I’m currently architecting and building a new microservices based system at work. A priority of mine has been to learn from the experience of building our first microservices project by putting a greater focus on logging and monitoring. We freely acknowledge that we didn’t get this as good as we would have liked in our […]
Tag: ASP.NET Core
Contributing to the Microsoft ASP.NET Documentation My experience of writing for docs.microsoft.com
Back in February I spotted an issue on the ASP.NET Core Docs repository. The issue was a requirement for new documentation about the IHttpClientFactory feature being added in ASP.NET Core 2.1. I’d been following the work on IHttpClientFactory for a while and had written a couple of posts about the functionality based on the nightly builds. […]
Library Manager (LibMan) in Visual Studio 2017 (15.7) How to restore client side libraries in ASP.NET Core projects.
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 […]
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 […]