Using the Polly Timeout when making a Http Request
Full source code available here. When making remote service requests the remote side will sometimes take longer than acceptable to respond. You have a few choices in handling this. 1. Put up with it,...
View ArticleUsing an mdf file database with Entity Framework Core 2 in Visual Studio 2017
Full source code available here. If you want to play around with Entity Framework it can be a little frustrating to create a complex database with a lot of sample data. Instead, you could download the...
View ArticleUsing Other Verbs with Web API
Full source code available here. You will often use the GET verb when making requests to an API. You have probably used it like this – www.example.com/person/ or www.example.com/person/1 or...
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Alter response header in Web API to return machine name
Full source code available here. I recently hit a problem where I was getting incorrect responses from a server behind a load balancer. Looking at the logs didn’t help because there was no error. It...
View ArticleSelectively Caching a HttpResponseMessage with Polly – caching series 1/3
Full source code here. When I give talks on Polly I show how to use it in a Web API application that calls another Web Api application. I give a simple example of how to use the cache policy where I...
View ArticlePassing Configuration Options Into Middleware, Services and Controllers in...
Full source code here. I recently hit a problem where I needed to reload configuration settings as they changed, fortunately this is relatively straightforward when using the IOptionsMonitor, in .NET...
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