RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication". It is a web feed mechanism, which helps applications or clients get updated content from websites in a timely fashion and empower applications to get content from more than one website regularly without having to manually check for new content. The best example for this is a news aggregator application, which brings in news articles from more than one news websites and regularly checks for...

Microservices The term microservices portrays a software development style that has grown from contemporary trends to set up practices that are meant to increase the speed and efficiency of developing and managing software solutions at scale. Microservices is more about applying a certain number of principles and architectural patterns as architecture. Each microservice lives independently, but on the other hand, also all rely on each other. All microservices in a project...

Introduction The Onion Architecture term was coined by Jeffrey Palermo in 2008. This architecture provides a better way to build applications for better testability, maintainability, and dependability on the infrastructures like databases and services. This architecture's main aim is to address the challenges faced with 3-tier architecture or n-tier architecture and to provide a solution for common problems, like coupling and separation of concerns. There are two types of coupling -...

Just because you're using Web Forms, it doesn't mean that you are stuck in a technical time-warp. If you want to liven up a site with new features using Ajax and libraries such as jQuery, Bootstrap or Knockout.JS, then you can always integrate a Web API layer into a Web Forms application. Dino Esposito shows how to give your Web Forms application a new lease of life. Last fall I gave...

We’ll learn about the use of SignalR to build real-time functionality in your ASP.NET Core web apps. SignalR can also be used to add real-time functionality to desktop applications, mobile apps and Azure Functions. What is SignalR? SignalR has been around for 5+ years now, allowing ASP .NET developers to easily include real-time features in their web applications. Fast forward to 2018, SignalR Core is now available with ASP .NET Core (as...

Microservices are the face of the future. Organizations are keen to adapt to Microservices, either by creating a new setup or by transforming monolithic applications into Microservices. Though the inclination towards migrating to Microservices quite high, how to approach the same is yet unclear to many. On a basic note, Microservices are a software development method that focuses on positioning an application as an assortment of loosely coupled services. It is...

Why Share Code Across Projects/Assemblies? There are multiple reasons why you may want to share code between multiple projects/assemblies. Code reuse: This should be pretty self-explanatory. You shouldn’t have to rewrite the same code more than once. Placing reusable code in a shared library enables code reuse. Multiple front-ends: In the sample code, there are multiple web apps, all using the same data layer. Splitting...