C#/.NET/Cloud Tutorials
In this blog post, I am going to walk through how to run background tasks in ASP.Net Core Web applications using infrastructure and API provided by the ASP.Net Core framework. There are a lot of scenarios where you want to run a task continuously in the background. Often times, we create our own interface and … Read more
SQLite is a small, fast, full-featured SQL database engine, that is written in C. And it runs in the same process as the application itself. It is highly reliable and self-contained. In this blog post, I am going to walk through how to use SQLite with Dapper (a Micro-ORM). Just like any other database, if … Read more
I have been browsing around for finding a good alternative for Dapper. That is when I came across RepoDb. RepoDb is a Hybrid ORM framework, that comes between Dapper and Entity Framework Core. I absolutely love the simplicity of Dapper but at the same time, I miss the Auto-generated SQL at times, which comes with … Read more
In the age of cloud computing and agile development, continuous deployment is key to success in any product. But the main bottleneck comes with deploying databases, where usually human intervention is needed to do so. FluentMigrator comes to rescue us here. FluentMigrator is a database migration framework for .Net Framework and .Net Core. In this … Read more
One of the confusion I had when I initially started using IQueryable, was why do we have both IEnumerable and IQueryable. What is the difference between IEnumerable VS IQueryable? That is when I started digging into this topic. Also, a few of my YouTube subscribers were interested in knowing more about this topic. Hence, I … Read more
LINQ (Language-Integrated Query) was introduced in C# language with .Net Framework version 3.5. The main distinction that LINQ brings to the table, is the ability to write queries with type check. In traditional query language, the query construct is sting based. And these languages do not support type check or IntelliSense. Above all, there are … Read more
We all know the importance of API documentation. But in most cases, the API documentation is outside of code, and that ends up creating discrepancies between the API and its documentation. Swagger (OpenAPI specifications) solves exactly that problem. Swagger is an implementation of OpenAPI specifications. In the blog post, I am going to walk through … Read more
In this blog post, I am going to cover Migrations in Entity Framework Core. This is the feature, in my opinion, that is extremely necessary for a fast-paced development environment. In Entity Framework Core, we can use in-line queries or the API provided by the entity framework core for accessing data. The advantage of doing … Read more
Health checks are a critical part of any distributed system. Especially in the era of microservices, it is extremely important to understand if the service is running healthy or not. In this blog, I will walk through how to implement Health Checks in ASP.Net Core. ASP.Net Core provides support for health checks out of the … Read more
A lot of times, we need to create applications that need some sort of time-based scheduling. Hangfire helps us right there. Hangfire provides a very easy and fluent way to create and manage scheduled jobs. The disadvantage of creating a solution for scheduling job from scratch are the following: Firstly, it is usually cumbersome and … Read more