How To Use EF Core Interceptors
EF Core is my favorite ORM for .NET applications, but many of its fantastic features go unnoticed. Interceptors let you hook into materialization, han...
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How To Easily Create PDF Documents in ASP.NET Core
Reporting is essential for business applications like e-commerce, shipping, fintech, etc. One of the most popular document formats for reporting purpo...
Vertical Slice Architecture
Layered architectures are the foundation of many software systems, but they organize the system around technical layers, and the cohesion between laye...
Functional Error Handling in .NET With the Result Pattern
How should you handle errors in your code? Exceptions are for exceptional situations, and using them for flow control makes the code harder to reason ...
CQRS Pattern With MediatR
The CQRS pattern separates the writes and reads in the application, and that separation can be logical or physical. I'm going to show you what CQRS is...
Improving ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection With Scrutor
ASP.NET Core's built-in DI system sometimes needs a little help to achieve more advanced scenarios. So I want to introduce you to Scrutor, a library t...
Getting Started With NServiceBus in .NET
NServiceBus is a feature-rich messaging framework supporting many different message transports. Its basic building blocks are messages and endpoints. ...
CQRS Validation with MediatR Pipeline and FluentValidation
I consider input and business validation differently, and each deserves a specific solution. I want to show you an elegant solution for validation usi...
Monolith to Microservices: How a Modular Monolith Helps
You start building a beautiful monolith system, maybe a modular monolith. The system grows, cracks begin to appear, and at last you decide it's time t...
Feature Flags in .NET and How I Use Them for A/B Testing
Feature flags let you wrap a feature in a conditional statement and toggle it on or off at runtime, without redeploying the code. I'll cover the Micro...
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