HttpClientFactory in ASP.NET Core 2.1 (Part 5): Logging Exploring the default request and response logging and how to replace the logging implementation

In the 2.1 release of IHttpClientFactory, the ASP.NET team included some built-in logging of the HTTP calls made via HttpClients created by the factory. This can be useful for the diagnosis of failures, as well as to understand the time taken to complete HTTP calls to external services.  In this post, I want to explore […]

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HttpClientFactory in ASP.NET Core 2.1 (Part 4) Integrating with Polly for transient fault handling

In the previous post in this series, I introduced the concept of outgoing middleware using DelegatingHandlers registered with named and typed clients. While that approach is available, the ASP.NET team hope that for most scenarios, we won’t need to resort to manually building our own handlers. In some cases, the built-in features of the library […]

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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. […]

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HttpClientFactory in ASP.NET Core 2.1 (Part 3) Outgoing request middleware with handlers.

In my previous posts in this series (An Introduction to HttpClientFactory and Defining Named and Typed Clients) I introduced some core concepts and then showed some examples of using the new IHttpClientFactory feature in ASP.NET Core 2.1. It’s been a while since those first two posts but I’d like to continue this series by looking […]

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