Sometimes, we need to check if the input is valid. Usually, we may do this: if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(InputArgument.TargetMachine) || string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(InputArgument.PatchId)) { throw new ArgumentException($"Invalid input argument! Patch ID: '{InputArgument.PatchId}', Target Machine: '{InputArgument.TargetMachine}'!"); …
Recently, I found that almost every time I creates a new .NET app, I gonna need cache service. While Microsoft officially provides the IMemoryCache, I found that it is pretty complicated for you to use it. For it requires a lot of code. So I wrapped it to a more common one. Before starting, make sure the project references Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Memory and Microsoft.Extensions.Logging. …
In the official document, there is only an example of the ASP.NET Core integration test using xunit. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/test/integration-tests But what if you don't like xunit? Can we replace that with MSTest? Yes. We can. Brief steps Uninstall xunit. Install MSTest instead. First, clear the project structure. Install MSTest for your test project. Start your …
C# fire and forget might not be suitable in ASP.NET Core To fire and forget in C#, it is really simple: Task.Run(() => FireAway()); But the same approach might not be suitable in ASP.NET Core Controller. Consider the following example: public class MyController : Controller { private readonly MyHeavyDependency _hd; public MyController(MyHeavyDependency hd) { _hd …
This post talks about writing a simple HTTP proxy logic in C# or ASP.NET Core. And allowing your project to proxy the request to any other URL. It is not about deploying a proxy server for your ASP.NET Core project. Before starting, you need to be clear about the target you are going to proxy for. It shall be an URL. Add the following code anywhere of your project. public static …
Entity-Framework Core is a lightweight, extensible, open-source, and cross-platform version of the popular Entity Framework data access technology. It really helps the developer to build applications which access database easily. But in most cases, we may cache some results which do not change frequently, to reduce access to our database. For example, the home page of a blog may not change …
Now with .NET Core 3, Microsoft released a new .NET Core HTTP client. Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/http-requests?view=aspnetcore-3.1 With the new client, to call a WEB API is much easier. For example, to make an HTTP GET request: var client = new HttpClinet(); var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, url) { …
This code example indicates how to build an app that supports Microsoft account OAuth authentication. Before coding, we gonna create an app in your Azure portal first. https://portal.azure.com The name is your app's display name. Select your app can access accounts in any organization and personal Microsoft account. As for the redirect URI, it must be your server redirect back address. For …
When some logic in C# can be shared between projects, we gonna create a new class library project. But sometimes we just want to share some view components. For example, for all pages in Aiursoft, it all contains a Logout component. Writing this more than one time doesn't make sense. So how can we share it? First, we gonna create a new .NET Core class library project alongside it. Name it: …
Multi-tenant requires many features because the data can be separated by different tenants. So when you are accessing the database, you don't need to worry that your operation will affect other tenants. Multi-tenancy is the ASP.NET boilerplate's most important feature and works perfectly with Domain-driven design. But how can we implement the multitenant feature with only pure Entity Framework …
If your ASP.NET Core project is connecting to your database via entity framework, you can't be unfamiliar with the script: dotnet ef database update. Without executing the script your database is not the latest and this may cause some issues. Traditionally we update the database every time we start our app or publish our app. But we may forget this process and it costs us work. How can we …
By default, the user can request an ASP.NET Core web server unlimitedly. The user may request our web server very frequently and submit lots of spam data. Also, too frequent requests may be a terrible attack which may cost our service down and lots of money. So how can we group the requests by their IP address, limit the frequency of the user requests, and return an error message? There's …