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Tim Deschryver
@timdeschryver.dev
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🏆 Microsoft MVP (Developer Technologies)
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✍️ Blogged: Using cookies for authentication in an Angular application

#Angular

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Using cookies for authentication in an Angular application
Learn how to simplify authentication in Angular applications by leveraging secure, cookie-based authentication through a Backend for Frontend (BFF) pattern. This approach eliminates the complexity of ...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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younesjd.dev
Karma is out of the pantry. 👋

Get ready for @vitest.dev & Browser Mode with #Angular 21

✨ New #testing cookbook chapter explaining why we’re back to the browser — and what actually separates:

👾 emulation,
🌓 "partial" browser mode,
🎭 & "full" browser mode.

cookbook.marmicode.io/angular/test...
Browser Mode | Marmicode Cookbook
The evolution of Angular browser testing and how to configure Vitest Browser Mode for both partial and full Playwright-powered testing.
cookbook.marmicode.io
November 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Reposted by Tim Deschryver
sinclairinat0r.com
What's new in C# 14!

Dustin holding it down \o/.

Null conditional assignments,
Inferred type in lambda expressions,
Field Access in auto properties!
Extension Blocks 🥹🥹 !

#dotNETConf
Null conditional assignments Field access in auto properties. Extension Blocks Example of showing extension block usage
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Reposted by Tim Deschryver
sinclairinat0r.com
Y'all know what today is !
##dotnetconf
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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brandonroberts.dev
🚀 Announcing @analogjs.org 2.0!

📜 Content Resources for @angular.dev
📦 Optimized Installs and Bundling
⚡️ @vite.dev ecosystem upgrades

And more!

dev.to/analogjs/ann...
Announcing AnalogJS 2.0 ⚡️
We're excited to announce the 2.0 release of AnalogJS! This release includes many features that help...
dev.to
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
timdeschryver.dev
✍️ Blogged: Write strongly typed Web API integration tests using Kiota and OpenAPI

#dotNET #Kiota #OpenAPI

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Write strongly typed Web API integration tests using Kiota and OpenAPI
Recently, I discovered Kiota, a tool that generates API clients from OpenAPI specifications, and it has significantly simplified my testing process. In this blog post, I'll share how I use Kiota to cr...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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✍️ Blogged: Refactoring a form to a Signal Form

I jotted down some notes of my experiences and thoughts while refactoring an existing Angular form to use the new Signal Forms (experimental feature).

#Angular

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Refactoring a form to a Signal Form
I jotted down some notes of my experiences and thoughts while refactoring an existing Angular form to use the new Signal Forms (experimental feature).
timdeschryver.dev
October 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Reposted by Tim Deschryver
alvinashcraft.com
.NET 10 Release Candidate 2 is now available | by Jon Galloway & the .NET team

buff.ly/rL3CJuJ

#dotnet #dotnet10 #blazor #aspnetcore #dotnetmaui #csharp
.NET 10 Release Candidate 2 · dotnet core · Discussion #10122
.NET 10 Release Candidate 2 is now available. This is our second and final release candidate which comes with a go-live support license so you can confidently use this release for your production a...
buff.ly
October 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
timdeschryver.dev
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...
www.angulararchitects.io
October 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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✍️ 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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October 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Reposted by Tim Deschryver
erikej.bsky.social
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
buff.ly
September 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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✍️ 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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September 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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✍️ Blogged: Secure your Yarp BFF with cookie-based authentication

timdeschryver.dev/blog/secure-...

#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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September 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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✍️ 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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August 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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✍️ 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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August 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
timdeschryver.dev
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...
github.com
August 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
timdeschryver.dev
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
August 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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✍️ 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.
timdeschryver.dev
July 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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davidfowl.com
🎉 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
devblogs.microsoft.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
timdeschryver.dev
It's been five years already, time flies when you're having fun!

Thanks again for the nomination Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen 🤗

#MVPBuzz
July 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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santoshyadav.dev
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

timdeschryver.dev/blog/eslint-...
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July 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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erikej.bsky.social
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:

buff.ly/IR0U60E
#visualstudio #sqlite #dotnet
June 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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devlead.se
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.
github.com
June 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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jeremydmiller.bsky.social
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…
jeremydmiller.com
June 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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vite.dev
✋ [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/...
github.com
June 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM