Category: Web API

New Course Available Now: C# 10 Design Patterns

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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 »

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

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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 »

Marvin.Cache.Headers 6.0.0 Available Now

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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 »

New Release: Marvin.JsonPatch 2.2

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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 »

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

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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 »

New Course Published: Securing Microservices in ASP.NET Core

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I’m happy to announce my latest course is available now over at Pluralsight: Securing Microservices in ASP.NET Core.  It offers an in-depth look at various security patterns for microservice architectures.  Here’s what you can expect: Authentication and authorization are two very important aspects of a secure microservices architecture. In this course, Securing Microservices in ASP.NET… Read more »

Marvin.StreamExtensions v1.2 Released

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PouyaMoridian submitted a PR to Marvin.StreamExtensions recently that allows injecting JsonSerializerSettings when using the extension methods.  I figured a new release would be appropriate as I think quite a few people will find this useful.  It allows full customization of how your objects are serialized, including the option to have property names CamelCased.  If you’re… Read more »

New Course Published: Securing Blazor Client-side Applications

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I’m happy to announce my latest course is now available over at Pluralsight: Securing Blazor Client-side Applications.  As you can guess, it tackles securing your Blazor WASM app, but it contains a lot more than just that.  Here’s what you can expect: Authentication and authorization are two incredibly important aspects of a secure Blazor WebAssembly… Read more »

Virtual Session: API Security with OAuth2 and OIDC in Depth for the .NET SouthWest user group (August 20th, 2020)

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Due to Corona I’ve been giving less (in-person) sessions lately… but luckily, by now virtual session have become A Thing   I’m thus happy to announce that I’ll be giving a virtual session for the Bristol-based .NET SouthWest user group.  The session is named “API Security with OAuth2 and OpenID Connect in Depth”, and this… Read more »