Ninject is a lightning-fast, ultra-lightweight dependency injector for .NET applications. It helps you split your application into a collection of loosely-coupled, highly-cohesive pieces, and then glue them back together in a flexible manner. By using Ninject to support your software’s architecture, your code will become easier to write, reuse, test, and modify. To test if the […]
In today’s age, awesome online experiences are a crucial element to building a loyal fanbase. While a positive digital experience can lead to brand advocacy, one that fails to meet expectations on things like site speed can lead a prospect running in the other direction. In fact, Google engineers have discovered the blink of an eye […]
Using cutting edge technology means overcoming that initial learning curve. Many times, we would like to just jump in and get started without starting from scratch. But as we all know the best meals are the ones that are well prepared, and rushing into things too quickly ends up making someone sick or leaving an […]
One of the goals in ASP.NET Core 2.0 has been to clean up the basic templates, simplify the basic use-cases, and make it easier to get started with new projects. This is evident in the new Program and Startup classes, which, on the face of it, are much simpler than their ASP.NET Core 1.0 counterparts. In this post, I’ll take a […]
In this article, I want to explore IOptionsSnapshot and show how to work with IOptionsSnapshot in ASP.NET Core 1.1. We will use the dot-net CLI to create a new project and configure it using the reload technique in combination with IOptionsSnapshot. Make sure you are using at least ASP.NET Core 1.1. Get started by creating […]
There is nothing more frustrating to a customer or client who is unable to access the website of a company, bank or retailer. Multiple emails and attempts to “check out” often lead to the viewpoint of “forget them; I will just go to another e-retailer to see if they have it in stock.” Equally frustrating, and […]
If you are getting started with ASP.NET Core, you are probably wondering what has changed with logging. In short, the answer is both nothing and everything. The common logging libraries you have always used with .NET still work. Microsoft does provide its own interface for logging with .NET Core and it uses it for .NET […]
In this post, I will cover the Form tag helper that is used to bind a Form element to a particular MVC controller action or named route. This tag helper is an alternative to the following HTML helper method syntax: @using (Html.BeginForm(“ControllerName”, “ActionName”)) { //Form Contents Here } Binding to Controller Action With the […]
The hosting model for ASP.NET Core is dramatically different from previous versions of ASP.NET. This is also one area where I’ve seen a fair amount of misunderstanding. ASP.NET Core is a set of libraries you can install into a project using the NuGet package manager. One of the packages you might install for HTTP message […]
This post is about hosting ASP.NET Core applications on Heroku using Docker. Heroku is a cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages that is used as a web application deployment model. Heroku, one of the first cloud platforms, has been in development since June 2007, when it supported only the Ruby programming language, but now […]
