There are a bunch of different ways to do this, but sometimes I find myself wanting to run multiple web applications locally on different ports without fussing with configuration files, etc. And whenever I need to do this, I always have to look it up… but most of the posts out there are how to … [Read more…]
Recently my team upgraded to .NET Core 2.2. We have an API that needs to be accessed from an Angular project living in a different domain, so we had CORS enabled this way: Disclaimer: this is an intranet application – so it is only accessible inside of a corporate firewall, making it more acceptable to … [Read more…]
There’s been more than a couple times where I’ve wanted to use the Parallel class to take a collection and rip through it with multiple threads, but I’ve struggled with how to log the progress (especially the count of objects processed) easily. Interlocked .NET actually provides the solution in a static class called Interlocked, located … [Read more…]
Enums are useful because they help you avoid magic numbers. You can write your code in a way that is easy to read and understand from the human’s perspective, which, at the end of the day, is pretty important. Exposing enums on your Web API I want to share my enums with other things, notably … [Read more…]
In the last post I talked about using and extending IActionResult to return your preferred HttpStatus code in your ASP.NET MVC controllers. But how do you write unit tests that make sure that you’re returning what you expect? Your controllers will return one of these: IActionResult There’s nothing on this interface that you can easily … [Read more…]
When I’m designing a RESTful API, I like to use the correct verbs for the correct actions, and return HTTP status codes that convey the correct message. Sure, its easy to just return a 200 OK for everything, but its a little more useful to return 204 No Content if your client shouldn’t navigate away … [Read more…]
As far as backend technologies are concerned, I really like ASP.NET and Web API. It is really easy to set up, and basically anything can talk HTTP. For front end development, I have grown to really really enjoy AngularJS. As far as an IDE is concerned, I really like Visual Studio. The problem that I’ve … [Read more…]
I am a SignalR junkie. Having an application provide real time updates opens up a ton of opportunities. I would even go as far as to say it is the way things are supposed to be — its a much more natural experience for the user to have pertinent information show up automatically. I usually … [Read more…]