Getting started with Cosmos DB SQL Provider for Entity Framework Core
This post is about working with Cosmos DB SQL Provider for Entity Framework Core. Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model database. With the click of a button, Azure Cosmos DB enables you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of Azure’s geographic regions. First...
Enable HTTP2 on Kestrel
This post is about enabling HTTP2 on Kestrel. HTTP/2 is a major revision of the HTTP protocol. Some of the notable features of HTTP/2 are support for header compression and fully multiplexed streams over the same connection. While HTTP/2 preserves HTTP’s semantics (HTTP headers, methods, etc.) it is a breaking...
Azure Virtual Machine Custom domain using Azure DNS Zone
This post is about how to use custom domain name for Azure VM using Azure DNS. A DNS zone is used to host the DNS records for a particular domain. Azure DNS allows you to host your DNS zone and manage your DNS records, and provides name servers that will...
Create a build pipeline for Angular and ASP.NET Core apps with Visual Studio Team Services
This post is about creating a build pipeline for your Angular and ASP.NET Core apps with Visual Studio Team Services. If you don’t have a VSTS account, you need to create a VSTS account, then a project, you can use default values. In this post I am using GitHub as...
Anti-forgery validation with asp dotnet core and angular
This post is about enabling Anti-forgery validation in single page applications using ASP.NET Core and Angular. The anti-forgery token can be used to help protect your application against cross-site request forgery. In earlier versions of ASP.NET, you had to explicitly decorate a controller or an action method to enable Anti-forgery,...
.NET Core code coverage with Jetbrains dotCover
This post is about how to measure .net core code coverage with Jetbrains dotCover. dotCover is a .NET Unit Test Runner and Code Coverage Tool. First you need to install the dotCover.CommandLineTools package from nuget. Instead of referencing it in the project file, you need to modify the project file...
Perform CRUD operations using OData in ASP.NET Core
This post is about how to perform CRUD operations with OData in ASP.NET Core. On July 2018, Microsoft OData Team is announced general availability (GA) of OData (Open OData Protocol) on ASP.NET Core 2.0. First you need to add the reference of Microsoft.AspNetCore.OData package. Next you need to add the...
Building ASP.NET Core apps with Xamarin Forms and Ooui
This post about developing ASP.NET Core apps with Xamarin Forms and Ooui. Xamarin.Forms exposes a complete cross-platform UI toolkit for .NET developers. Build fully native Android, iOS, and Universal Windows Platform apps using C# in Visual Studio. And Ooui is a small cross-platform UI library that brings the simplicity of...
Running console applications in Windows containers
Hangfire is framework which helps to perform background operations in .NET and .NET Core. By default, Hangfire will be configured along with the application, but you need to configure the Web App to run Always running. For better scalability and separation of concerns, it is recommended to move the job...
Generate code quality report using VSTS task
While implementing CI for one of the project, I implemented code quality check using Resharper Code Quality Analysis task. This task can fail the build, but this task will not generate a report. Since this task is internally using Inspectcode.exe, it will be able to generate the output XML file....