This post is about integrating HangFire With ASP.NET Core. HangFire is an incredibly easy way to perform fire-and-forget, delayed and recurring jobs inside ASP.NET applications. CPU and I/O intensive, long-running and short-running jobs are supported. No Windows Service / Task Scheduler required. Backed by Redis, SQL Server, SQL Azure and MSMQ. Hangfire provides a unified programming model to handle background tasks in a reliable way and run them on shared hosting, dedicated hosting or in cloud. The product I am working has a feature of adding watermark to the images uploaded by users. Right now we are using a console app, which will monitor a directory in specified intervals and apply watermark to the newly uploaded images. But using HangFire we can schedule / execute the watermark opertation as a background task, instead of polling a directory for new images.

This post is about using MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) in .NET Core. The Managed Extensibility Framework or MEF is a library for creating lightweight, extensible applications. It allows application developers to discover and use extensions with no configuration required. It also lets extension developers easily encapsulate code and avoid fragile hard dependencies. MEF not only allows extensions to be reused within applications, but across applications as well.

This post is about using NLog in ASP.NET Core. NLog is a free logging platform for .NET, Xamarin, Silverlight and Windows Phone with rich log routing and management capabilities. NLog makes it easy to produce and manage high-quality logs for your application regardless of its size or complexity.

This post is about enabling Continuous Integration of .NET projects in Gitlab. Majority of GitLab’s CI examples are around Open Source technologies. In this post I will explain about implementing CI in ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core projects with Gitlab.

This post is about compiling your ASP.NET Core MVC Views. Normally in ASP.NET MVC, the views are not compiled until they are requested by the browser. To avoid this you can precompile the views. Precompile also helps to identify any errors upfront than at runtime.

This post will give a brief idea about creating and executing unit tests in dotnet core. Unit testing is a software development process in which the smallest testable parts of an application, called units, are individually and independently scrutinized for proper operation. Unit testing is often automated but it can also be done manually.

This post is about configuring and running a webserver in Azure Virtual Machine. Azure Virtual Machine is one of IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) offering from Microsoft Azure. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is an instant computing infrastructure, provisioned and managed over the Internet. Quickly scale up and down with demand and pay only for what you use.