A Blog About Random Computer Subjects
I’ve discussed using the in-memory database object for Entity Framework in the blog post titled: Dot Net Core In Memory Unit Testing Using xUnit. That was for .Net Core 1.1. Now I’m going to show a larger example of the in-memory database object for .Net Core 2.0. There is only one minor difference in the … Read moreUnit Testing EF Data With Core 2.0
Summary In this blog post, I’m going to introduce the JWT (pronounced “jot”) token concept. I’m going to use the code presented in this article (click here) to demonstrate how a token is created and then I’ll discuss the parts of the token and how it is used. Sample Token Using the article code, I … Read moreJWT Tokens
Introduction If you’ve ever written an API and used it in a real-world application, you’ll discover the need to make changes to enhance your software. The problem with changing an API is that once the interface has been published and used by other applications, the end points cannot be changed. The best way to deal … Read moreVersioning Your APIs
Introduction I’ve discussed using the in-memory Entity Framework unit tests in a previous post (here). In this post, I’m going to demonstrate a simple way to use Moq to unit test a method that uses Entity Framework Core. Setup For this sample, I used the POCOs, context and config files from this project (here). You … Read moreUnit Testing EF Data With Moq
Summary I’ve shown how to generate POCOs (Plain Old C# Objects) using the scaffold tool for .Net Core 1 in an earlier post. Now I’m going to show how to do it in Visual Studio 2017 with Core 2.0. Install NuGet Packages First, you’ll need to install the right NuGet Packages. I prefer to use … Read moreCreating POCOs in .Net Core 2.0
Summary In this post I’m going to demonstrate the proper way to serialize XML and setup unit tests using xUnit and .Net Core. I will also be using Visual Studio 2017. Generating XML JSON is rapidly taking over as the data encoding standard of choice. Unfortunately, government agencies are decades behind the technology curve and … Read moreXML Serialization
Introduction In this post, I’m going to talk about basic dependency injection and mocking a method that is used to access hardware. The method I’ll be mocking is the System.IO.Directory.Exists(). Mocking Methods One of the biggest headaches with unit testing is that you have to make sure you mock any objects that your method under … Read moreMocking Your File System
Summary In this blog post I’m going to demonstrate a simple .Net MVC project that uses MS SQL server to access data. Then I’m going to show how to use Redis caching to cache your results to reduce the amount of traffic hitting your database. Finally, I’m going to show how to use the AutoFac … Read more.Net MVC Project with AutoFac, SQL and Redis Cache
The Contenders Dapper Dapper is a hybrid ORM. This is a great ORM for those who have a lot of ADO legacy code to convert. Dapper uses SQL queries and parameters can be used just like ADO, but the parameters to a query can be simplified into POCOs. Select queries in Dapper can also be … Read moreDotNet Core vs. NHibernate vs. Dapper Smackdown!
One of the most frustrating changes made in .Net Core is the NuGet package manager. I like the way the new package manager works, unfortunately, there are still a lot of bugs in the way the package manager works. I call it the tyranny of intelligent software. The software is supposed to do all the … Read moreDot Net Core and NuGet Packages