Tagged articles - .NET Core

Recently I wrote and article about setting up and using Google reCAPTCHA v2, better known as "I'm not a robot" validation. If you were setting up reCAPTCHA v2, you probably noticed that there is an option for "Invisible reCAPTCHA" option. This type of validation, instead of asking user to interact with the UI in order to be identified as a human, does not require any direct interaction which can help building better user experience for your visitors...read more

In case you have any page on your website which allows anonymous users to POST data to your web application, you should always use any kind of bot protection. Usually that is any kind of CAPTCHA implementation...read more

Even before popularity of micro service approach, for even monolithic applications you needed to have health-checks (Google Compute Engine) or health-probes (Microsoft Azure) for load balancing. Basically in load balancing scenario, these endpoints are used to tell load balancer whether instance can handle requests or not. Since handling of requests may consider several components, these endpoints either return 200 OK HTTP response or any other response like 500 Internal Server Error with optional payload message describing the issue and each component status. ...read more

Saving an object to distributed cache store in .NET Core requires your object to be serialized to byte array in order for SetAsync method on Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Distributed.IDistributedCache interface implemented instance to save your object to the injected cache store instance. This means that what ever instance you have, you need to serialize it first to byte array. Similar, just reversed process applies for the process of reading an object from the distributed cache store. ...read more

Unlike Entity Framework 6, EF Core and whole .NET Core relies on dependency injection. For example, configuration is expected to be injected from the calling assembly instead of being available at any time. This is one of the reasons Migrations in Code First approach do not work out of the box for EF Core...read more

Both Web API in .NET 4.5 and later and Web API in ASP.NET CORE have great error handling support out of the box. You can specify you global handler and control your response to a client when exception happens. ...read more

Often case when you need to convert String to a different type which is most of the time a primitive type in C# is when you are reading values from configuration. In both .NET and .NET Core, reading from configuration return plain String value...read more

When it comes to WebAPI many project overlook the versioning aspect. The whole concept of WebAPI is to serve multiple types of clients which can be based on different platforms, run on different devices etc...read more