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Using WebSockets in ASP.NET Core
June 17, 2016 by Anuraj
C# ASP.NET ASP.NET Core WebSocket Chat
This post is to about using WebSockets in your ASP.NET Core application.WebSockets is an advanced technology that makes it possible to open an interactive communication session between the user’s browser and a server. With this API, you can send messages to a server and receive event-driven responses without having to poll the server for a reply. In ASP.NET Core Web Sockets is implemented as a middleware, so to use WebSockets in ASP.NET Core, you need to add the reference of WebSockets server package to the references section. And add WebSockets middleware to the configure method and need to handle the web socket requests.
How to host your ASP.NET Core in a Windows Service
June 11, 2016 by Anuraj
C# ASP.NET ASP.NET Core Windows Service
This post is to about hosting your ASP.NET Core application as Windows Service. This implementation is not relevent on dotnet core, since Windows service feature is only available on Windows. First you need reference of “Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting” and “Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.WindowsServices” in the project.json file.
Creating your first ASP.NET Core Web API with Swashbuckle
June 11, 2016 by Anuraj
C# ASP.NET ASP.NET Core Documentation Swashbuckle
This post is to help developers on how to create interactive interface which represent their Restful API to provide a rich discovery, documentation and playground experience to their API consumers in ASP.NET Core Web API. First you need to create an ASP.NET Core web api project. In this post I am using the default project; I didn’t modified any code. Once you created the project you need add reference of Swashbuckle. For RC2 you need to add reference of 6.0.0-beta9 version.
Unit test ASP.NET Core Applications with MSTest
June 07, 2016 by Anuraj
C# ASP.NET ASP.NET Core Unit Testing MS Test
This post is about running aspnet core unit tests with MS Test. Few days back Microsoft announced support of MS Test for ASP.NET Core RC2 applications. And MS released two nuget packages to support the development as well as tooling. Similar to XUnit, MS Test also require reference of MS Test Framework and tool to run the unit tests aka Test Runner. So in the project.json file add reference of “dotnet-test-mstest”, which the test runner and “MSTest.TestFramework” is the framework.
Using ASP.NET Core RC2 in Appveyor
June 07, 2016 by Anuraj
C# ASP.NET ASP.NET Core Appveyor Continuous Integration
This post is about using ASP.NET Core RC2 in Appveyor for Continuous Integration. Recently Microsoft released RC2 version of ASP.NET Core. But for Windows OS, there is an installer exe available.(Unlike DNX there is not commandline / powershell install options.) In this post I am downloading the binaries and extracting to the location.
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