Exception Handling in ASP.NET Web API - A Guided Tour

Let's explore how ASP.NET Web Api handles and logs exceptions, from action level up to application level. Sample project included!

Explaining Async and Await in ASP.NET

Once in a while, the technical presentations [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/why-you-should-be-giving-technical-presentations/] that I conduct at my day job force me to learn something new, something I'd never had to deal with before. This happened just last week, when my coworkers voted for the topic of the next session to

Zealotry Has No Place In Software Development

I'd like you all to meet Bob. Bob is a nice guy, and a good programmer. Give him a problem, any problem, and he'll get the job done, cleanly and quickly. He's been at this company long enough to know what the business wants before they do. All-in-all, he's an

Diary of a Death March: Christian's Story

February 25th They called me back! I was starting to fear that I'd never get another job as a programmer, and yet someone offered me an position! No more unemployment for me! Sure, it's less money than my last place was paying me, but I can't be picky in these

Loading Entity Framework Related Entities with AutoMapper and Reflection

In a previous post [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/entity-framework-and-wcf-mapping-entities-to-dtos-with-automapper/] I mentioned how we would be using AutoMapper [http://automapper.org/] to create Data-Transfer Objects [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_transfer_object] out of Entity Framework entities; the DTOs would then be transmitted over a WCF service. Well, as often