In my previous posts in this series (An Introduction to HttpClientFactory and Defining Named and Typed Clients) I introduced some core concepts and then showed some examples of using the new IHttpClientFactory feature in ASP.NET Core 2.1. It’s been a while since those first two posts but I’d like to continue this series by looking […]
Category: ASP.NET Core
Library Manager (LibMan) in Visual Studio 2017 (15.7) How to restore client side libraries in ASP.NET Core projects.
UPDATE: 24-May-2018 – It looks like LibMan didn’t make it into the final release of 15.7. It’s in the preview for 15.8.x currently so we may see it when that version lands. I recently started working on an ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview 2 sample project. Having been mostly API focused recently, it was the first […]
Updates to my ASP.NET Core Correlation ID Library Supporting correlation IDs across ASP.NET Core microservices.
Back in May 2017 I blogged about creating a simple library which supports passing correlation IDs between ASP.NET Core micro-services. The library came about because of a basic requirement we had at work to pass an identifier between related services to enable more useful error logging. By passing an identifier from the first service, through […]
ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection – How to Register Generic Types Exploring how generic types can be registered with the built-in Microsoft DI container
If you find the information in this post useful and want to learn more about dependency injection, may I suggest viewing my new course on Pluralsight – “Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core“? I dive deeply the Microsoft DI container and how to use all of its features in your applications. Since its release, ASP.NET Core […]
Using HostBuilder and the Generic Host in .NET Core Microservices Exploring a simple pattern for cross-cutting concerns in console based services.
NOTE: This content is now quite out of date. I have a new post “What are .NET Worker services?” which answers that question. Worker services are a much better alternative to the example below. I also cover them in detail in my new course on Pluralsight – “Building ASP.NET Core Hosted Services and .NET Core […]