Using Automapper in ASP.NET Core project
This post is about using Automapper in ASP.NET Core project. AutoMapper is an object-object mapper which allows you to solve the problem of manually mapping each property of a class with the same properties of another class. Before AutoMapper, if you want to map properties of one object to another,...
Using FluentAssertions in dotnet core unit tests
This post is about using FluentAssertions in xUnit unit tests. Fluent Assertions is a set of .NET extension methods that allow you to more naturally specify the expected outcome of a TDD or BDD-style test. It has better support for exceptions and some other features that improves readability and makes...
Control the name of the dotnet core application output
This post is about configuring the output filename of a .NET Core application. By default compiling a .NET Core application, the output filename will be the project directory name. So if you are compiling the application from a directory abc, the output dll name will be abc.dll. This can cause...
Configuring Redis for ASP.NET Core Session Store
This post is about Configuring Redis for ASP.NET Core Session Store. Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker. It supports data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries. Redis works with an in-memory dataset....
Working with client side packages in ASP.NET Core
This post is about working with client side packages in ASP.NET Core. In this post I am using Bower as client side package manager and dotnet bundle command for bundling and minification, instead of gulp or grunt. In ASP.NET world, we were using nuget for client side packages as well....
Measuring code coverage of .NET Core applications
This post is about getting code coverage of .NET Core using Opencover. This is an update post, long back I wrote a post on code coverage using ASP.NET Core in RC days. This post is using dotnet command and 1.0 version. Opencover is a code coverage tool for .NET 2...
Middleware filter in ASP.NET Core
This post is about a new feature in ASP.NET MVC, Middleware filter. Middleware typically sits in the global request handling pipeline. If you want to apply middleware to a specific controller or action method, you can use this feature. This feature only available with ASP.NET Core MVC 1.1. Long back...
Using Response Compression Middleware in ASP.NET Core
This post is about using Response Compression Middleware in ASP.NET Core. Long back I wrote blog post on Enabling GZip Compression in ASP.NET5. It was a custom middleware I implemented in DNX days. Now as part of ASP.NET Core 1.1 Preview 1, Microsoft introduced Response Compression Middleware in ASP.NET Core....