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Migrating from .NET Framework to .NET Core

Over the course of several years, I’ve been slowly migrating a 5-year-old system built on top of .NET Framework (v4.8). In this blog series, I’m going to describe each step of the migration, as there were many, in order to get the system running entirely on .NET Core. This is series intended as a guide for Migrating from .NET Framework to .NET Core. This wasn’t a “big bag” migration, but rather a series of steps that were taking over the course of years. That’s not to say your migration will take as long. System Background In order to get a… Read More »Migrating from .NET Framework to .NET Core

Roundup #69: ASP.NET Core Urls & Ports, Tye, Orleans, and Diagnostics

After a bit of a break, the .NET Roundups are back! This week, it’s almost as if Andrew Lock was working on the exact same I was as he had two posts back to back that solved two issues I was having. Incredible timing and as always great content from Andrew. 5 ways to set the URLs for an ASP.NET Core app In this post I show 5 different ways to change which URLs your app listens on. We’ll look at each of these options in more detail below. Link: https://andrewlock.net/5-ways-to-set-the-urls-for-an-aspnetcore-app/ How to automatically choose a free port in ASP.NET… Read More »Roundup #69: ASP.NET Core Urls & Ports, Tye, Orleans, and Diagnostics

Queuing Background Jobs with Coravel

In one of my live streams on my YouTube Channel, I took a look at using Coravel to refactor some code that was sending out an email. Emailing is a good example of something that can be created as a background job that frees up your web application to return a result quicker to the client. Coravel Coravel gives you a zero-configuration queue that runs in-memory to offload long-winded tasks to the background instead of making your users wait for their HTTP request to finish! It’s pretty easy to get started to run background jobs with Coravel in your ASP.NET… Read More »Queuing Background Jobs with Coravel