Hello and welcome In today's post, we will discuss mocking/stubbing lambda expressions so that we can have a bit more control over our unit tests. Keep in mind that I'm by no means versed in expression trees so I will try my best to explain. What is an Expression and how to use it Going … Continue reading Mocking LINQ Expressions
Dependency Injection
Application triggers for Asp.Net Core 2.1 entity framework core
Hello and welcome 🙂 Today I wanted to talk about extending your application and your DbContext to run arbitrary code when a save occurs. The backstory While working with quite a few applications that work with databases especially using entity framework, I noticed the pattern of saving changes to the database and then do something … Continue reading Application triggers for Asp.Net Core 2.1 entity framework core
Branching authentication in Asp.Net Core 2.1
Hello and welcome 🙂 In the last post I hinted at using SignalR and query strings to branch how a user is authenticated. Backstory I ended up in this scenario when one of the requirements for the system was that it needs to be embedded into the client's system, that means that we would have … Continue reading Branching authentication in Asp.Net Core 2.1
Background worker in ASP.Net Core
Hello and Welcome :), Today we are going to discuss how we can add functionality to an APS.Net Core application outside of a request. The code for this post can be found here. The story As some, if not all of you know, web servers usually only work in the context of a request. So … Continue reading Background worker in ASP.Net Core
Let’s talk about MEF – Part 1
Hello and welcome :), This series is retired due to me spending most of my time on the .net core side. Thanks to feedback, this series might be revived at one point under .net core since I recently found out that there is a port for MEF on .net core but at this point I … Continue reading Let’s talk about MEF – Part 1
Rolling our own IoC
Hello and welcome 🙂 Previously we talked about what Dependency Inversion and Dependency Injection are, today we’re going to look at what an Inversion of Control (IoC) container is and how it works. In the future, we will also have a look at what are the common implementations of IoCs available and which are my … Continue reading Rolling our own IoC
Dependency Inversion and Dependency Injection
Hello and welcome, Across the posts, there has been the mention about something called Dependency Inversion or Dependency Injection. In this post, we will take a deeper look at what that actually means and what how it helps us. Dependency Inversion When we talk about dependency inversion we talk about how we structure our projects … Continue reading Dependency Inversion and Dependency Injection
FileSystem Syncher – Part 3
Hello and welcome, I thought it's just about the time we continue from where we were in the last part of this project. As always if you want to follow along, the source code from last time can be found here. The reason there is a new release and not just continuing from last time … Continue reading FileSystem Syncher – Part 3
Building Steps 