Kevin Dockx / Ice Cream

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Two New Unit Testing Courses Available Now!

I’m happy to announce that over the weekend not one but two new courses went live!  Unit Testing an ASP.NET Core 6 MVC Web Application and Unit Testing an ASP.NET Core 6 Web API.  Here’s what you can expect (description of the first course): Unit testing improves the reliability of your application. In this course,… Read more »

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New Course Available Now: C# 10 Design Patterns

My latest Pluralsight course, C# 10 Design Patterns, is available now.  Here’s what you can expect: Every code base can be improved. In this course, C# 10 Design Patterns, you’ll learn what design patterns are. First, you’ll learn how to vastly improve your code base by applying 23 different design patterns. Next, you’ll discover the… Read more »

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ASP.NET Core 6 Web API Fundamentals: Course Available Now

I’m very happy to announce that my latest Pluralsight course, ASP.NET Core 6 Web API Fundamentals, is available now!  Wondering what’s in there? ASP.NET Core 6 is a great platform for building APIs with. In this course, ASP.NET Core 6 Web API Fundamentals, you’ll learn how to build an API with ASP.NET Core 6 that… Read more »

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Marvin.Cache.Headers 6.0.0 Available Now

I just released a new version of Marvin.Cache.Headers.  You can find it on NuGet.  For those of you who don’t know what that is: Marvin.Cache.Headers is ASP.NET Core middleware that adds HttpCache headers to responses (Cache-Control, Expires, ETag, Last-Modified), and implements cache expiration & validation models. It can be used to ensure caches correctly cache… Read more »

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New Release: Marvin.JsonPatch 2.2

This is a post I wasn’t expecting to write   Marvin.JsonPatch, my library to add support for JsonPatch to .NET, just got a new release.  It’s a small change a few people asked for: multitarget support (including netstandard2.0).  As you may or may not know, Marvin.JsonPatch was originally built in 2014 (I’m getting old…), targeting… Read more »

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New Course Published: Using Reflection in a C# Application: Best Practices

My latest Pluralsight course, Using Reflection in a C# Application: Best Practices, is available now.  Here’s what you can expect: Using reflection does not have to be difficult. In this course, Using Reflection in a C# Application: Best Practices, you’ll learn how to use reflection in C#. First, you’ll explore which use cases reflection can… Read more »

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My Pluralsight Courses

This course will teach you how to improve code base by using tested and proven object-oriented design patterns.

  • Advanced

  • March 4th, 2022

In this course, you’ll learn how to build an API with ASP.NET Core that connects to a database via Entity Framework Core from scratch.

  • Beginner

  • February 16th, 2022

This course will teach you how to integrate with an OData API from .NET and JavaScript.

  • Beginner

  • June 25th, 2021

This course will teach you how to secure your ASP.NET Core microservices using a variety of best practice patterns for authentication and authorization.

  • Advanced

  • November 30th, 2020

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