I was listening to this week’s ASP.NET Community Standup and during the introduction, Jon Galloway shared Andrew Lock’s blog post, “Delaying strongly-typed options configuration using PostConfigure in ASP.NET Core“. It sparked some discussion, during which Damien Edwards mentioned a new feature in ASP.NET Core 2.2 called Options Validation which I hadn’t previously explored. The functionality […]
Passing an ILogger to Polly Policies A short example of how to pass the ASP.NET Core ILogger to policy delegates such as OnRetry.
In a previous post, I looked at how we could use the Polly context to obtain a retry count after policy execution. In this post, I want to explore a similar requirement that can also be solved by using the Polly context; this time to pass in an ILogger to be used for logging messages […]
Running AWS DynamoDB Locally for .NET Core Developers Configuring an ASP.NET Core application to use a local DynamoDB Docker container
For a recent set of .NET Core based microservices I have found myself using AWS DynamoDB as a data store. I recently discovered that AWS provides (and have done for 5 years!) a local version of DynamoDB which is perfect for testing applications offline and without the need to set up actual DynamoDB tables in […]
ASP.NET Core 2.2 First Look – Endpoint Routing (aka Dispatcher) What is Endpoint Routing in ASP.NET Core 2.2?
The first preview of ASP.NET Core 2.2 is due (very) soon and it will be our first chance to test the changes and new features which are expected to be released by the end of this year. ASP.NET Core 2.2 marks the next minor release of the ASP.NET Core framework, following on from the ASP.NET […]
Running a .NET Core Generic Host App as a Windows Service
I received a question at the weekend via a comment from Vadim on my Implementing IHostedService in ASP.NET Core 2.0 post. Vadim asked the following: We have a lot of console applications that are listening to a queue and performing some work. In .net 4.6 we would make some of these classes inherit from ServiceBase class. Then we […]