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ASP.NET 5 Entry Point Overview
The new ASP.NET 5 framework makes use of powerful command line tools for targeting various .NET framework versions (dnvm), restoring and building packages (dnu), and for executing code (dnx). There is...
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ASP.NET 5 Scoped Dependencies
ASP.NET 5 provides a super powerful way for managing code dependencies: dependency injection built right into the framework. Rather than having to construct dependencies throughout my code base (for...
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Fast ASP.NET 5 Integration Testing with xUnit
In a previous post I showed how I setup some integration tests for a simple ASP.NET 5 Web API project by making use of the TestServer class from the Microsoft.AspNet.TestHost namespace. This allowed me...
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How To Unit Test ASP.NET 5 MVC 6 ModelState
A common pattern in ASP.NET 5 (MVC 6) applications is to make use of validation attributes from the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations namespace in order to ensure incoming requests are valid. For...
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Logging ASP.NET 5 Requests using Middleware
Troubleshooting web application issues can be a tricky problem. In many cases, the app works as expected during development and testing, but exhibits some unexpected behavior out in the wild. The main...
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Dependency Scanning in ASP.NET 5
One of the coolest new features of ASP.NET 5 is dependency injection baked right into the framework as a first class citizen. Dependency injection allows us to create reusable components and services...
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Dependency Scanning in ASP.NET 5 – Part 2
In my previous post on dependency scanning in ASP.NET 5, I showed how I put together a few pieces of code to have ASP.NET 5 scan my project for dependencies that were marked with a custom annotation...
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Moq on .NET Core
Hold the phone: up until recently, I was under the impression that Moq – the most popular .NET mocking framework – was not supported on .NET Core (and thereby, ASP.NET Core). Before I get to my...
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ASP.NET Core: Custom Service Based on Request
Recently a .NET Liberty reader asked me an interesting question: is it possible to control the creation of a dependency based on the incoming request? In particular, he wanted to provide a different...
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ASP.NET Core: Factory Pattern Dependency Injection
In my last post, I talked about an approach for creating custom dependencies based on incoming requests. This allowed me to inspect the incoming request before supplying a dependency into the ASP.NET...
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