejs/vite/...

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Tim Deschryver @timdeschryver.dev · May 31

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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · May 30

Text formatting in Notepad is beginning to roll out to insiders (including markdown support) 😁

Looking forward to you trying it out 😊

blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...

Notepad open with a random example of a document with multiple text formatting - showing a bold top of mind, and normal text below, and then a hyperlink to an article. The text is akin to a journal entry

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Minko Gechev @mgechev.bsky.social · May 28

🔥 Angular v20 is out!

‣ Stabilizing reactivity APIs and incremental hydration
‣ Integration with Chrome DevTools
‣ Improved type checking, simpler style guide, etc.
‣ RFC for an official Angular mascot ✨
‣ Way more!

goo.gle/angular-v20-...

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ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · May 21

Blog post: Presenting T-SQL Analyzer CLI - identify anti-patterns in SQL Server scripts with 140+ rules - T-SQL Analyzer is a free, open-source new command line tool.
#dotnet #sqlserver #tsql

Presenting T-SQL Analyzer CLI - identify anti-patterns in SQL Server scripts with 140+ rules

T-SQL Analyzer is a free, open-source new command line tool for identifying, and reporting the presence of anti-patterns in SQL Server T-SQL scripts.

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David Fowler @davidfowl.com · May 19

.NET Aspire 9.3 is here with copilot.

devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/intro...

#dotnet #aspire #copilot

.NET Aspire 9.3 is here and enhanced with GitHub Copilot! - .NET Blog

.NET Aspire 9.3 is the biggest release of .NET Aspire yet, with the introduction of GitHub Copilot directly into the .NET Aspire Dashboard, updates for integrations, app model enhancements, and more.

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Tim Deschryver @timdeschryver.dev · May 14

✍️ Blogged: ASP.NET 10: Validating incoming models in Minimal APIs

Using data annotations to validate incoming models in makes it easy to ensure that the model is valid before processing the request.

timdeschryver.dev/blog/aspnet-...

#dotNET

ASP.NET 10: Validating incoming models in Minimal APIs

Using data annotations to validate incoming models in ASP.NET 10 Minimal APIs makes it easy to ensure that the model is valid before processing the request.

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Rainer Hahnekamp @rainerhahnekamp.bsky.social · May 13

RxJS & Native Observables: A Direct Comparison
🔁 78-min deep dive:
1️⃣ RxJS implementation
2️⃣ Native equivalent
🧠 Also a great way to refresh your #RxJS skills (error handling, share, teardown, etc.)
📺 youtu.be/WLHyzCY_1Tc
📝 Article coming soon

Native & RxJS Observables: A Direct Comparison

YouTube video by Rainer Hahnekamp

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