Nanoservices – Part 5
Last time I covered the data layer for our mime-types nanoservice. That article completes my presentation of a working .NET 5.0 / Blazor based nanoservice. The only thing I have…
Nanoservices – Part 4
Last time I covered the abstractions and data logic for our nanoservice. This time I'll cover the data layer, including the database, the repositories, and any logic required to pull…
Nanoservices – Part 3
Last time I presented a quick overview of the UI portion of a nanoservice for converting from file extensions to mime types. This time I'll focus on the business logic…
Nanoservices – Part 2
Last time I laid out the justification and overall architecture for a REST based nanoservice, for converting between file extensions and mime types. This time I'll go into more detail…
Hosting Extensions – Delegates
Here is a hosting extension that I use often. It is an extension method that allows me to write a super quick console application like this: class Program { static…
Hosting Extensions – Single Instance.
Sometimes I need to prevent multiple instances of an application from running at the same time. Before .NET came along, I just dropped the code for that into the application…
DataProtector
I've migrated quite a bit of my .NET code to non-Windows platforms, this past year. As I've done so, I've re-discovered the fact that DPAPI, which is what I've traditionally…
Business Extensions
Since I write so many NUGET packages, I also tend to write more than a few extension methods containing startup / construction logic. Each library typically has at least two…
Singletons
The singleton pattern is probably one of the most overused design approaches of all times. Still, there are times when it actually makes sense to take that approach. Because of…
.NET Assembly Loader
Back in the day, I remember creating new AppDomain instances to control the scope of loaded assemblies. If I wanted to load some assemblies, then release them, that was the…