In today’s interconnected digital landscape, Restful APIs are the backbone of countless applications, enabling seamless communication and data exchange between different systems. For developers building services with ASP.NET Core, adhering to best practices is crucial for creating robust, scalable, and maintainable APIs. This article summarizes key guidelines to help you design effective Restful APIs within …
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Asp.Net Core Best Practices: A Summary
There are a lot of different small points to remember about Asp.Net Core best practices. This post intends to summarize the most important points in a way that makes it easy to preuse quickly. This post does not try to be a comprehensive guide, but a quick reference for many different points that exist on …
Security Best Practices: A Comprehensive Guide
In this article we’re going to go through some security best practices around the technologies that I’ve used over the years I’ve been working as a software developer. I’m going delve into multiple security topics related to different technology, but I’ll try to keep it in checklist format and short for it to be easier …
C# Entity Framework and LINQ Best Practices
There are a lot of points about best practices when using Entity Framework and LINQ. Sometimes we need to cipher through a lot of information. The goal of this article is to summarize some of the best practices when it comes to using LINQ and Entity Framework in a way that is easy to digest. …
C# Asynchronous and Parallel Programming Best Practices
I’ve already written about Asynchronous and Parallel programming before here and here. This is one of those subjects that can be tricky and is the source of a lot of bugs. But I feel the posts that I’ve written before might be too long or they are too specialized, hence not very approchable. In this …
Duende Identity Server: Risks of Sharing Clients and Tokens
In the past, I leveraged the open-source Identity Server version 4 (Read about my experience with it here). But recently, Identity Server has become proprietary, offering price plans that are not always seen as favorable. Especially if a company wants to support on premise instances of the app as opposed to SAAS. That means a …
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 …
Integration Test In Asp.Net Core 6 Using SqlServer Image and TestContainers
This post is about writing integration tests and TestContainers. As you might know writing integration tests against the in-memory provider is a bad practice. Because it only works well with trivial solutions. Mostly because the in-memory API of IQueryProvider doesn’t match the LINQ query provider. Here’s a good article called “Avoid In-Memory Databases for Tests” …
Unable to locate the .NET SDK: The Reasons
The other day after installing some windows update, I tried to open Visual Studio. I opened my project and I received an error regarding .Net Sdk. The project file cannot be opened. Unable to locate the .NET SDK. Check that it is installed and that the version specified in global.json (if any) matches the installed …
Enum Serialization: System.Text.Json vs Utf8Json vs Jil vs Newtonsoft
I was reading about the new System.Text.Json in .net core 3 and comparing its speed to other libraries. You can read more about it here if you’re interested. To put it shortly, the new serializer is faster then Newtonsoft but not as fast as others. Also the enum serialization between different libraries can be inconsistent. …