On a recent project we needed to implement the concept of correlation IDs across some ASP.NET Core API services. In our scenario we have an API service called from a front end JavaScript application which will then call one or more secondary back end API services to gather data. This is becoming a pretty common […]
Getting started with ASP.NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 A quick tour of the main structural changes
At Microsoft Build 2017 yesterday, the formal announcement of ASP.NET Core 2.0 and .NET Core 2.0 was made. ASP.NET Core 2.0 preview announcement .NET Core 2.0 preview announcement For me it was no surprise that we were close with these announcements as I keep an eye on the ASP.NET Core repositories on GitHub where there have […]
ASP.NET Core Anatomy (Part 4) – Invoking the MVC Middleware Dissecting and understanding the internals of ASP.NET Core
In the first three parts of this series I looked at what happens when we call AddMvcCore, AddMvc and UseMvc as part of the application startup. Once the MVC services and middleware have been registered in our ASP.NET Core application, MVC is now available to handle HTTP requests. In this post I want to cover the […]
Things I’ve Learnt This Week (9th April)
Things I’ve Polled I started a short poll on Twitter, as I was curious to see how many people had already migrated from project.json to csproj. I had 84 votes and the breakdown was as follows. 68% All done – csproj for me 21% Not yet – In planning 11% Don’t plan to move yet […]
Migrating from project.json to csproj using Visual Studio 2017 Moving a real world ASP.NET Core application using VS2015 project.json to VS2017 and csproj
This past weekend I spent a few hours working on migrating the Humanitarian Toolbox allReady project over to the new csproj based Visual Studio 2017 solution format. I’ve written a few times about the plans to retire the project.json file introduced by ASP.NET Core. If you want some background you can read those posts first (don’t worry, […]