In my previous post, I posted about Some cool Project.json features with ASP.NET Core and also mentioned about announcement made by Microsoft in May 2016 that Project.json will be going away so as .xproj and .csproj will make a comeback for .NET Core. This change was supposed to come out after tooling preview 2 release and in one of recent nightly build release of .NET core, this change is introduced. So bye-bye Project.json and .xproj and welcome back .csproj.
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As of today, Project.json is the way to define your dependencies, managing runtime frameworks, compilation settings, adding scripts to execute at different events (Prebuild, Postbuild etc.) for ASP.NET Core projects. Though, it will be no longer available in future releases of ASP.NET Core. But since it is available till now, and I used couple of features which I found useful. So sharing those cool Project.json features with ASP.NET Core that you may also find helpful. Read More
Dapper.NET is not just another ORM tool, it’s considered as the king of ORM. Because it’s fast, easy to integrate, requires fewer lines of code, supports bulk data insertion and supports static and dynamic object binding. And Dapper ORM can be used with .NET. So in this post, let’s find out how to use Dapper ORM with ASP.NET Core for CRUD operations.
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NancyFx is a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .NET and Mono. The goal of the framework is to stay out of the way as much as possible and provide a super-duper-happy-path to all interactions. Advantage of NancyFx is, it prefers conventions over configuration and supports DELETE, GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, POST, PUT and PATCH requests and provides a simple and elegant way to return response with just a couple of keystrokes. In this post, let’s find out how to use NancyFx in ASP.NET Core. Read More
ASP.NET Core runs on conventions. It expects Startup.cs file for starting up the ASP.NET Core application and wwwroot folder for the application’s static contents. But what if you want to change the name of Startup.cs and wwwroot to your choice? Well, that can be done. In this short post, we will see how to change Startup.cs and wwwroot folder name in ASP.NET Core.
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There are some new ASP.NET Core project templates released to play with. Using these templates you can create a MVC starter application, a static website application template and Vue.js with WebPack. At this point of time, it’s not clear whether they are going to be part of official ASP.NET Core templates. To use them, you need to download a VSIX extension Read More
HangFire is an easy way to perform background processing in .NET and .NET Core applications. There isn’t any need to have a separate windows service or any separate process. Hangfire supports all kinds of background tasks – short-running and long-running, CPU intensive and I/O intensive, one shot and recurrent. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel – it is ready to use. In this post, we will see how to integrate HangFire with ASP.NET Core WEB API. Read More
