Jaliya Udagedara

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Jaliya Udagedara

Jaliya Udagedara

Building with the Microsoft stack; Microsoft MVP

Recent Blog Posts

ASP.NET Core 11.0: Async Validation in Minimal APIs

July 17, 2026 9:13 AM

In this post, let's have a look at asynchronous validation support for Minimal APIs, which is going to be available in ASP.NET Core 11.0. Some time ba...

Received Microsoft MVP Award in Developer Technologies

July 16, 2026 12:55 AM

I am humbled and honored once again to receive the precious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for the 13th consecutive year.As always l...

.NET Options Validation in Application Startup

July 02, 2026 7:22 PM

In this post, let's have a look at how we can validate options in application startup in a .NET application. The Options pattern lets us bind a config...

Running Containers on WSL with C#

June 29, 2026 10:02 PM

In this post, let's have a look at WSL Containers, which is now available for public preview, and see how we can programmatically start a container on...

C# 15.0: Closed Class Hierarchies

June 25, 2026 10:46 AM

In this post, let's have a look at a nice new C# language feature: Closed Class Hierarchies that's shipping as part of C# 15. I am using .NET 11 Previ...

Using Microsoft Entra ID Workload Identity Federation (WIF) to Deploy from GitHub Actions to Azure

June 18, 2026 10:06 AM

In this post, let's have a look at how to deploy to Azure from GitHub Actions without storing any secrets, using Microsoft Entra ID Workload Identity ...