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 […]
Sending and Receiving JSON using HttpClient with System.Net.Http.Json
In this post, I will introduce a new library, called System.Net.Http.Json, which has been added to .NET in the last few days. We’ll look at the problem which this library helps to solve. We’ll then explore some examples of how to use it in your code today. WARNING: This library is currently available as a pre-release […]
What Are .NET Worker Services?
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 […]