Running ASP.NET Core 1.0 in Docker
This post is about running your ASP.NET Core application on Docker for Windows. Docker containers wrap a piece of software in a complete filesystem that contains everything needed to run: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries – anything that can be installed on a server. Recently Docker introduced Docker for...
Using Application Insights in ASP.NET Core
This post is to about using Application Insights in ASP.NET Core. Application Insights is an extensible analytics platform that monitors the performance and usage of your live ASP.NET Core web applications. To use Application Insights, you need to create one Application Insights. It is still in Preview mode, you can...
How to configure Kestrel URLs in ASP.NET Core RC2
This post is to about configuring Kestrel URLs. Prior RC2, you can configure the Kestrel URLs in the project.json using –server.urls option, inside the Web command section. And if nothing specified, it will use the default binding http://localhost:5000. As of RC2 we have a new unified toolchain (the .NET Core...
Using WebSockets in ASP.NET Core
This post is to about using WebSockets in your ASP.NET Core application.WebSockets is an advanced technology that makes it possible to open an interactive communication session between the user’s browser and a server. With this API, you can send messages to a server and receive event-driven responses without having to...
How to host your ASP.NET Core in a Windows Service
This post is to about hosting your ASP.NET Core application as Windows Service. This implementation is not relevent on dotnet core, since Windows service feature is only available on Windows. First you need reference of “Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting” and “Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.WindowsServices” in the project.json file. Here is the project.json file. { "dependencies": {...
Creating your first ASP.NET Core Web API with Swashbuckle
This post is to help developers on how to create interactive interface which represent their Restful API to provide a rich discovery, documentation and playground experience to their API consumers in ASP.NET Core Web API. First you need to create an ASP.NET Core web api project. In this post I...
Unit test ASP.NET Core Applications with MSTest
This post is about running aspnet core unit tests with MS Test. Few days back Microsoft announced support of MS Test for ASP.NET Core RC2 applications. And MS released two nuget packages to support the development as well as tooling. Similar to XUnit, MS Test also require reference of MS...
Using ASP.NET Core RC2 in Appveyor
This post is about using ASP.NET Core RC2 in Appveyor for Continuous Integration. Recently Microsoft released RC2 version of ASP.NET Core. But for Windows OS, there is an installer exe available.(Unlike DNX there is not commandline / powershell install options.) In this post I am downloading the binaries and extracting...
UI Automation for your Universal(UWP) apps with Appium
This post is about how to implement UI Automation for your Universal(UWP) apps with Appium. Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid and mobile web apps. It drives iOS and Android apps using the WebDriver protocol. To start first you need to download the...
Using Kudu with Microsoft Azure Web Apps
This post is about Kudu. Kudu is the central nervous system of a Microsoft Azure Web Site; it handles the Git integration to a Web Site as well as provides an API endpoint for programmatic access to app settings, deployment information, files, active processes, runtime versions, source control information, web...