Customize Create and initialize field option in Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio
This post is Customize Create and initialize field refactoring option in Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. When you add a parameter to a constructor, VS Code and Visual Studio gives an option to Create and initialize field. But if you haven’t configured any custom naming conventions, it will create...
How to use Bootstrap style validation in ASP.NET Core
This post is about using Bootstrap 4 style validation in ASP.NET Core. By default ASP.NET Core validation messages will be displayed in the bottom of the invalid control. And even if we are using bootstrap, the validation styles won’t be applied. In this post I will explain how to configure...
Write your first GitHub action - Part 3
In the last post we learned about deploying a NuGet package to nuget.org using dotnet nuget push command. In this post, we will learn how to deploy an ASP.NET Core Web API application to Azure App Service. For deploying web apps to Azure App services, Microsoft introduced an Action, we...
Write your first GitHub action - Part 2
In the last post we learned about working with GitHub actions and creating a CI workflow for our dotnet core application. In this post, we will learn how to deploy the middleware to nuget.org using dotnet nuget push command. The dotnet pack command helps you to create nuget package from...
Write your first GitHub action - Part 1
GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows. GitHub actions is still in Beta and it is free for Open source projects. This post is writing your first GitHub action for implementing continuous integration for a dotnet core application. Similar to Azure DevOps or Travis CI, it...
How to Mock Entity Framework DbContext for Unit Testing
This post is about how to mock entity framework DbContext class for unit testing without any third party framework. The dotnet core framework designed and developed considering testability of the apps in mind. Usually for testing the applications which interacts with database, we used to follow two approaches 1) We...
Default implementations in interfaces
This post is about the new C# 8.0 feature Default implementations in interfaces. This feature helps you to provide an implementation for your new method in an interface. So you won’t break existing implementation by adding a new method. From the documentation - An interface member can now be specified...
Get all blobs in a container and change the content type.
This post is about getting all the blobs in a container and change the content type. This tip or snippet is quite useful in scenarios where you want to change content type of big number of blobs. This is a tip or snippet more than a blog post. I faced...
Working with gRPC in ASP.NET Core
This post is about Working with gRPC in ASP.NET Core. gRPC is a language agnostic, high-performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework. The main benefits of gRPC are: Modern high-performance lightweight RPC framework. Contract-first API development, using Protocol Buffers by default, allowing for language agnostic implementations. Tooling available for many languages...
Resizing Images using Azure Functions
This post is about how to resize images uploaded to a blob storage using Azure functions. In my current project, system used to resize the image while uploading the image to blob storage. This approach got two major drawbacks - the process will take some time and the resize is...