Hallo Mensen :D Let’s talk OData, shall we? In the last few years my work revolved a lot around REST APIs. I think most of us will agree that REST APIs are a really good way of obtaining data from a server without caring too much about details on how…

Hallo Mensen :) I know I’ve been away from my blog for a long time and I’ll not try to make an excuse for this, but I want to make it clear that I intend to start writing again some time this quarter! Today I just wanted to share with…

If we have learned anything over the last couple of decades, it is that programming is a craft more than it is a science. Originally published at The Azure Coder.

Let’s move on with our series about the Core MVC Pipeline. What is the next step? Last time we learned how to point a request to a specific Router, and what if we need to handle a route in a custom way? Let’s create our custom Route Handler. As we…

I guess most of the professionals working on the software industry have already heard the following quote about optimization. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. This quote was popularized by Donald E. Knuth on his paper Structured Programming with go to statements, what most of us ignore is…

And here is the second part of the article Yesterday I wrote part one of my two-part series on why we should favor the technique of composition over inheritance. I began by looking at how a purely inheritance-based model quickly becomes unworkable as the properties and methods of base classes…

What if you want to add some custom logic to the routing system? There are two main components where we can inject our code to bend some rules on the framework. The first one is the IRouter. In our flow the IRouter is represented by the “Matching to Route Entry”…

Let’s play with the Middleware Pipeline :) Do you guys remember the flow that I showed you in the first post? No? Let’s revisit it: So, what do we want to do here is to start from the beginning and in this post we are going to focus on the…

Hallo Iedereen :) I decided to start a series of posts about custom components for the ASP.NET Core MVC Pipeline. Most of you should know by now that ASP.NET Core was mostly redesigned to be more modular, extensible and to deal with the ‘platform agnostic’ nature of the new framework…