If you’ve ever used ASP.NET Core, then you’ll likely be familiar with the Startup class. This class, by convention, includes at least one method named Configure. Often, a ConfigureServices method is also included and used to register services with the Microsoft dependency injection container, but this isn’t an absolute requirement. The configure method is where […]
Category: ASP.NET Core
Pluralsight #FreeApril: Month-Long Free Access to 7000+ Courses
TL;DR – Pluralsight is offering a free, month-long trial during April. Sign up for your free trial here. My regular readers and followers will know that for the last year and a half or so, I’ve been authoring and publishing online training courses for Pluralsight. I’ve just, in fact, begun work on my fourth course, “Integration […]
Building ASP.NET Core Hosted Services and .NET Core Worker Services
I’m excited to announce the release of my third and latest course at Pluralsight! This new course covers building ASP.NET Core hosted services and .NET Core worker services. When I first pitched the course proposal to Pluralsight, I was quite surprised that it hadn’t been covered in great detail already. In my daily work, building .NET […]
ASP.NET Core 5 Features – Introducing HttpProtocol
In this blog post, which will be a quick read, I’m going to begin what I expect to be a long-running endeavour, to dig into new APIs available in .NET 5 and ASP.NET Core 5.0. This time, I’m going to look at a new helper for HTTP protocol versions. What are HTTP Protocol Versions? Through […]
Upgrading from ASP.NET Core 3.1 to 5.0 (Preview 1)
In this post, I want to take a look at the steps required to upgrade some projects to the first preview of .NET 5 and ASP.NET Core 5.0. Both were released yesterday (16th March 2020) and are the first public previews we have available for these future versions. The .NET 5 roadmap has these scheduled […]