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ASP.NET Core Architecture Best Practices Clean Architecture in ASP.NET Core — A Complete Practical Guide Stop writing spaghetti code. Learn how to structure your ASP.NET Core applications into clean, testable, and maintainable layers — with a complete real-world Product API example built from scratch. AS Adnan Shaukat May 18, 2026  ·  15 min read  ·  Backend Developer Every developer has worked on that codebase. You know the one — controllers that are 500 lines long, business logic mixed with database queries, and a codebase so tangled that changing one thing breaks three others. Clean Architecture solves this. It is not just a design pattern — it is a way of thinking about software that keeps your business logic isolated, your code testable, and your application ready to grow without falling apart. In this guide I will walk you through Clean Architecture in...

ASP.NET Core 10 Security Guide 🔥 2026 ASP.NET Core 10 Authentication Guide — JWT, Passkeys, Cookies & More A complete, production-ready guide covering every authentication method in ASP.NET Core 10 — with real C# code examples you can use today. AS Adnan Shaukat May 17, 2026  ·  14 min read  ·  Backend Developer Authentication is the most critical part of any backend application. Get it wrong and your users' data is at risk. Get it right and your app is production-ready from day one. ASP.NET Core 10 brings some of the biggest authentication upgrades in years — built-in Passkey (WebAuthn) support , improved cookie authentication for API endpoints , new Identity metrics , and cleaner JWT setup. In this guide I will walk you through every authentication method with working C# code so you can implement them in your own projects today. Table of Co...

Table of Contents What is .NET 10 and why it matters Runtime & JIT compiler improvements ASP.NET Core 10 — Web API changes C# 14 — New language features EF Core 10 — Database improvements Performance comparison: .NET 9 vs .NET 10 Built-in AI support — Microsoft Agent Framework Should you upgrade? Final verdict 01 — Overview What is .NET 10 and why does it matter? Microsoft officially released .NET 10 on November 11, 2025 — and it is not a routine update. This is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release, which means it will receive security patches and updates until November 2028 . If you are currently on .NET 8 or .NET 9, this is the version to migrate to. After spending time with .NET 10 in real backend projects, I can tell you it genuinely feels faster. The JIT compiler is smarter, the garbage collector is more aggressive about memory, and ASP.NET Core's Minimal APIs are cleane...