In the first post in the series I introduced a few concepts and key terms you’ll need to know if you want to work with Docker. In this post I will cover the steps needed to begin working with Docker in your development environment. We’ll look at creating a very basic sample API service and […]
Month: May 2017
Docker for .NET Developers (Part 1) An introduction to Docker for .NET developers
Two words you will very likely be used to hearing quite often within our community at the moment are “microservices” and “Docker”. Both are topics of great interest and are generating excitement for developers and architects. In this new series of blog posts I want to cover Docker, what it is, why it might be […]
ASP.NET Core Correlation IDs Writing a basic middleware library to enable correlation IDs on ASP.NET Core
On a recent project we needed to implement the concept of correlation IDs across some ASP.NET Core API services. In our scenario we have an API service called from a front end JavaScript application which will then call one or more secondary back end API services to gather data. This is becoming a pretty common […]
Getting started with ASP.NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 A quick tour of the main structural changes
At Microsoft Build 2017 yesterday, the formal announcement of ASP.NET Core 2.0 and .NET Core 2.0 was made. ASP.NET Core 2.0 preview announcement .NET Core 2.0 preview announcement For me it was no surprise that we were close with these announcements as I keep an eye on the ASP.NET Core repositories on GitHub where there have […]
ASP.NET Core Anatomy (Part 4) – Invoking the MVC Middleware Dissecting and understanding the internals of ASP.NET Core
In the first three parts of this series I looked at what happens when we call AddMvcCore, AddMvc and UseMvc as part of the application startup. Once the MVC services and middleware have been registered in our ASP.NET Core application, MVC is now available to handle HTTP requests. In this post I want to cover the […]