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 […]
Category: .NET Core
Running a .NET Core Generic Host App as a Windows Service
I received a question at the weekend via a comment from Vadim on my Implementing IHostedService in ASP.NET Core 2.0 post. Vadim asked the following: We have a lot of console applications that are listening to a queue and performing some work. In .net 4.6 we would make some of these classes inherit from ServiceBase class. Then we […]
Using HostBuilder and the Generic Host in .NET Core Microservices Exploring a simple pattern for cross-cutting concerns in console based services.
TL;DR; The “generic” Host and HostBuilder are components of a new feature set coming with the release of .NET Core 2.1. A use case of them is to simplify the creation of console based services by providing a pattern for adding cross-cutting concerns such as dependency injection, configuration and logging. Introduction Since ASP.NET Core 1.0 […]