ASP.NET Core

Protecting public forms in ASP.NET Core without annoying real people

A layered defence against form spam: honeypot field, signed fill-time stamp, Cloudflare Turnstile and per-IP rate limiting - plus two rules that protect other people's inboxes.

Fast search pages in .NET: stored procedures, Dapper and DataTables

The simple pattern we use for admin search screens on SQL Server: a parameterized stored procedure, Dapper to call it and jQuery DataTables to present it - and what to change when results get big.