.NET Aspire is an orchestration technology introduced in November 2022 alongside the .NET 8 release. And since it was released, it took the .NET community by storm. This technology allows developers to easily build and debug distributed applications locally, which was traditionally hard to do. With .NET Aspire, you don’t...

Introduction According to the people who designed it, OData (the Open Data Protocol) is “the best way to Rest”. OData is essential, a way to try and standardize REST. It’s an open protocol that allows the creation and consumption of queryable and interoperable RESTful APIs in a simple and standard...

Introduction Minimal APIs in .NET 8 make a grand entrance, redefining the way we build web services. If you’re curious about what makes Minimal APIs tick and how they can streamline your development process, let’s dive in with some engaging examples. The birth of minimalism in .NET Think of a...

Mastering Scheduled Tasks in .NET with Cronos Cronos is a task scheduling library for .NET that allows scheduling and executing tasks at specific times or intervals using the CRON pattern. In this article, I will present how to set up and use task scheduling in the background in a .NET...

Introduction Building real-time applications has become essential in modern web development, especially for features like notifications, chat systems, and live updates. SignalR, a powerful library for ASP.NET, enables seamless real-time communication between server-side code and client-side web applications. In this guide, we’ll walk through creating real-time notifications in .NET Core...

Introduction Open Data Protocol (OData) is a standard protocol for building and consuming RESTful APIs. It extends traditional REST-based data access techniques by providing a uniform way to expose, structure, and manipulate data. Originally developed by Microsoft, OData is widely adopted because it standardizes queries and interoperability between different systems...

Introduction In this article, we are going to discuss How to implement Authentication and Authorization in .NET 8 Web API. This is a continuation of.Net 8 series, so if you are new, Please have a look at my previous articles. Authentication and Authorization represent fundamentally different functions. In this article,...

Introduction One common way to speed up our applications is by introducing a cache. Typically, the first option that comes to mind is using a MemoryCache (RAM) to save some data in order to speed up retrieval. This approach works well for monolithic applications. However, in the case of microservice...

Introduction In this article, we are going to discuss What Entity Framework is and How we can implement it in the .Net 8 project. This is a continuation of part 1, so if you are new to this article, please check my part 1 before proceeding. In this article, we...

Introduction Creating a CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) API in .NET 8 with an In-memory collection is a common scenario in web development. In this article, we’ll walk through building a complete .NET 8 Web API with a real-world use case. Prerequisites Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code (with .NET...

In the second part of our series, the focus shifts towards validating the security and reliability of our ASP.NET 8 Web API through comprehensive integration testing. Integration testing plays a critical role in ensuring that our authentication mechanisms work as intended, under various scenarios and edge cases. We’ll guide you...

Introduction As a passionate .NET developer, I find myself continuously seeking opportunities to expand my understanding of the .NET ecosystem. In this, my first article ever, I embark on a journey to explore the intricacies of .NET performance, with a specific focus on two prominent JSON frameworks: Newtonsoft.Json and Microsoft’s...

Follow me on Twitter, happy to take your suggestions on topics or improvements. Introduction Many third-party feature flagging services are available, or your internal team could develop its own feature flag service. For those who prefer standardization, following the OpenFeature guidelines is also an option. However, none of these solutions...

Pagination allows you to retrieve a large number of records split into pages, instead of returning all the results at once. This is especially useful in scenarios where you need to retrieve a large number of records. In this article, I present how to implement OffSet and Keyset pagination...

Introduction With the release of .NET 8, Microsoft takes a significant stride forward, introducing the native Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation for ASP.NET Core. This advancement not only enhances application performance but also simplifies the development process, marking a new era in the .NET ecosystem. The emergence of native AOT in .NET...

.NET 8 introduced a powerful API in system diagnostics, making it seamless for developers to add custom application metrics adhering to the open telemetry standard. In this post, we’ll explore this new feature, demonstrating how it can be leveraged to publish metrics from a minimal API. Additionally, we’ll cover...

Health checks are crucial for monitoring the status of your applications and services. They provide a quick and automated way to verify that your application’s dependencies and components are running smoothly. This article will explore how to implement health checks in a .NET 8 web application. Why health checks...

The flight monitor case study: Applying Vertical Slices in a real-world scenario In my last articles I talked about Vertical Slice Architecture and how to organize code in a non-technical way. I showed some simple examples of how to do this in C# using the Minimal API and Blazor in...

Streamline Your .NET 8 Projects with the Power of MediatR and Blazor In this article, I want to revisit how the Vertical Slice Architecture can be used. This article takes an in-depth look at feature slicing and its application to server-side rendered (SSR) .NET 8 Blazor pages without the need...