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Hello everyone, and welcome back to dotnetcorecentral. I have been receiving requests from a few of you to create a post and YouTube video on unit testing with SQLite and .Net Core. So here it is. What is SQLite SQLite is a fully-featured SQL database engine. It is a small, fast, self-contained and highly reliable … Read more
Hello everyone, and welcome back to dotnetcorecentral. Its been a couple of months since I did my last post. I was busy with work and family commitment. Finally got some time to write a post. Today I will focus on how we can use Autofac as a DI container for ASP.Net Core application. What is … Read more
Entity Framework Core is the .Net Core version of Entity Framework. Which is an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) tool for .Net Framework to work with databases.Entity Framework Core has the following features, which differentiates it from the classic Entity Framework: It is cross-platform (by the virtue of being built for .Net Core) Extensible And lightweight … Read more
In the last post Unit testing with Machine.Specifications (aka MSpecs) and FakeItEasy, I have covered basic unit testing with MSpecs and FakeItEasy. Today first I am going to go through some more tests. And then I will cover the concepts of white-box testing with MSpecs and FakeItEasy. New tests for positive cases In the last … Read more
Unit testing is very critical for any application. In this blog post, I will walk through unit testing using Machine.Specifications (aka MSpecs) and FakeItEasy. The focus of unit testing is to test a unit of code in isolation of everything around it. Meaning we just test the method in questions and not the dependencies. Also … Read more
Akka.Net helps build a solution that can both scale-up as well as scale-out. And the key concept that makes it happens is the messaging infrastructure of Akka.Net. Akka.Net does not provide guaranteed delivery, just like any other actor implementation. What is supports is the at most once delivery of the message. Which means the message … Read more
Distributed and concurrent systems are norms rather than the exception these days. And there is no other better framework to build a distributed system than Akka. In this blog post, I am going to discuss building applications with Akka in .Net Core. Akka is an implementation of the Actor model. Akka encapsulates all the complex … Read more
In my previous posts ASP.Net Core Web API Application with Dapper – Part 1 and ASP.Net Core Web API Application with Dapper – Part 2 I have covered using SQL Server and Dapper for database and data access layer. In this post, I will be exploring PostgreSQL (aka Postgres) as a database and Dapper for … Read more
Hello everyone, welcome back to .Net Core Central. Today I am going to continue with streaming using ASP.Net Core SignalR, which I started by integrating with Kafka, then Reactive Extensions, and today I will be working with SignalR. If you have not gone through my previous posts ASP.Net Core Streaming Application Using Kafka – Part … Read more
Hello everyone, welcome back to .Net Core Central. Today I am going to integrate Reactive Extensions into the .Net Core application. I am going to use application created in my previous post, where I have implemented Kafka stream in .Net Core. This will allow a smooth transition of the Kafka stream into the in-memory Reactive … Read more