Using AWS Parameter Store for ASP.NET Core Data Protection Keys
If you’re using ASP.NET Core in AWS under any type of load balanced scenario, either through Elastic Beanstalk or an ALB with and ECS, etc, you will need to share the data protection keys. This is...
View ArticleMigrating from .NET Framework to .NET Core
Over the course of several years, I’ve been slowly migrating a 5-year-old system built on top of .NET Framework (v4.8). In this blog series, I’m going to describe each step of the migration, as there...
View ArticleRoundup #52: .NET Core and systemd, System.Threading.Channels, screencastR,...
Here are the things that caught my eye recently in .NET. I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week. Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Follow @codeopinion .NET Core and...
View ArticleRoundup #9: Razor Email Templates, AWS Lamba .NET Core 2.1, Contract First...
Here are the things that caught my eye this week. I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week. Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Follow @codeopinion Walkthrough: Creating an...
View ArticleTroubleshooting StackOverflow Exceptions
Is your .NET application randomly crashing? In Production? Without any relevant application logs? You may be hitting a StackOverflowException if you see exception code 0xc00000fd in the event log....
View ArticleZero Downtime Deployments with Octopus Deploy
If you’re using Octopus Deploy and AWS with their Elastic Load Balancer (v2) in front of EC2 instances that either self host or sit behind IIS, you can setup zero downtime deployments fairly easily....
View ArticleState Driven UI in ASP.NET Core MVC
In most MVC applications when rending Razor Views, I think the tendency is to use the IUrHelperl.Action inside if anchor href or form action. If you are using ASP.NET Core, maybe you are using tag...
View Article.NET Video Tutorials
I’ve started a YouTube channel last year to provide some video content to many of my blog posts. I’ve never really mentioned it on this blog, which seems crazy. Primarily these are .NET Video...
View ArticleMigrating to SDK csproj
The SDK csproj files introduced with Visual Studio 2017 are a much needed improvement to the project files. If you are creating a new .NET Core project or a .NET Standard library, either with VIsual...
View ArticleFat Controller CQRS Diet: Notifications
This post is in my Fat Controller CQRS Diet series. It demonstrates how to thin your controllers by implementing commands and queries using the MediatR library. I’m converting the MusicStore...
View ArticleFat Controller CQRS Diet: Command Pipeline
This post is in my Fat Controller CQRS Diet series demonstrating how to thin your controllers by implementing commands and queries using the MediatR library. For demonstration, I’m converting the...
View ArticleWhy use Nancy?
On one of my posts showing how you can use Nancy with ASP.NET Core, David Anderson posted the following comment I came across some Nancy blogpost last week and got curious about it and so looked on...
View ArticleRoundup #35: Startup Hooks, HttpMaster, 7+M req/sec, Pre-Building Services,...
Here are the things that caught my eye this week in .NET. I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week. Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Follow @codeopinion [C#] Have some...
View ArticleRoundup #32: System.IO.Pipelines, Libraries vs Frameworks, Performance...
Here are the things that caught my eye this week in .NET. I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week. Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Follow @codeopinion High Performance...
View ArticleRoundup #31: .NET OSS, Async Startup, Loki Serilog, Monitoring, Collectible...
Here are the things that caught my eye this week in .NET. I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week. Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Follow @codeopinion Starting the .NET...
View ArticleRoundup #30: ProxyKit, BeeHive, Nullable Ref Types, Close Loops & Opening Minds
Here are the things that caught my eye this week in .NET. I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week. Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Follow @codeopinion ProxyKit ProxyKit...
View ArticlePractical ASP.NET Core SignalR: Server Hubs
In this section, I’m going to extend my existing ASP.NET Core application to explore more of what SignalR Server Hubs have to offer. This blog post is apart of a course that is a complete...
View ArticleUpgrading Nancy to Version 2
Although there isn’t an “official” of Nancy v2 release yet, there’ is 2.0.0-clinteastwood that’s been in NuGet since Dec 12th, 2106 and as of this post has almost 200k downloads. The primary reason...
View ArticleRoundup #16: NET Standard 2.1, Endpoint Routing, Bullseye, API Spec Workflow
Here are the things that caught my eye this week. I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week. Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Follow @codeopinion .NET Standard 2.1 This...
View ArticleeShopOnContainers a Microservice based .NET Core Sample Application
Finding good sample applications if pretty difficult, if not impossible. Most are small Todo style applications that are generally very CRUD based. Thankfully Microsoft has created the...
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