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Humanizer is a great open source library for taking things that aren't human friendly and making them human friendly, and it has amazing support for different locales and such. However, the default installation package includes a LOT of languages, and many times individuals are overwhelmed with the clutter that happens with it. Lets explore some procedures that you can use to trim this down.

There are many discussions regarding the cadence of upgrades and the burden of keeping up to date with the .NET releases, but that is all a topic for another day. Today, I want to take a moment and talk about the unsung heroes of constant updates: improved performance!

The most common deployment process for Windows implementations of .NET MAUI Blazor applications is to utilize the automatic MSIX package creation. However, there are situations where you may need to deploy your application as a simple exe so you can deploy it to the location of your choice or as in my case so that I could pass parameters at launch to the application.

Windows 11 added the ability to set up a Dev Drive that is targeted for key developer workloads, and after soliciting some experience from others, I thought I would try it out myself. The results were impressive and immediate, and something I'm rolling out to our entire team.

I recently wasted more time than I care to admit working through an issue where I was getting build errors that did not make sense. I was trying to set up the build/publish of a .NET MAUI application, and I wanted to inject my certificate using a GitHub Actions Secret, and it failed miserably; this post explores the issue and resolution.

So much has changed in the .NET Mobile Development world in the past few years. This blog post investigates the current process to migrate from Xamarin Forms to .NET MAUI. Including some helpful tips, links to documentation, and real-world feedback after completion of numerous transitions.

Not all projects will utilize OAuth or Azure AD, and .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid is no different! In this post I take a look under the covers at how you can implement you own custom solution for authentication within MAUI Blazor and take control of your application without ripping your hair out.

.NET 6 has been released to the public and among many new features, application performance has been turbocharged resulting in easily achievable performance gains by simply changing a build target and redeploying. The cheapest performance upgrade you can do.

Although a common project request, the creation of Excel documents from code can be a time-consuming endeavor. Introducing NetCore.Utilities.Spreadsheet which allows a single line of code to create consistent Excel exports.