When it comes to storing our app secrets, Asp.Net Core has a built-in mechanism to do that out of the box. But this is not the case for Asp.Net MVC 5. For MVC 5, we need to install custom configBuilders packages in order to be able to have the same functionality. There are many other …
.Net
.NET is a large collection of a bunch of different things really; including compilers, runtimes, programming languages and a bunch of different tools and technologies.
It provides a lot of common functionality that can be tapped into rather than recreating it from scratch.
C# is one language that can be used on .NET. It get compiled initially by Roslyn and can get additional compilation at runtime by RyuJIT. Other languages include F#, which can all be compiled and run against its runtimes.
This works because it’s generally not compiled to a particularly low level language but rather to an Intermediate Language that can be executed by a .NET runtime. The runtime then does the appropriate translations to actual system/hardware calls allowing you to not have to worry about it.
When you create at least C# projects, you have to specify what runtime you’re targeting so that it can be compiled appropriately to work; not just whether it’s Framework or Core, but also the version number since functionality of the same thing may be different.
One of the goals with .NET 5+ is to reduce the confusion by bringing many of the parts together under one umbrella, but it’s going to be a while before that replaced enough existing software to really get rid of the confusion (especially since .NET 5 isn’t going to have Long Term Support).
How to Customize Windows Terminal and PowerShell Using Fzf, Neovim and Beautify it with Oh My Posh
PowerShell on its own it a very powerful tool. But what if told you can make it even better using some tools that you can install on it? Not only that but you can also make it more beautiful/handsome, perhaps with a bit of a personal touch too? So, in this post I’m going to …
Color Coder: Using Roslyn APIs For Syntax Highlighting
Couple of years ago, I’ve created a Visual Studio extension to colorize things in C#. More specifically I was trying to colorize different programming constructs such as extension methods. So it had to be done in a syntax aware manner as oppose to coloring text. For that I used Roslyn .NET compiler to do this. …
Careful Model Binding JavaScript ISO Date Format to DateTime
It is agreed by the .Net community that DateTime should not be used when we develop .Net applications. You can read more about why that here. In short the least we can do is to use DateTimeOffset instead. But this post is not about the common problems associated with using DateTime. But rather it’s about …
Using IHttpClientFactory with Asp.Net MVC 5
Recently in my company we wanted to use IHttpClientFactory with our web app. But the problem was IHttpClientFactory was originally meant to be used with Asp.Net Core and not MVC 5. So I had to find a workaround that to be able to use it with older MVC applications. So in this post I’m going …
XUnit – Part 8: Using TheoryData Instead of MemberData and ClassData
I previously wrote about using MemberData, ClassData in this post. The problem with those are their reliance on IEnumerable<object[]>. This can cause runtime issues even if we don’t get any errors at compile time. In this post I’m going to introduce a strongly typed option in xUnit called TheoryData. So in this post I’m going …
Upgrade to Asp.Net Core From Asp.Net MVC 5
I’m working on a project written with Asp.Net MVC 5 were I work. We intend first upgrade our class libraries to .Net Standard as much as we can. Then we make the move to Asp.Net Core. But since we have many class libraries, I’ve decide to first do a little search about what is the …
XUnit – Part 7: Categorizing Tests with xUnit Trait
Sometimes we only need to run a specific kind of tests and not others. In order to be able to do that we need some mechanism to categorize our tests. xUnit has a built in mechanism for this called Trait. In this post I’m going to show how we can use it to categorize our …
XUnit – Part 6: Testing The Database with xUnit Custom Attributes
In this Often we need to test our database code. There are a lot of ways to do that, but I think the cleanest way is to create a custom attribute for it. What we want to achieve is to create a custom attribute. In this attribute we pass the information need to connect to …
XUnit – Part 5: Share Test Context With IClassFixture and ICollectionFixture
xUnit has different mechanisms to share test context and dependencies. Not only it allows us to share different dependencies between tests, but also between multiple test classes. We can also choose to get a fresh set of data every time for our test. So in this post, I’m going to go though those mechanism with …