gRPC allows you to develop high-performance service in .NET FW 6. This post outlines the performance improvements made in gRPC in .NET 6, support to handling transient faults, client side load balancing and developing gRPC over HTTP/3. It also outlines the sample gRPC project creation using Visual Studio 2022. What is gRPC? gRPC is an open source remote procedure call framework allows to...
Analyzing root cause live site issues using Azure Portal
Quickly determining the root-cause of live site issue(s) that hosted in AZURE is important. The standard alerts that you setup in monitoring system might help you in alerting the problem and wouldn’t always help you in finding immediately the root-cause of the failure. Azure Portal introduced a new feature called “Application Change Analysis” under AppService. What is...
Building a Secure ASP.NET Core Web API
This post outlines the steps that require to secure ASP.NET Core 3.0(preview) Web API using AZURE AD. Web API uses Azure AD as identity provider which implements the OAuth2 standards. In this case AZURE AD grants the tokens to applications. Don’t get confused with OpenIDConnect and OAuth2. OpenIDConnect protocol implements OAuth2 standards. OpenID is not just for APIs, it can be used for...
ASP.NET Core 1 details
ASP.NET core is different from ASP.NET in the past.ASP.NET core is just bunch of libraries; it doesn’t have any host process that comes with it. ASP.NET core is completely decoupled from System.web dll. This post outlines the following ASP.NET Core 1 features in detail · ASP.NET Core hosting · Request handling · Routing · MVC Application Parts You provide the host process for example when...
Front End development with Node and Jade
This post outlines how Jade Templates helps you to build the front end pages using Node. When you install node then you will get Jade as a default templating engine. Why Jade for templating in Node? Jade is a templating language to simplify writing HTML. Jade syntax and keywords map directly to HTML.Jade add ability to separate and extend your HTML.Jade generates cleaner html and dynamically...
What is Node Express?
Node Express is a minimal, open source and flexible node.js web app framework designed to develop websites, web apps and APIs much easier. Especially developing single page applications is easy with node express. This post outlines the node express features , creating a simple REST API and interacting with Mongo database to get the data and show on views. Why should I use Node Express...
Explore what Node.js is?
What is Node.js? Node.js is a runtime environment and library for running JavaScript applications outside the browser. If you are a JavaScript developer and you are used to doing front-end stuff then you can take that knowledge and use it in server side backend.Node.js is mostly used to run real-timer server applications and it shines performance using non-blocking I/O and asynchronous...
The new ASP.NET Core Overview
ASP.NET Core (previously ASP.NET 5) is a new open-source and cross-platform framework for building modern cloud-based Web applications using .NET. This is completely re-done new framework designed for building modern web applications. What is this new ASP.NET Core framework all about? Daniel Roth spoke about the new ASP.NET Core in Build 2016 and content is based on his demos and session...
What is new in Web Extension Pack?
Web Extension Pack is set of extensions that helps you to become more productive in web development. Mads Kristensen has demoed the web extension pack features on channel 9. There are quite a number of extensions available for web developers in visual studio gallery but finding these extensions is little difficult without knowing they exist, what if you have a extension pack that will install...
Error Handling in Web API Design
This post outlines how to manage the errors and status codes using modal validation, exception filter s and global exception handling. The common status codes that you deal while you are writing Web API code Model Validation is a very power full capability of web API. It is a data annotation library and allows you to annotate your classes and indicate different types, ranges and validations. You...