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Supercharge Your ASP.NET Core Web API: A Beginner's Guide to Bombardier Benchmarking
February 29, 2024 by Anuraj
AspNetCore
Making sure your ASP.NET Core Web API runs like a well-oiled machine is crucial for a smooth user experience. Enter Bombardier, a user-friendly tool designed specifically to test and optimize the performance of your web API. In this guide, we’ll explore how Bombardier can be your ally in ensuring your web API stands up to the demands of real-world usage.
Importance of Cancellation tokens in ASP.NET Core and EF Core
February 20, 2024 by Anuraj
AspNetCore EFCore SqlServer
In this blog post, we’ll explore into why cancellation tokens are indispensable in the context of ASP.NET Core and EF Core, and how they contribute to the overall performance and user experience of our applications.
Building Reliable ASP.NET Core Applications: Handling SQL Server Connection Retries
January 31, 2024 by Anuraj
AspNetCore SqlServer
In this blog post, we’ll explore the intricacies of ASP.NET Core EF Core and delve into effective strategies for handling connection retries when dealing with SQL Server databases. By implementing retry mechanisms, we can enhance the robustness of our applications and ensure seamless interactions with SQL Server databases.
ASP.NET Core Logging with Serilog and SQL Server
January 01, 2024 by Anuraj
AspNetCore Logging Serilog
Serilog stands out as an excellent third-party library for implementing structured logging in ASP.NET Core applications. The adoption of structured logging is crucial for generating logs that are both easily readable and filterable. Opting for SQL Server as a log destination provides the advantage of harnessing SQL querying capabilities for efficient log filtering. This becomes particularly beneficial when our application is already integrated with SQL Server.
How to use identity to secure a Web API backend for single page apps
December 19, 2023 by Anuraj
AspNetCore Security Identity
This post is about how to use Identity to secure a Web API backend for SPAs such as Angular, React, and Vue apps. Unlike ASP.NET Core MVC, Web API projects doesn’t support the --auth Individual option while creating the Web API project from dotnet SDK. We have to manually add the nuget package references. So first we need to create a web api project, we can do that using the following command - ` dotnet new webapi –name Weatherforecast.Api –output Weatherforecast`. Next we need to add reference of different NuGet packages. I am using Sql Server as the backend.
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