I’m excited to announce the release of my fourth course at Pluralsight – “Integration Testing ASP.NET Core Applications: Best Practices“. This latest course focuses on using the ASP.NET Core integration testing framework. Many developers will be familiar with the concepts of unit testing their applications. ASP.NET Core supports more in-depth end-to-end integration testing, with the […]
Category: ASP.NET Core
.NET on AWS: Introducing Docker ECS Integration
Last week I read about a new Docker ECS Integration experience, and it piqued my interest. I immediately put it onto my list of things to try out and experiment with. After spending an hour or so with the tooling over the weekend, my early impression is that this CLI feature might be quite useful. […]
Deep Dive: How is the ASP.NET Core Middleware Pipeline Built?
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 […]
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 […]