Here is a collection of my blog posts and articles.
If you publish a web application and make it publicly accessible, you will want to make sure only authorized users can access it, unless, of course, your application is just a trivial website. Applications orchestrated by .NET Aspire are no exception. Because .NET Aspire is a platform for building complex distributed applications, chances are that […]
A Guide To Securing .NET Aspire Apps Read More »
Having automated test coverage for our software apps is very important. Although manual tests sometimes have their place, automated tests allow us to verify the validity of our application logic much more efficiently than any manual tests would. Automated tests also allow us to check if a change in one part of the codebase hasn’t
Integration-testing .NET Aspire Apps Read More »
As well as being able to orchestrate .NET projects, Aspire can also orchestrate the so-called Aspire components. These components are special libraries that add popular packages to our distributed application, which include the following: Today, we will talk about Aspire components, why they are useful, and how to add them to our applications. But first, let
Why .NET Aspire Components Are Powerful Read More »
When we look at the Resources tab of the .NET Aspire dashboard, we find the State column in the table displayed there. This column shows the current status of each service managed by the .NET Aspire. Ideally, we want each of these services to be shown as Running with the green tick next to it, as the following screenshot demonstrates: We
How .NET Aspire Does Health Checks And Why It Matters Read More »
Today, we will talk about the process of monitoring applications orchestrated by .NET Aspire. But before we do it, let’s remind ourselves why monitoring is something we absolutely must have in our applications. Monitoring applications is crucial for several reasons: Let’s now look at the different types of monitoring available to us. Components of monitoring
Monitoring Apps Inside .NET Aspire Read More »
.NET Aspire is an orchestration technology introduced in November 2022 alongside the .NET 8 release. And since it was released, it took the .NET community by storm. This technology allows developers to easily build and debug distributed applications locally, which was traditionally hard to do. With .NET Aspire, you don’t have to install many external
The Anatomy of .NET Aspire Application Read More »
Previously, in a tutorial presented as a series of articles, we looked at how to use .NET to build an audio player that can run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. This tutorial explains how the open-source NetCoreAudio NuGet package was built. Today, we will go through an example of how to build a fully functioning
Building an audio player app with the .NET Uno Platform Read More »
We are living in the information age. Many traditional industries and jobs associated with them are on the way out. Internet and smart technologies have radically changed how we live and work. Although technology has improved our lives overall, it also made certain things much more challenging. One of the biggest of these issues is
The most important skill for 21st century Read More »
Test-driven development (TDD) is a highly popular and highly misunderstood subject. And there is no surprise as to why it’s so misunderstood. If you look at any single guide on what the canonical TDD rules are supposed to be, it would be vague and incomplete. Today, I will demonstrate to you why it is so.
Contradictions in TDD and why it’s merely a guidance and not the gospel Read More »
As the author of NetCoreAudio, a .NET library that is designed to play audio on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, I need to have all three operating systems available for testing. The simplest and cheapest way to set up multiple operating systems is to use virtual machines (VMs). My main PC is running Windows, which,
Getting audio working on Ubuntu VM on Hyper-V Read More »
