The mediator pattern is a behavioral design pattern that helps to reduce chaotic dependencies between objects. The main goal is to disallow direct communication between the objects and instead forc...

CQRS stands for Command Query Responsibility Segregation and is used to use different models for read and for write operations. In this post, I will explain how I implemented CQRS in my microservic...

Swagger is an open-source toolset that can be easily integrated into your solution and helps you to document and test your APIs. It is so simple that even non-technical people can use it. In my la...

In my last post, I talked about the theory of a microservice. Today it is going to be more practical. I will create two microservices using ASP .NET Core 3.1. Over the next posts., I will extend th...

Many developers have heard about microservices and how it is the next big thing. However, for many developers I have talked to, microservices is just another buzzword like DevOps. I have been worki...

Microsoft released with .NET Core 3.0 the next major version of .NET Core which brings improvements to the deployment, .NET Core WPF and WinForms applications and much more. Today, I want to showca...

Together with .NET Core 3.0, Microsoft released C# 8.0. Today, I want to take a look at the new features of C# 8.0 using .NET Core 3.0. To follow along with the demo you need Visual Studio 2019 an...

In my last post, I showed how to create a build pipeline for your .net and .NET Core project. Today, I want to use one of those pipelines to verify that new pull requests didn’t break my solution a...

Automated build processes should be a no-brainer nowadays but unfortunately, I still come across quite many projects which do their builds manually. In today’s post, I want to give an introduction ...

ASP.NET core has seen rapid development in the last years. Additionally, there were some breaking changes since version 1, for example, the project.json file got removed. Unfortunately, the documen...