I’m happy to announce that my latest course, Testing with EF Core, is now available over at Pluralsight. If you’re interested in learning how EF Core can help with unit testing your application, check it out! Here’s some additional information on what you can expect: In this course, Testing with EF Core, you will learn… Read more »
I’m happy to announce that I’ll again be speaking at Techorama NL (Space Edition) on October 1st, 2019. This time I’ll deliver a really in-depth session on securing APIs. Here’s what you can expect: You probably know how to secure your API with access tokens, but did you know you can use reference tokens to… Read more »
Quick heads-up that a new version of Marvin.JsonPatch is available. No big changes this time, just made sure the code is fully CLS compliant so it can be used in other .NET languages than C# as well. This was a feature request, as some companies only allow CLS compliant code. You can find the new… Read more »
Over the weekend my latest course was published. This one tackles 2 somewhat underused features of OpenAPI: generating code from an OpenAPI specification and learning how it can help with generating API tests. Here’s what you can expect: Testing an API improves its reliability. Generating client-side code helps with getting started fast when building a… Read more »
On Friday April 12th (2019) I’m delivering a session on Async Best Practices in ASP.NET Core for Team It Up in ‘s Hertogenbosch (The Netherlands). Doors open at 5pm, food and drinks are included, and the session is free to attend. Interested? You can sign up here. Here’s what the session will cover: Did you… Read more »
If you’ve been following my courses at Pluralsight you know I’m mostly focused on APIs and security. Up until now, I never really touched upon documenting such an API. Well, today I’m happy to announce that my new course is a deep dive into documenting an ASP.NET Core API with OpenAPI (Swagger) – and it’s… Read more »
I just pushed a new release of Marvin.Cache.Headers to NuGet. This feature release adds a new extension point (via ILastModifiedInjector) that allows injecting the LastModified date for resources for which you explicitly know that date. By default the middleware assumes the LastModified date is the date at which the request first hits the middleware. In… Read more »
Part of the Techorama 2019 – Space Edition agenda has been released, and I’m on it Techorama is Belgium’s biggest IT conference, with about 1700 expected attendees and over 130 sessions. I’ll deliver a (completely new!) session on using HttpClient in .NET Core. Some info: Applications, ranging from ASP.NET Core web apps over mobile Xamarin… Read more »
I created quite a few courses on building APIs with ASP.NET Core in the past. One of the questions that often pops up is “ok, well, now how do I consume such an API?” If you’re wondering about that as well, my new course is for you It’s an in-depth look at using HttpClient… Read more »
I just released a new NuGet package, Marvin.StreamExtensions. It contains a set of helper extension methods (on Stream) for working with streams which I find particularly useful for interacting with an API through HttpClient. Working with streams when interacting with an API has the advantage of lowering your memory footprint and potentially improves performance as… Read more »
