Tag: ASP.NET Core

September 14, 2023

Microservices architecture describes a collection of loosely coupled, extensible, independently deployable services that interact with each other through well-defined interfaces. This article examines microservices architecture, its benefits and drawbacks, and then illustrates how we can implement a simple microservice in […]

February 23, 2023

Minimal APIs are a type of API in ASP.NET Core that includes a bare minimum of files, features, and dependencies. Minimal APIs allow you to build fully functional REST endpoints with minimal coding and configuration. One of many new enhancements […]

October 7, 2021

The Developer Exception Page in ASP.NET Core provides detailed information about exceptions. Because developers need detailed information about exceptions, and end users don’t, the ASP.NET Core templates enable the Developer Exception Page only when an application is running in the […]

August 11, 2021

When working in web applications in ASP.NET Core, you might often want to build services that are lightweight — i.e., services that don’t have a template or controller class — for lower resource consumption and improved performance. You can create […]

June 23, 2021

When working with controllers in web applications using ASP.NET Core or ASP.NET Core MVC, you might have encountered code redundancy. For example, you might have come across controllers that use dependency injection (DI) to inject services that they need. If […]

February 22, 2021

Microsoft’s ASP.NET Core has become a popular way to build high-performance, modern web applications that can run on Windows, Linux, or MacOS. An important way to ensure high performance and reliability in applications that experience high volumes of requests is […]

January 11, 2021

ASP.NET Core MVC 5 is a lightweight, open source, highly testable framework built on top of the ASP.NET Core 5 runtime and based on the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture. Part of the new .NET 5, the ASP.NET Core MVC 5 framework […]

October 12, 2020

For an API to be maintainable and usable there should be consistency in the way responses are sent to the clients. This article talks about ProblemDetails, open source ASP.NET Core middleware from Kristian Hellang that can be used to generate […]

October 5, 2020

Route constraints in ASP.NET Core are used to filter out or restrict unwanted data from reaching your controller actions. For a primer on routing in ASP.NET Core, you can refer to my previous article on attribute-based routing versus convention-based routing […]

September 28, 2020

When working with с web applications, you will want to protect certain pieces of application data, called user secrets, that should not be shared with others. Your user secrets might include a database connection string that also contains the user […]

August 31, 2020

gRPC is a Google-created, open source, schema-first remote procedure call (RPC) framework that takes advantage of HTTP/2 protocol to transport binary messages. These messages are serialized and deserialized using Protocol Buffers, a binary serialization protocol also from Google. gRPC takes […]

August 12, 2020

Microsoft has addressed a total of 120 new vulnerabilities in yet another mammoth Patch Tuesday update, including two critical zero-days that are already being taken advantage of in the wild, and 17 more critical bugs. August 2020’s Patch Tuesday list […]

July 20, 2020

API Analyzers, introduced with ASP.NET Core 2.2, enable you to follow a set of conventions to improve the documentation of the APIs of your ASP.NET Core applications. API Analyzers work with any controller that is decorated with the [ApiController] attribute. […]

July 13, 2020

ASP.NET Core is an open source, cross-platform, lean, and modular framework for building high-performance web applications. Routing in ASP.NET Core is managed by built-in routing middleware, which maps the incoming requests to the respective route handlers. The routing infrastructure in […]