For the next part of my ASP.NET Core Demystified series, we're sticking with MVC and explaining how the model binding system works. As with all my Demystified series posts, there's a sample project over on GitHub which contains the sample code used here. Check it out! What is Model Binding? Model Binding is the process by which ASP.NET Core MVC takes an HTTP request and "binds" pieces of that request, as well as other data sources,... Read more >
ASP.NET Core MVC has introduced quite a few concepts that new (or new-to-ASP.NET) web developers might have some difficulty getting caught up with. My ASP.NET Core Demystified series is designed to help these developers get started building their own custom, full-fledged, working ASP.NET Core applications. In this part of the series, we'll take a look at the concept of Routing and how we can use it to match URLs with actions. As always with my tutorials,... Read more >
My group has been doing a lot of REST API consumption lately, and our favorite tool to use for that is the terrific RestSharp library. Our latest project is very large, and uses lots of different APIs, and so we needed a way to create many different client classes that could consume many different APIs but still use common features like caching and error logging. And so, I present to you, the Ultimate RestSharp Client! In this post, we'll build... Read more >
We're working on a large project which consumes a custom-build API, and one of the requirements of this project is that if the API goes down, certain sections of the website still need to be able to function. The reason for this is that our app consumes a lot of APIs and services, and occasionally a non-critical one will go down (for maintenance, bugs, whatever) and we don't want our site to crash as well, since this was a problem... Read more >
NOTE: This is the final part of a three-part series demonstrating how we might model the classic game Battleship as a C# program. Part 1 is over here. You might want to use the sample project over on GitHub to follow along with this post. Also, check out my other posts in the Modeling Practice series! With all the components and setup taken care of in the previous part of this series, it's now time to finish our system and... Read more >
NOTE: This is Part 2 of a three-part series demonstrating how we might model the classic game Battleship as a C# program. Part 1 is over here. You might want to use the sample project over on GitHub to follow along with this post. Also, check out my other posts in the Modeling Practice series! In the first part of this series we discussed how to play a game of Battleship and what kinds of components and strategies we would... Read more >
