If you are looking for another way of building web applications then Razor Pages are for you! Razor Pages are page based programming model for ASP.NET Core MVC and they makes page focused scenarios easier and more productive.
By Dawid on (tags: .NET Core 2.0, Pages, razor, categories: code)When you’ve limited network bandwidth or you are unable to use the Dynamic Compression module in IIS then ASP.NET Core 1.1 comes with rescue. ASP.NET Core team provides a middleware to handle response compression. All modern browsers support multiple compression schemes such as deflate and gzip. Using this feature in your web application can improve overall user experience. Pac…
By Dawid on (tags: compression, middleware, .NET Core 1.1, response, categories: code)What does it means to host you application in IIS? To help with that there is new module called ASP.NET Core Module.
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In previous blog post I’ve show you how to host ASP.NET Core application using Kestrel server. But why not to write our own server – in ASP.NET Core that is actually quite simple.
By Dawid on (tags: ASP.NET, core, hosting, server, categories: code)Hosting is how you get you ASP.NET application up and running. And ASP.NET Core is just bunch of libraries host in you own process. It’s not provide a hosting – user have to take care of providing hosting process.
By Dawid on (tags: ASP.NET, core, hosting, categories: code)Some time ago Microsoft announced the Azure Functions. What it is exactly? So, Azure Functions are event driven functions which are executed on some occurrence of events but also can be used on-demand.
By Dawid on (tags: azure, c#, functions, categories: azure, code)As you may already notice ASP.NET Core is using project.json files to controls almost all aspects of the project. It contains lot of section (which I will describe bellow) with full support of intellisense. That file is also synchronized with Solution Explorer – removing referenced from file will automatically update References node in Solution Explorer. Here is the list of pro…
By Dawid on (tags: ASP.NET, core, project.json, categories: code)Most of example currently available on the internet shows how’s to start using ASP.NET Core and EF Core implemented in the same assembly. In the RC1 there was couple of tricks which we had to implement if we would like to have separate assembly with data model definition. In RC2 release it’s a little bit easier. Bellow I’ll show you how you can achieve that. This is our applica…
By Dawid on (tags: ASP.NET, context, core, ef core, categories: code)There are many situations that developer needs to known what are the content or web roots paths. One of such situations is accessing custom JSON configuration files. In the classics ASP.NET applications you was always able to use Server.MapPath() method. With that method you was able to find physical path or web root directory. Later on in RC1 there was possibility to use IAppl…
By Dawid on (tags: core, .net, path, rc2, root, categories: code)In recently released .NET Core RC 2 there is possibility to use new dotnet tool. It exposes a set of commands , such us: creating empty projects restoring packages building your project unit testing .NET Core contains much more tooling but most of them are exposed thought dotnet tool. There is also no problem with extend set of commands. It has simple extensibility model – you …
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