Sometimes, we need to check if the input is valid. Usually, we may do this: // Bad example: // Requires a lot of duplicate code. Bad architecture. if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(InputArgument.TargetMachine)) { throw new ArgumentException($"Invalid input argument! Target Machine: '...
Recently, I found that almost every time I creates a new .NET app, I 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 star...
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. In...
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 { priva...
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 go...
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...
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...
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 organiz...
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 se...
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 p...