With the release of .NET Core 3.0, the ASP.NET team introduced a new “Worker Service” project template, which is available as part of the SDK. In this post, I’ll introduce the new template, along with some practical examples of the kinds of services which I develop using it. If you find the information in this […]
A Lesson Learnt: Test Explorer Processor Architecture Settings
I recently posted about the process to upgrade from ASP.NET Core 3.1 to ASP.NET Core 5.0 (preview 1) and mentioned that I had an issue with running my unit tests from Visual Studio 16.6 (preview 1). In this short post, I want to explain what caused my issue and how to resolve it. Symptoms of […]
Using HttpCompletionOption to Improve HttpClient Performance in .NET
In this blog post, I want to get back to an area I genuinely enjoy, exploring the use of HttpClient within your .NET applications. I’ll explain how you can optimise the performance of HttpClient when handling data such as JSON payloads on the HttpResponseMessage. Making HTTP Requests Using HttpClient By default, in the majority of […]
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 […]