ASP.NET Core - Fanie Reynders

ASP.NET Core

A collection of 13 posts

Move ASP.NET Core to Azure Functions in 4 steps

Don't get me wrong, ASP.NET Core is awesome. I even wrote a book on it, and one should be using it for building any kind of cloud-first web applications. Azure Functions, on the other hand; is a fairly new offering from Microsoft Azure, and is focussing more

My first book: Modern API Design with ASP.NET Core 2

Another item off my bucket list: My very first book, called Modern API Design with ASP.NET Core 2, has officially gone out to the publishers, and I'm reminiscing about the past three or so months of writing. The book is available right now for pre-order at Amazon.

Elegant WhatsApp integration with .NET Core

It's quite annoying that WhatsApp, one of the most popular messaging platforms, does not (yet) provide a consumer API. Although they might have valid reasons for not exposing some kind of public API, it forces the invention of other creative ways to automate WhatsApp messages. Disclaimer: By posting

A dead simple HATEOAS provider for ASP.NET Core

While doing some research on Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State (HATEOAS), I came across some great HATEOAS providers for ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Core MVC, but they didn't quite fit my need, so I created my own one. Grab the source code from

ASP.NET Core Middleware: A Layered system

The ASP.NET Core framework is built from the ground up with extensibility in mind, having Middleware as the fundamental core to its architecture. From a REST perspective, Middleware is an implementation of the Layered System, which is one of the constraints for REST-fulness. This post is part of a

Use IServer from ASP.NET Core to create your own web server

So here's the thing, although I'm not an expert in creating HTTP servers, I thought it would be a good idea to show how easy it can be to implement your own one, using the IServer interface from ASP.NET Core. Say hello to the AwesomeServer

Servers in ASP.NET Core

As mentioned in a previous post, REST requires the implementation of a specific set of constraints. The Client-Server constraint is probably the most foundational and enforces a separation between the client and the server. This post is part of a series on Implementing REST in ASP.NET Core Some of

Implementing REST in ASP.NET Core

The past week was hectic busy: Apart from being sick, keeping an eye on the little one and daily work; I gave three talks on ASP.NET Core in five days - very exciting. The basic takeaway of the talk was to highlight that REST is a style of architecture

ASP.NET Core & Xamarin Workshop at Dutch.NET

Just last night my good friend & newly awarded MVP Gerald Versluis and I gave an end-to-end workshop on ASP.NET Core and Xamarin at our Dutch.NET meetup, where we built a native Pokémon app complete with a secure back-end API in just over 2 hours. On the back-end

Stubbr: A simple request stub provider for ASP.NET Core

Building back-end services sometimes require stubbing of stuff. Stubbr is middleware for ASP.NET Core that provide stubs from a given pre-defined request endpoints configuration. Stubs can be sourced from local disk or a remote location. The stub configuration system is built on top of ASP.NET Core's

A quick demo of Azure Service Fabric with ASP.NET Core

In this episode we take a quick look at Azure Service Fabric, a new platform for building micro-services on Azure and also see how one could use ASP.NET Core 1.0 to easily create micro-services for this powerful platform. The demo consists of a simple back-end API serving up

MVC in ASP.NET Core: The new kid on the block

For the past year I've been organizing a local developer user group called Fixxup. Last week was the first event of 2016 and I talked about MVC in ASP.NET Core, a brand new framework for the next generation of the .NET Platform, and show how you can

Setting up CI for ASP.NET Core Web Apps from VS Team Services to Azure

It's a fact: Humans suck at routine jobs, but machines thrive at it. This led me to try and automate everything as far as possible. Although Continuous Integration isn't a new term, getting it to play nice with the latest & greatest technologies like ASP.NET