Tagged articles - .NET Core

Authentication is an essential component of pretty much any REST API. Most of the resources you expose through REST API services, unless they are protected inside intranet, need to be protected by some kind of authentication...read more

It is not uncommon that for records in database you need to store image files or other documents related to the specific record on the file system. Storing documents related to the database records on the file system is not a silver bullet...read more

Pretty much all models of digital cameras including smartphones have ability and usually by default store additional metadata along with the image itself taken. This data is stored in EXIF format and you can easily see it if you are a Windows user by checking the properties of the photography file. ...read more

Reflection allows accessing type structure and its meta-data in runtime. Using reflection, you can dynamically instantiate objects, access fields, methods and properties regardless of the protection level...read more

There is a big buzz about AI these days and major Cloud vendors like Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud are competing to bring better products to their platforms for variety of AI tasks. One of these services is speech recognition and generating transcription text from the audio. I recently worked on a project which involved transcribing large amount of daily generated audio recordings...read more

Over the time various techniques to manipulate database data have evolved in .NET. Entity Framework is certainly the most advanced one, but for small ad hock applications where you have few inserts to deal with, ADO is still the fastest way to write data to the database...read more

Paging a REST API response is equally important as filtering the data returned through REST API endpoints and they quite often come together. Just like filtering, paging limits the amount of data returned from the endpoint, saving both client and server side resources...read more

Apart from running on Windows and Linux both x86 and x64 architecture, .NET Core is an ideal platform for IOT (Internet of things) projects because it can also run on ARM32 and ARM64. This means you can run it pretty much any device with both RISC or CISC processor architecture. If you are .NET developer or you are familiar with .NET platform and C# language, this means you can now write applications that run on Raspberry Pi which is based on RISC architecture by writing them in Visual Studio...read more

Starting from .NET Core version 2.1, there are so far three types of WebApi responses that controller actions can return. All three types had it's own pros and cons but all are lacking in options to satisfy both REST and the high level of testability. The available response types in ASP.NET Core including recently released 2.2 version are ...read more

Now here is a trouble that was bugging me for some time and I guess who ever is using IConfigration injected in the constructor and using extension methods to access configuration values reached whan trying to write Unit Tests. IConfiguration interface is a great way to easily replace your configuration layer in application, but it has it's drawbacks. The way interface envorces configuration reading is by exposing GetSection method which return IConfigurationSection...read more

Tracing data changes can be beneficial in narrowing down the issue that may occur in production. If you are using Entity Framework Core you have several ways to store actions performed against your data...read more

Entity Framework Core implements optimistic concurrency strategy which is opposite to pessimistic concurrency strategy. Lets's first clear out what are main differences between these two approaches in concurrency control. Optimistic concurrency control allows multiple processes to access and modify data without any explicit lock on the data...read more

Versioning of your endpoints is important especially if you have 3rd party dependent clients of your REST API service. Any change in your endpoint, for example in data structure may impact clients even if it is backward compatible, clients may process your endpoint data in different ways, so even adding one additional property to your model may also impact functionality of the client which is consuming your endpoint. Prerequisites ...read more

If you are building .NET Core application your choice for logger library is most likely Serilog. It is really powerful and easy to use library which allows you easy logging in all levels in your application. One of the best features it has is easy extending of the data you want to have in your logs...read more

Logging is an essential part of the application. It gives you insights which allows you to see your application behavior or even user behaviour and actions taken by them in the application.Serilog is most probably the most popular library for logging in .NET Core applications...read more