I recently made some progress on this blog and wanted to push the latest changes live. I've been using EF Core migrations to assist with any data related changes, and it has worked out very well in development. When it's time to push to production, I think it should also work just fine but nonetheless I want to see what others think about using EF migrations against a production database. So I found this StackOverflow question Is it OK to update a production database with EF migrations? The short answer is YES! Read More

When you create an Azure Web app, you are given an Azure website URL like mine fanray.azurewebsites.net, in this post I will show how to 1) use my custom domain fanray.com instead of fanray.azurewebsites.net and 2) buy an SSL certificate so my site URL can use HTTPS instead of HTTP. Read More

Fanray can be deployed to any environment .NET Core runs on, Azure App Service is the best choice for most web apps. In this post I will show you how to set everything up and running on Azure! Read More