I was following the new .NET Core 2.2 –> 3.0 upgrade document, but when I updated my unit test project files, I accidentally set the SDK to Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web because that’s what my ASP.NET Core 3.0 web project was. via GIPHY The unit tests still ran and worked… for the most part. One of them failed, … [Read more…]
With the release of .NET Core 3.0, everyone needs to start thinking about upgrading their existing .NET Core 2.2 apps right away. Not only because .NET Core 3.0 has a bunch of performance gains that you’ll undoubtedly want to take advantage of, but also because support for .NET Core 2.2 ends mid December. Microsoft’s new, … [Read more…]
Sometimes there’s a path in a service or application that you want to test where all it does is log something and return. You could check other things, but sometimes it is hard to check to see if something didn’t happen… and it would be a lot easier to know if something did happen, like … [Read more…]
SignalR is a technology that allows you to write bi-directional communication between a server and a client. This can lead to some pretty cool interactions, such as a live-updating dashboard on a website, or the ability to communicate requests to a server without building HTTP endpoints. SignalR does a lot of heavy lifting behind the … [Read more…]
Sometimes you just need some logging to do a sanity check that things are actually working the way that you’re expecting. via GIPHY Here’s how to turn logging on in ASP.NET Core 2 for SignalR: I’ve had to look this up more than twice, and its not exactly easy to find in the Microsoft docs, … [Read more…]
Last week I wrote about how to upload a file from a website using Angular and .NET Core. Writing tests for this is mostly straightforward, but there’s a few gotchas that I thought I would write down for the next time I need to do this. The front end tests are pretty trivial – you … [Read more…]
Uploading a file from a website is pretty simple, but I always have to look it up. There’s all sorts of different technologies and frameworks that work with the web, so I just thought I would write down how I got it to work so that next time I can just come back here and … [Read more…]
There are a bunch of different ways to do this, but sometimes I find myself wanting to run multiple web applications locally on different ports without fussing with configuration files, etc. And whenever I need to do this, I always have to look it up… but most of the posts out there are how to … [Read more…]
Recently my team upgraded to .NET Core 2.2. We have an API that needs to be accessed from an Angular project living in a different domain, so we had CORS enabled this way: Disclaimer: this is an intranet application – so it is only accessible inside of a corporate firewall, making it more acceptable to … [Read more…]
In the last post I talked about using and extending IActionResult to return your preferred HttpStatus code in your ASP.NET MVC controllers. But how do you write unit tests that make sure that you’re returning what you expect? Your controllers will return one of these: IActionResult There’s nothing on this interface that you can easily … [Read more…]