As the pool of technology supporting Web Forms continues to shrink, you want to know if it’s a good idea to modernize your application by integrating ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC. Judging from our vast experience with clients making the same move, it is worth it. Done right, you...

Clean Architecture is a software design philosophy that promotes the separation of concerns and the creation of a modular and maintainable codebase. It was introduced by Robert C. Martin, also known as Uncle Bob, and has gained popularity in the software development community. In this article, we will explore the...

In the world of modern software architecture, reliable communication between different components or microservices is crucial. This is where RabbitMQ, a queue based message broker, can play a vital role. RabbitMQ is a popular choice for implementing message queuing systems, ensuring reliable and scalable communication between various parts of...

Writing unit test code when using the Dapper ORM tool for database operations with ASP.NET Core Web Application How to write unit tests with Dapper Writing unit tests when using the Dapper ORM tool for database operations in an ASP.NET Core Web Application can be complex. This is because Dapper...

Did you ever face a situation where you have a search UI, like a front-end application, that has a data table and you need to support a complex query construction that can contain Free Text search, Sorting of multiple columns, and extra filters and query parameters starts to look...

In this article, we are going to discuss the working of CQRS and MediatR patterns and step-by-step implementation using .NET Core 6 Web API. Agenda Introduction of CQRS Pattern When to use CQRS MediatR Step-by-step Implementation Prerequisites Visual Studio 2022 SQL Server .NET Core 6 Introduction of CQRS Pattern CQRS...

By software engineering standards, ASP.NET Web Forms can be considered old school. Perhaps I’m aging myself with that statement, but its true. From a software perspective, even 10 years begins to show its age. I started to use Web Forms the year after they were introduced by Microsoft in 2003....

We are going to discuss Caching in .NET Core and how it works. So, we look at the following things one by one. Introduction of Caching. What is Cache. Types of cache. Cache Implementation. So, let’s start one by one. Introduction Caching is very popular nowadays in the software...

Blazor and Razor have a healthy following in the web UI dev community, especially among developers who primarily work within .NET Core. However, the confusion between these two can be off-putting for some developers, especially beginners. This post discusses the similarities and differences between Blazor framework and Razor; both...

I was writing about the problems of legacy ASP.NET Web Forms applications. It is often not possible to rewrite them from scratch, as new features should be introduced every month, and I’d like to dig into one of the ways of modernizing these applications. In this part, I will write...

For as long as web applications have been around, full-stack developers have had to work with different sets of technologies for the front and backend. For instance, a developer would use something like Angular for the frontend and Express.js for the backend. Microsoft aimed to change this approach by unifying...

ASP.NET Core MVC is a web development framework, widely used by developers around the word, to develop web applications. These web applications have proven to be vulnerable to attacks from different sources, though, and it is our responsibility to safeguard our data. This article will help you develop a secure...

Real-time interactivity is the bread and butter of modern web, mobile, and desktop applications. It doesn’t matter how hard you worked to build your app. If it’s not interactive enough, users will just ignore it in favor of competing apps that are interactive. When you open your social media...

Suppose we are building a web api that contains a route to send notification messages to other systems. For security matters, before sending any notification message, we need to provide some credentials to these systems to they accept our messages. However, these credentials are stored in an external data...

This example shows you the gRpc global exception handler in the unary server handle in gRpc. In microservice, we have two ways to integrate with other internal services. The first way is the Request-Response pattern, which is the most famous. The Request-Response pattern advantage is that the client could immediately...

Sometimes your web app needs to do work in the background periodically e.g. to sync data. This article provides a walkthrough how to implement such a background task and how to enabled/disable a background task during runtime using a RESTful API and hosted services. Here’s the intro from the...

Backend frameworks are the most critical building blocks that make application development easier and practical. Most developers, and clients for whom the developers create apps, have a problem choosing a backed framework. For a long time, .NET has played a crucial role as the go-to framework to develop the...

A step by step guide to integrate OpenTelemetry with ASP.Net core and visualize in Jaeger. OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs. Use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) to help you analyze your software’s performance and behavior. In this tutorial,...

Today, we are going to cover uploading and downloading multiple files using ASP.Net Core 5.0 Web API by a simple process. Note: This same technique works in .Net Core 3.1 and .Net Core 2.1 as well. Begin with creating an empty web API project in visual studio and for...

Dispose and Finalize are two methods you often use to release resources occupied by your .NET and .NET Core applications running in the context of the CLR. Most importantly, if you have unmanaged resources in your application, you should release the resources occupied by such resources explicitly. Due to the...