I discussed in an earlier post that it is good practice to define middleware in a separate class and add to the pipeline using extension methods. We may also need to pass information to our middlew...

ASP.NET Core gives a unified mechanism for creating MVC and Web API application. The key difference is that Web API will return JSON (or XML) and HTTP status codes instead of views, in order to com...

I discussed in the previous post how configuration settings can be stored in configuration files. However, these files are checked in the source control and not suitable to store confidential setti...

Filtering information is usually received via query parameters. The POCO FilteringParamssimply hold this information and passes to service (or repository).

Paging information; i.e., page number and page size, is usually received via query parameters. The POCO PagingParams simply holds this information and passes it to service (or repository).

Sorting information is usually received via query parameters. The POCO SortingParams simply hold this information and passes to service (or repository).

As your Web API changes, you would need to add versioning support in order for clients to continue working correctly. Adding versioning support in ASP.NET Core involves first configuring services i...

The idea behind HATEOAS (Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State) is to transfer links in the resource representations. The sample demonstrates how links can be provided for a collection and ...

We add a magic value to the response based on data we hold at the time. Usually ETag header is added for this purpose containing hashed value based on data/body of response.

In case you’re wondering if the solution above is missing a Tag Helper for head HTML element, it’s not. ASP.NET Core team has provided us with two built-in Tag Helpers, one targets head and the oth...

Let us learn about formatters used in ASP.NET Core 2.0 Web API.

Documents generated by Swagger can include XML documentation.

We’ll create a library to wrap the functionality of HttpClient. I’ll use builder pattern for this purpose. Add a class with methods for storing parts of HttpClient.

How to implement asynchronous messaging using ASP.NET Core Web API. Create an empty project and update the Startup class to add services and middleware for MVC.

In the previous post, I deployed a Docker Swarm on VMs setup on my local PC, which is fine for testing. In this post I’ll deploy the same services on a Docker Swarm hosted in Azure using “Docker EE...

Please read the previous posts before continuing with this one. I have discussed the basics of Docker and shown how to deploy simple and multiple applications using Docker. In this post, I will use...

In a previous post, I showed how to use cookie authentication middleware to protect your web application. ASP.NET Core also provides a richer set of services, called Identity, to work with user aut...

Bearer Tokens (or just Tokens) are commonly used to authenticate Web APIs because they are framework independent, unlike something like Cookie Authentication that is tightly coupled with ASP.NET Co...

In this article, we are going to implement Swagger using the SwashbuckleNuget Package.

In this article, you will learn how to handle Attachments/Files into CouchDB Via Rest API in ASP.NET Core.