Anyone who regularly works with HttpClient will have likely have also used the HttpRequestMessage class. While HttpClient supports some convenience methods for quick actions such as sending a GET request; once you have more complex requirements, such a needing to include headers on the request, you will need to use HttpClient.SendAsync which accepts a HttpRequestMessage. […]
Category: .NET Core
Demystifying HttpClient Internals Exploring the SendAsync Flow
I’ve written a few blog posts about HttpClientFactory and HttpClient and these are proving popular topics. There exists some confusion about how HttpClient should be used and there is a degree of mystery around how it actually works. In this post, I want to begin a potential series where we will explore the internals of […]
An Introduction to Optimising Code Using Span<T> A C# Performance Journey - Part 3
This post continues my series about writing high-performance C# code. In this post, we’ll continue from the last two posts by introducing the Span<T> type and refactor some existing code by converting it to a Span-based version. We’ll use Benchmark.NET to compare the methods and validate whether our changes have improved the code. If you […]
HttpClient Creation and Disposal Internals: Should I Dispose of HttpClient? .NET Core Internals - Under the Hood of HttpClient and HttpClientFactory
A common question that I get asked quite often and a point of reasonable confusion for developers is “Should I dispose of HttpClient or not?” There isn’t one yes or no answer to this. It really does depend on a few key factors. In this post, I’ll try to answer this question with enough code snippets […]
Publishing to AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) from ASP.NET Core Building distributed systems with .NET Corea and AWS
In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to publish a message to AWS Simple Notification Service from an ASP.NET Core application. The same steps will work just as easily from a .NET Core generic host based console application also. I’ve decided to cover them here as I couldn’t find a specific piece of documentation for this […]