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Thoughts about repositories and ORMs or why we love rocket science!

The last architectural brain dump I did in my blog was more than three years ago. At that time it was my German blog, which was shut down unfortunately. Anyway, this is another brain dump. This time I want to write about the sense of the repository pattern in combination with an object relational mapper (ORM) like Entity Framework (EF) Core. A Brain Dump is a blog post where I write down a ...

vor 20h | 8 0 | Jürgen Gutsch

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WPF and WinForms will run on .NET Core 3

... WpfTest And yes, it is working as you can see here in Visual Studio Code: And this is the WinForms project in VS Code Running dotnet run on the WPF project: And again on the WinForms GUI: IDE Visual Studio Code isn't the right editor for this kind of projects. If you ... choice to work with WinForms and WPF on .NET Core is Visual Studio 2017 or newer. Last words I don't think I will now start to ...

11.02.2019 | 30 0 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 11: WebHostBuilder

In my post about Configuring HTTPS in ASP.NET Core 2.1, a reader asked how to configure the HTTPS settings using user secrets. "How would I go about using user secrets to pass the password to listenOptions.UseHttps(...) ? I can't fetch the configuration from within Program.cs no matter what I try. I've been Googling solutions for like a half hour so any help would be greatly ...

30.01.2019 | 45 0 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Integration testing data access in ASP.NET Core

In the last post, I wrote about unit testing data access in ASP.NET Core. This time I'm going to go into integration tests. This post shows you how to write an end-to-end test using a WebApplicationFactory and hot to write specific integration test. Unit tests vs. Integration tests I'm sure most of you already know the difference. In a few discussions I learned that some developers ...

18.01.2019 | 50 0 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Unit testing data access in ASP.NET Core

... Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics.EntityFrameworkCore -v 3.0.0-preview.18572.1 I'm currently using the preview version of .NET Core 3.0. The version number will change later on. Now we can start Visual Studio Code code . In the same console window we can call the following command to execute the tests: dotnet test WebToTest.Tests Creating the controller to test The ...

15.01.2019 | 98 2 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Unit testing data access in ASP.NET Core

... Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics.EntityFrameworkCore -v 3.0.0-preview.18572.1 I'm currently using the preview version of .NET Core 3.0. The version number will change later on. Now we can start Visual Studio Code code . In the same console window we can call the following command to execute the tests: dotnet test WebToTest.Tests Creating the controller to test The ...

15.01.2019 | 76 0 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Removing Disqus and adding GitHub Issue Comments

I recently realized that I ran this new blog for almost exactly three years now and wrote almost 100 posts until yet. Running this blog is completely different compared to the the previous one based on the community server on ASP.NET Zone. I now write on markdown files which I commit and push to GitHub. I also switched the language. From January 2007 to November 2015 I wrote in German ...

19.11.2018 | 83 0 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Removing Disqus and adding GitHub Issue Comments

I recently realized that I ran this new blog for almost exactly three years now and wrote almost 100 posts until yet. Running this blog is completely different compared to the the previous one based on the community server on ASP.NET Zone. I now write on markdown files which I commit and push to GitHub. I also switched the language. From January 2007 to November 2015 I wrote in German ...

19.11.2018 | 89 1 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Disabling comments on this blog until they are moved to GitHub

I'm going to remove the Disqus comments on this blog and move to GitHib issue based comments. The reason is, that I don't want to have advertisements that are not related to the contents of this page. Another reason is, that I want to have the full control over the comments. The third reason is related to GDPR: I've no Idea yet what Disqus is doing to protect the users privacy and how the ...

16.11.2018 | 73 0 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Disabling comments on this blog until they are moved to GitHub

I'm going to remove the Disqus comments on this blog and move to GitHib issue based comments. The reason is, that I don't want to have advertisements that are not related to the contents of this page. Another reason is, that I want to have the full control over the comments. The third reason is related to GDPR: I've no Idea yet what Disqus is doing to protect the users privacy and how the ...

16.11.2018 | 92 0 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 10: TagHelpers

This was initially planned as the last topic of this series, because this also was the last part of the talk about customizing ASP.NET Core I did in the past. See the initial post about this series. Now I have three additional customizing topics to talk about. If you like to propose another topic feel free to drop a comment in the initial post. In this tenth part of this series I'm going to ...

13.11.2018 | 131 0 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 10: TagHelpers

This was initially planned as the last topic of this series, because this also was the last part of the talk about customizing ASP.NET Core I did in the past. See the initial post about this series. Now I have three additional customizing topics to talk about. If you like to propose another topic feel free to drop a comment in the initial post. In this tenth part of this series I'm going to ...

13.11.2018 | 255 2 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 09: ActionFilter

This post is a little late this time. My initial plan was to throw out two posts of this series per week, but this doesn't work out, since there are sometimes some more family and work tasks to do than expected. Anyway, we keep on customizing on the controller level in this ninth post of this blog series. I'll have a look into ActionFilters and hot to create your own ActionFilter to keep ...

29.10.2018 | 126 0 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 09: ActionFilter

This post is a little late this time. My initial plan was to throw out two posts of this series per week, but this doesn't work out, since there are sometimes some more family and work tasks to do than expected. Anyway, we keep on customizing on the controller level in this ninth post of this blog series. I'll have a look into ActionFilters and hot to create your own ActionFilter to keep ...

29.10.2018 | 178 0 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 08: ModelBinders

In the last post about OutputFormatters I wrote about sending data out to the clients in different formats. In this post we are going to do it the other way. This post is about data you get into your Web API from outside. What if you get data in a special format or what if you get data you need to validate in a special way. ModelBinders will help you handling this. The series topics ...

17.10.2018 | 97 0 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 08: ModelBinders

In the last post about OutputFormatters I wrote about sending data out to the clients in different formats. In this post we are going to do it the other way. This post is about data you get into your Web API from outside. What if you get data in a special format or what if you get data you need to validate in a special way. ModelBinders will help you handling this. The series topics ...

17.10.2018 | 256 0 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 07: OutputFormatter

... packages to it. GenFu is a awesome library to easily create test data. The second one helps us to easily write CSV data. Now open the project in Visual Studio or in Visual Studio Code and open the ValuesController.cs and change the Get() method like this: [HttpGet] public ActionResult IEnumerable Person Get() { var persons A.ListOf Person (25); return persons; } This crates a ...

11.10.2018 | 77 0 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 07: OutputFormatter

... packages to it. GenFu is a awesome library to easily create test data. The second one helps us to easily write CSV data. Now open the project in Visual Studio or in Visual Studio Code and open the ValuesController.cs and change the Get() method like this: [HttpGet] public ActionResult IEnumerable Person Get() { var persons A.ListOf Person (25); return persons; } This crates a ...

11.10.2018 | 295 3 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 06: Middlewares

Wow, it is already the sixth part of this series. In this post I'm going to write about middlewares and how you can use them to customize your app a little more. I quickly go threw the basics about middlewares and than I'll write about some more specials things you can do with middlewares. The series topics Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 01: Logging Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 02: ...

08.10.2018 | 76 0 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 06: MiddleWares

Wow, it is already the sixth part of this series. In this post I'm going to write about middlewares and how you can use them to customize your app a little more. I quickly go threw the basics about middlewares and than I'll write about some more specials things you can do with middlewares. The series topics Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 01: Logging Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 02: ...

08.10.2018 | 347 0 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 05: HostedServices

This fifth part of this series doesn't really show a customization. This part is more about a feature you can use to create background services to run tasks asynchronously inside your application. Actually I use this feature to regularly fetch data from a remote service in a small ASP.NET Core application. The series topics Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 01: Logging Customizing ...

04.10.2018 | 49 0 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 05: HostedServices

This fifth part of this series doesn't really show a customization. This part is more about a feature you can use to create background services to run tasks asynchronously inside your application. Actually I use this feature to regularly fetch data from a remote service in a small ASP.NET Core application. The series topics Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 01: Logging Customizing ...

04.10.2018 | 372 4 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 04: HTTPS

... To create such a certificate file to just play around with this configuration open the certificate store and export the development certificate created by visual studio . For your safety Use the following line ONLY to play around with this configuration: listenOptions.UseHttps("certificate.pfx", "topsecret"); The problem is the hard coded password. Never ever store a ...

01.10.2018 | 82 0 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 04: HTTPS

... To create such a certificate file to just play around with this configuration open the certificate store and export the development certificate created by visual studio . For your safety Use the following line ONLY to play around with this configuration: listenOptions.UseHttps("certificate.pfx", "topsecret"); The problem is the hard coded password. Never ever store a ...

01.10.2018 | 395 4 | Jürgen Gutsch

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Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 03: Dependency Injection

In the third part we'll take a look into the ASP.NET Core dependency injection and how to customize it to use a different dependency injection container if needed. The series topics Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 01: Logging Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 02: Configuration Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 03: Dependency Injection - This article Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 04: ...