PayPal Checkout .NET SDK Verify Webhook Requests

May 1, 2023 - 4 mins read

PayPal has deprecated support for their .NET SDK, but it is not dead yet. Let’s verify some webhook requests.

Upgrade from .NET 6 to 7, Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection Missing Method Exception

November 17, 2022 - 2 mins read

System.MissingMethodException - Method not found- Boolean Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cryptography.UnsafeNativeMethods.CryptProtectData, easy fix.

Improved hashed string formatting in .NET 6.0 and higher with Convert.ToHexString()

November 10, 2022 - 2 mins read

With the release of .NET 6.0 and higher, you can improve the performance of hashed string formatting with Convert.ToHexString(). Let’s see a before and after hash formatting example.

Azure Storage Blobs .Net SDK v12 upgrade guide and tips

March 30, 2020 - 6 mins read

Updated 5/1/2020 - Let’s take advantage of the v12 SDK for Azure Blob Storage’s 227% improvement in downloading 1GB blobs over the prior versions. Here is the upgrade guide for a few common scenarios.

Get started with Swashbuckle/Swagger in a .NET web api to define dynamic types

February 29, 2020 - 6 mins read

Use OpenApi 3.0 documentation with Swashbuckle and configure your api to emit derived types from a base class.