Technical guides, tools and lessons learned around ASP.NET Core, Blazor and software architecture, straight from our project work.
Overview
Practical write-ups on ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET migrations and architecture, straight from delivery work at BitSpire, written by a Swiss team with a Microsoft MVP.
How the framework behaves once real traffic, real databases and real deadlines are involved.
.NET Framework 4.8.1 has no end-of-support date of its own, it follows Windows. Why your project's real deadline comes much earlier and what it means for migration.
Read the .NET lifecycle analysisAsNoTracking is not automatically faster, it also drops identity resolution. Three BenchmarkDotNet scenarios show when each variant wins, and why.
Read the AsNoTracking benchmarkHow ASP.NET Core detects aborted requests, passes the cancellation through EF Core down to SQL Server, and how architecture tests keep it that way.
Read the CancellationToken deep diveFree .NET developer tools that run in your browser: Regex Tester, JSON to C#, JWT Decoder, Middleware Designer and more. Open source, no servers, no tracking.
Explore the .NET Toolbox tourModernising long-lived systems without stopping delivery, and the trade-offs that decision involves.
PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618/-109619): which PHP versions are affected, what your IT has to do now and why PHP 8.1 and older get no official fix.
What PHP2Shell means for youEvery page on bitspire.ch is available as Markdown and through a public MCP server. Up to 10x fewer tokens for LLM agents, and faster answers.
Read how bitspire.ch serves AI agentsA distilled, experience-based guide to migrating from .NET Framework 4.8 to .NET 6 with .NET Standard 2.0 as the bridge.
Read the .NET migration guideConference talks, open source work and what we bring back from the .NET community.
Our team's experience at NDC Oslo 2025 - connecting with industry experts, learning from innovative talks, and contributing as speakers.
Read the NDC Oslo 2025 recap