UPDATE: 24-May-2018 – It looks like LibMan didn’t make it into the final release of 15.7. It’s in the preview for 15.8.x currently so we may see it when that version lands. I recently started working on an ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview 2 sample project. Having been mostly API focused recently, it was the first […]
Tag: ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core Anatomy – How does UseStartup work? Exploring how UseStartup results in your Startup methods being registered and executed.
I was recently explaining to someone the basics of the program flow for an ASP.NET Core application. One of the things included in the templates for ASP.NET Core and used very often is the UseStartup<T> extension method on the IWebHostBuilder. This gets called from our Program.cs when initialising the application. UseStartup allows us to set […]
Docker for .NET Developers (Part 1) An introduction to Docker for .NET developers
Two words you will very likely be used to hearing quite often within our community at the moment are “microservices” and “Docker”. Both are topics of great interest and are generating excitement for developers and architects. In this new series of blog posts I want to cover Docker, what it is, why it might be […]
Things I’ve Learnt This Week (19th February)
Week 4 of my series, sharing things I’ve learnt, read, watched and listened to, in the pursuit of expanding my knowledge about software development. A slightly shorter set of links this week, things have been fairly busy so I’ve had less time to keep up with all of the fantastic content. Things I’ve Learned That I […]
A Reminder to Take Care when Registering Dependencies
I looked into a “fun” little problem yesterday where we were seeing occasional errors in some of our ASP.NET Core code which calls down into the ASP.NET Core Identity UserManager. We were getting a range of NullReferenceException and ObjectDisposedExceptions as well as various exceptions from Npgsql.NpgsqlConnection (we use Postgres rather than SQL in this project) […]