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Testing an ASP.NET Core MVC Protobuf API using HTTPClient and xUnit
The article shows how to test an ASP.NET Core MVC API using xUnit and a HTTPClient client using Protobuf for the content formatters. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreMvcProtobufFormatters Posts in this series: ASP.NET Core Using Protobuf Formatters Testing an ASP.NET Core MVC Protobuf API using HTTPClient and xUnit 2019-01-30 Updated to ASP.NET Core 2.2 2017-08-17 Updated ASP.NET Core […]
.NET Core logging to MySQL using NLog
This article shows how to log to MySQL in a .NET Core application using NLog. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreNlog 2020-01-12 Updated to .NET Core 3.1, NLog.Web.AspNetCore 4.9.0 2018-04-04 Updated to NLog.Web.AspNetCore 4.5.1, ASP.NET Core 2.0 NLog posts in this series: ASP.NET Core logging with NLog and Microsoft SQL Server ASP.NET Core logging with NLog and Elasticsearch Settings […]
Implementing an Audit Trail using ASP.NET Core and Elasticsearch
This article shows how an audit trail can be implemented in ASP.NET Core which saves the audit documents to Elasticsearch using the Elastic.Clients.Elasticsearch Nuget package. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreElasticsearchAuditTrail History Should I just use a logger? Depends. If you just need to save requests, responses and application events, then a logger would be a better solution for […]
Docker compose with ASP.NET Core, EF Core and the PostgreSQL image
This article show how an ASP.NET Core application with a PostgreSQL database can be setup together using docker as the deployment containers for both web and database parts of the application. docker-compose is used to connect the 2 containers and the application is build using Visual Studio 2017. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCorePostgreSQLDocker Setting up the PostgreSQL docker […]
Creating an ASP.NET Core Docker application and deploying to Azure
This blog is a simple step through, which creates an ASP.NET Core Docker image using Visual Studio 2017, deploys it to Docker Hub and then deploys the image to Azure. Thanks to Malte Lantin for his fantastic posts on MSDN. See the links at the end of this post. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreDockerAzureDemo 2017.02.03: Updated to VS2017 […]
Angular Lazy Loading with Webpack 3
This article shows how Angular lazy loading can be supported using Webpack 2 for both JIT and AOT builds. The Webpack loader angular-router-loader from Brandon Roberts is used to implement this. A big thanks to Roberto Simonetti for his help in this. Code: VS2017 angular 4.x Blogs in this series: ASP.NET Core, Angular with Webpack […]
Building production ready Angular apps with Visual Studio and ASP.NET Core
This article shows how Angular SPA apps can be built using Visual Studio and ASP.NET Core which can be used in production. Lots of articles, blogs templates exist for ASP.NET Core and Angular but very few support Angular production builds. Although Angular is not so old, many different seeds and build templates already exist, so […]
Creating an ASP.NET Core 1.1 VS2017 Docker application
This blog shows how to setup a basic ASP.NET Core 1.1 application using Visual studio 2017 and Docker. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreVS2017Docker 2017.02.03 Updated to VS2017 RC3 msbuild3 This article from Swaminathan Vetri demonstates how to setup everything for an ASP.NET Core 1.0 application. Now the application needs to be updated to ASP.NET Core 1.1. Open the […]
Implementing a Client White-list using ASP.NET Core Middleware
This article shows how a client safe-list could be implemented using ASP.NET Core middleware checking the Remote IP address of the request. If the client IP is on the safe-list, no restrictions exist. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/ClientIpAspNetCoreIIS History 2018-08-30 Updated to .NET core 2.1 and added support for IP6 The middleware uses an admin white-list parameter from […]
EF Core diagnosis and features with MS SQL Server
This article shows how Entity Framework Core messages can be logged, and compared using the SQL Profiler and also some of the cool new 1.1 features, but not all. All information can be found on the links at the bottom and especially the excellent docs for EF Core. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/EFCoreFeaturesAndDiag project.json with EF Core packages […]
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