Welcome to Ryan Williams' Developer Blog
Redirecting WWW and Non-HTTPS Traffic with ASP.NET Core 2.0
January 28th, 2024
How to redirect traffic for WWW and non-HTTPS web requests to a canonical URL using ASP.NET Core 2.0 with 301 redirects.
Bundling and Minification with ASP.NET Core
October 28th, 2026
Bundle and minify CSS and JavaScript in ASP.NET Core: the classic BuildBundlerMinifier bundleconfig.json, the WebOptimizer replacement, and MapStaticAssets.
Unit Testing with xUnit.net in ASP.NET Core 2.0
January 28th, 2024
How to add and run unit tests using xUnit.net with ASP.NET Core 2.0.
Migrating from ASP.NET 4.6 to ASP.NET Core 2.0
January 28th, 2024
Details on how I migrated this website from ASP.NET 4.6 to ASP.NET Core 2.0 in one day.
Free SSL Certificates with Let's Encrypt on IIS
October 28th, 2026
Add a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate to an IIS site with win-acme: pick your site, let the scheduled task renew it, and fix the most common errors.
Creating USPS Shipping Labels and Scan Forms With ASP.NET
January 28th, 2024
How to buy USPS shipping labels and generate a SCAN Form (one barcode for many packages) from an ASP.NET site using EasyPost's C# client.
Developing and Automating a Podcast Radio Station
January 28th, 2024
An article on features and requirements needed for an implementation of a podcast retrieval and playlist generating console application.
Initial and Delayed Charges Using Stripe in C#
January 28th, 2024
A walk through on using Stripe to accept payments with an initial and delayed amount for an e-commerce product.
Traffic Manager In Azure With Cloud Services
January 28th, 2024
A short guide on setting up Azure's Traffic Manager with Cloud Services to get the lowest latency requests.
Custom Performance Counters in Azure
January 28th, 2024
An overview on adding custom performance counters to gather application metrics in Azure.