Tagged articles - C#

Configuration is probably the most essential part of every application, yet we do not give much attention to it during application design and development. .NET Core has quite nice way to store configurations (usually JSON files) and already built-in extensions to access configuration values and directly cast them to a specific type...read more

Patterns, conventions and standards are invented and enforced in order to make coding easier and more understandable for the developers, but in some cases certain patterns and conventions do not couple so easily and you have to rely on more on the actual technology you are using in order to overcome these complications. One of the cases this happens is using CQRS, especially commands and REST. Although commands give clear separation of intention of some action, at the same time commands are especially tough to handle in soma cases because of their immutability...read more

Swagger is the most convenient way to document your REST api endpoints. It provides generating of documentation on the fly based on the code structure, which shortens the time of creating the documentation drastically...read more

Some time ago I wrote an article about Reloading the cache automatically once expired is ASP.NET MVC. The piece of code represented in that article is build on top of .NET Framework 4.7.2...read more

Times of writing your HttpClient setup to call REST API endpoint are over. It is just to much of repetitive code and taking care of the endpoints of the REST API service...read more

Code analysis is and important part of application development. It can point to a potential bottle necks or code cluttering during the development process...read more

Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) pattern is one of my favorite way of handling the Web API requests for a simple reason that is clearly separates reading and writing. Quite often at some stage of the project you will hit the performance bottlenecks which are most probably cause by the way you are reading ow writing your data. CQRS splits reading and writing so that you can independently use different persistence framework for reading and writing...read more

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. This is pretty much clear and it is easy achieved by just simply decorating your controller actions or even whole controllers with Authorize or AllowAnonymous attributes. ...read more

Contracts, models or DTOs, call them how ever you want, are your connection with the outside world from your REST API. Consumers of your API depend on them and they know what to expect or what your API endpoints expect in communication...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

Serverless model is becoming more and more popular everyday and all major cloud providers like AWS, Azure and GoogleCloud are providing their own implementation of serverless cloud computing model. As more and more companies are shifting their infrastructure to cloud, serverless model becomes more and more popular mostly because it's cost effectiveness, easy setup and out of the box scaling and orchestration...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