Having a system which is composed by distributed applications is a great idea, but a way to communicate with each other is required. A very popular architecture is the so called MDA or Message Driven Architecture, where a system is composed from autonomous components that communicate with each other via...

A message broker that is particularly powerful and interesting is RabbitMQ, one of the most popular open source tools for that job, used worldwide by large enterprises to small startups.

In this article, we will see Distributed caching, Redis cache, and also Redis caching in ASP.NET Core. Follow me on Github and Download source code from GitHub Table of Content What is distributed caching and its benefit IDistributedCache interface Framework provided to implement Distributed Redis cache Setting up Redis on...

In this article, you will see a Web API solution template which is built on Hexagonal Architecture with all essential features using .NET Core. Download source code from GitHub Download project template from Microsoft marketplace Introduction This is kick-off project which will have all essential things integrated to it. When...

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 are...

A well-named Git repository can make a big difference in your development workflow. Here are 10 best practices to follow. A well-named Git repository can save you a lot of time and headaches down the road. A good name should be descriptive and concise, and it should be easy for...

Sometimes we have to perform several queries to the database, put the results into memory, and then process them as needed. For example, we have a Supplier table and a Customer table. Both tables have a substantial amount of data. We want to combine existing Supplier and Customer data with...

I wrote about replacing the authentication with OWIN Security libraries. In this part, I would like to introduce DotVVM – an open source framework which allows building web applications using the MVVM pattern and is very easy to use. I will also show how you can modernize old Web Forms...

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...

.NET Framework has always been very popular and widely used in enterprise environment. There are tons of business-oriented applications written in .NET. From its first version, .NET enabled the developers to build both desktop and web applications, and especially at the beginning, it was really easy to use. Amateur developers,...

Need to communicate with multiple DBs in one application?? Usually we don’t face such scenarios. However if such requirement comes in picture, we will see how easy it is to communicate with multiple DBs using repository pattern in .Net Core Web API. To configure mongoDB, we need to install mongoDB...

The main data representation in REST is referred to as a resource. A properly named resource makes an API simple to use and intuitive. That same API, when implemented incorrectly, may feel complicated and be challenging to use and comprehend. The following article will assist you in getting started when...

Full stack development is the process of developing an application’s front end and back end. The process involves the business logic layer, also known as the back end server side area, which specializes in data validation, and the presentation layer also referred to as the front end area, which specializes...

There are a lot of problems that spring from leaving a codebase unattended and uncared for longer periods of time. That’s why code refactoring is a big part of keeping digital products functional in the long term. How to know if your code needs refactoring and what are the consequences...

Writing code can be very exciting but it also can be very frustrating if your code is based on nested loops. Iterations are still one the most important parts of coding. So how can we avoid using ugly nested loops in our code? LINQ — Language Integrated Query Microsoft language...

Singleton and Static classes can only have one instance available in memory, and both classes can be used to maintain the global state of an application, however, there are many differences between them. In this article, I explain what their differences are. Singleton Singleton is one of the creational patterns...

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...

Entity Framework Core is recommended and the most popular tool for interacting with relational databases on ASP NET Core. It is powerful enough to cover most possible scenarios, but like any other tool, it has its limitations. Long time people said (not without reason) that Entity Frmaework does not match...

Schedule and run background jobs using this powerful framework Disclaimer: the image mentioned in this article is currently marked as preview. Opinions expressed therein are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer. Hangfire provides a framework that performs background processing for .NET and...