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Contents

• DotNet
• DotNet 5
• DotNet Standard
• Dotnet Core
• DotNet CLI
• MetaPack
• Serialization
• Generic Host And Web Host
• DotNet Core Architecture
• Hosting
• Kestrel
• Middleware
• Configuration
• Options Pattern
• Grpc
• WebSockets
• SignalR
• HttpClient
• WEB API
• DotNet Core GraphQL
• DotNet Core Docker
• API Versioning
• Hosted Service
• Test Host And WebApplicationFactory
• Routing
• Dependency Injection
• Security
  • Encryption And Data Protection
  • DotNet Core Identity
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
• Logging
• Tracing
• EF Core
• Environment
• Mapping
• Benchmarking
• Others

DotNet

📝 Articles

• What is .NET? What's C# and F#? What's the .NET Ecosystem? .NET Core Explained, what can .NET build?

DotNet 5

📝 Articles

• Announcing .NET 5.0 - DevBlogs

• What's new in .NET 5 - Microsoft

• Introducing C# Source Generators - DevBlogs

• Performance Improvements in .NET 5 - DevBlogs

• The Many Flavors of .NET - Sean Killeen

DotNet Standard

📝 Articles

• .NET Standard - Microsoft

📹 Videoes

• Big Changes in .NET 5, C# 9, and Visual Studio 2019 - IAmTimCorey

DotNet Core

📝 Articles

• What's new in ASP.NET Core 2.1
• What's new in ASP.NET Core 2.2
• What's new in ASP.NET Core 3.0
• What's new in ASP.NET Core 3.1
• What's new in ASP.NET Core 5.0
• Migrate from ASP.NET Core 2.2 to 3.0
• Migrate from ASP.NET Core 3.0 to 3.1
• Migrate from ASP.NET Core 3.1 to 5.0

📹 Videoes

• Migrating to .NET Core 3 | ASP.NET Core 2.2 & 3 REST API Tutorial 16
• Upgrading to .NET Core 3.1 (Real Life Project)
• Upgrading to .NET 5.0 RC w/ C# 9.0

DotNet CLI

📝 Articles

• .NET CLI overview
• Custom templates for dotnet new

MetaPack

📝 Articles

• Microsoft.AspNetCore.App for ASP.NET Core
• Microsoft.AspNetCore.All metapackage for ASP.NET Core 2.0
• Deep-dive into .NET Core primitives, part 2: the shared framework

Serialization

📝 Articles

• Polymorphic deserialization with System.Text.Json

Generic Host And Web Host

📝 Articles

• ASP.NET Core Web Host

• .NET Generic Host in ASP.NET Core

• USING HOSTBUILDER AND THE GENERIC HOST IN .NET CORE MICROSERVICES

• Generic Host Builder in ASP .NET Core 3.1

• The ASP.NET Core Generic Host: namespace clashes and extension methods

• Avoiding Startup service injection in ASP.NET Core 3

• IHostingEnvironment vs IHostEnvironment - obsolete types in .NET Core 3.0

• .NET Generic Host

• Understanding .NET Generic Host Model

• Exploring the new project file, Program.cs, and the generic host

• Introducing IHostLifetime and untangling the Generic Host startup interactions

• Exploring Program.cs, Startup.cs and CreateDefaultBuilder in ASP.NET Core 2 preview 1

• WebHostBuilder

• Customizing ASP.​NET Core Part 11: WebHostBuilder

🔖 Samples

• https://github.com/andrewlock/blog-examples/tree/master/updating-test-host-to-3-0

DotNet Core Architecture

📝 Articles

• ASP.NET CORE ANATOMY – HOW DOES USESTARTUP WORK?

• ASP.NET CORE ANATOMY (PART 2) – ADDMVC

• ASP.NET CORE ANATOMY (PART 3) – USEMVC

• ASP.NET CORE ANATOMY (PART 4) – INVOKING THE MVC MIDDLEWARE

• Deep-dive into .NET Core primitives: deps.json, runtimeconfig.json, and dll's

• Deep-dive into .NET Core primitives, part 2: the shared framework

• Deep-dive into .NET Core primitives, part 3: runtimeconfig.json in depth

📹 Videoes

• ASP.NET Community Standup - ASP.NET Core Architecture with David Fowler
• Munich .NET Meetup: Anatomy of ASP.NET Core Requests by Steve Gordon

Hosting

📝 Articles

• 5 ways to set the URLs for an ASP.NET Core app

• Adding host filtering to Kestrel in ASP.NET Core

• ASP. NET Core - Hosting

• Customizing ASP.NET Core Part 12: Hosting

• ASP.NET Core Hosting on IIS on Windows

Kestrel

📝 Articles

• Kestrel web server implementation in ASP.NET Core

• .NET Core 3.0 AllowSynchronousIO Workaround

📹 Videoes

• Custom HTTPS Dev Environment using .NET Core, Kestrel & certificates

Middleware

📝 Articles

• DEEP DIVE: HOW IS THE ASP.NET CORE MIDDLEWARE PIPELINE BUILT?

• ASP.NET Core Middleware

• Understanding your middleware pipeline with the Middleware Analysis package

• Exploring IStartupFilter in ASP.NET Core

• Creating an endpoint from multiple middleware in ASP.NET Core 3.x

• Converting a terminal middleware to endpoint routing in ASP.NET Core 3.0

• Middlewares

• Customizing ASP.​NET Core Part 06: Middlewares

Configuration

📝 Articles

• Configure ASP.NET Core MVC

• Configuration in ASP.NET Core

• Configuration providers in .NET

• ASP. NET Core - Customize Configuration

• Creating a custom ConfigurationProvider in ASP.NET Core to parse YAML

• Customizing ASP.​NET Core Part 02: Configuration

• How to use configuration with C# 9 top-level programs

📦 Libraries

• NetEscapades.Configuration

🔖 Samples

• https://github.com/WolfgangOfner/MVC-Core-Configure

Options Pattern

📝 Articles

• Options pattern in ASP.NET Core

• How to use the IOptions pattern for configuration in ASP.NET Core RC2

• Access services inside ConfigureServices using IConfigureOptions in ASP.NET Core

• ASP.NET Core IOptions Configuration

Grpc

📝 Articles

• Introduction to gRPC on .NET
• gRPC services with C#
• Create gRPC services and methods
• Call gRPC services with the .NET client
• gRPC client factory integration in .NET Core
• gRPC and C# 8 Async stream
• gRPC and C# 8 Async stream cancellation
• Code-first gRPC services and clients with .NET
• Create JSON Web APIs from gRPC

📹 Videoes

• Bidirectional Streaming | gRPC in .NET 5
• Client Streaming | gRPC in .NET 5
• gRPC Server & Unary Calls | gRPC in .NET 5
• Server Streaming | gRPC in .NET 5

WebSockets

📝 Articles

• Understanding WebSockets with ASP.NET Core
• Using Web Sockets with ASP.NET Core
• WebSockets support in ASP.NET Core

SignalR

📝 Articles

• Use streaming in ASP.NET Core SignalR
• Real-time Web Applications with SignalR in ASP.NET Core 3.1

📹 Videoes

• Asp.Net Core WebSockets Vs SignalR. Which should you use?

HttpClient

📝 Articles

• SENDING AND RECEIVING JSON USING HTTPCLIENT WITH SYSTEM.NET.HTTP.JSON
• .NET 5: Exploring System.Net.Http.Json namespace
• Introducing Strongly Typed HTTP Request Headers for ASP.NET Core

WEB API

📝 Articles

• ASP.NET Core 5 Route to Code: Taking advantage of Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http json extensions
• Nano services with ASP.NET Core or how to build a light API
• Basic JSON APIs with Route-to-code in ASP.NET Core
• Model Binding - ASP.NET Core Demystified
• Beautiful and compact Web APIs with C# 9, .NET 5.0 and ASP.NET Core
• Building microservices with ASP.NET Core (without MVC)
• Finally the ASP.NET 5 Web API Blog Series!
• ASP.NET Core in .NET 5 – pass parameters to actions
• Model Binding in ASP.NET Core
• Custom Model Binding in ASP.NET Core
• Asp.Net Core Model Binding: Controlling The Binding Source
• Use ASP.NET Core route-to-code for simple JSON APIs
• Using action results and content negotiation with "route-to-code" APIs
• Creating Discoverable HTTP APIs with ASP.NET Core 5 Web API

📹 Videoes

• ASP.NET Core Series: Route to Code
• NET Core 3.1 MVC REST API - Full Course

🔖 Samples

• https://github.com/featherhttp/framework
• https://github.com/featherhttp/tutorial
• https://github.com/filipw/net50-webapi-samples
• https://github.com/ardalis/ApiEndpoints

DotNet Core GraphQL

📝 Articles

📹 Videoes

• GraphQL API with .NET 5 and Hot Chocolate

DotNet Core Docker

📝 Articles

📹 Videoes

• Deploy a .NET Core API with Docker (Step-by-Step)

API Versioning

📝 Articles

• Web API Versioning in ASP.NET Core – Detailed Guide

📹 Videoes

• Elegant API Versioning in ASP.NET Core (Web API)

Hosted Service

📝 Articles

• Background tasks with hosted services in ASP.NET Core

• IMPLEMENTING IHOSTEDSERVICE IN ASP.NET CORE 2.0

• ASP. NET Core - IHostedService and BackgroundService

• Customizing ASP.​NET Core Part 05: HostedServices

Test Host And WebApplicationFactory

📝 Articles

• Converting integration tests to .NET Core 3.0

• Using custom startup class with ASP.NET Core integration tests

• Using custom appsettings.json with ASP.NET Core integration tests

Routing

Dependency Injection

📝 Articles

• .NET Core Dependency Injection: Everything You Ought To Know

• Having Fun with Microsoft IoC Container for .NET Core

• ASP. NET Core - Dependency-injection

• Customizing ASP.​NET Core Part 03: Dependency Injection

• ASP.NET CORE DEPENDENCY INJECTION – REGISTERING MULTIPLE IMPLEMENTATIONS OF AN INTERFACE

• ASP.NET CORE DEPENDENCY INJECTION – HOW TO REGISTER GENERIC TYPES

• ASP.NET CORE DEPENDENCY INJECTION – REGISTERING IMPLEMENTATIONS USING DELEGATES

• Choosing a ServiceLifetime

• ASP.NET Core and the Strategy Pattern

• 6 Ways To Implement The Strategy Pattern In C# (Basic To Advanced)

• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core 3.1

Security

Encryption And Data Protection

📝 Articles

• Symmetric and Asymmetric Encryption in .NET Core
• ENCRYPTING TEXTS FOR AN IDENTITY IN ASP.NET CORE RAZOR PAGES USING AES AND RSA
• USING DIGITAL SIGNATURES TO CHECK INTEGRITY OF CIPHER TEXTS IN ASP.NET CORE RAZOR PAGES
• Configure ASP.NET Core Data Protection
• An introduction to the Data Protection system in ASP.NET Core

DotNet Core Identity

📝 Articles

• ASP.NET Core Identity – Getting Started
• Overview of ASP.NET Core authentication
• Introduction to Identity on ASP.NET Core
• Identity model customization in ASP.NET Core
• ASP NET Core Identity Tutorial
• Login and Registration using Identity in ASP.NET Core 3.1

Authentication

📝 Articles

• Introduction to Authentication with ASP.NET Core
• Exploring the cookie authentication middleware in ASP.NET Core
• Getting started with Securing APIs using JWT Bearer Authentication - Hands on
• JWT Authentication In ASP.NET Core
• Login Web Application using Cookie Authentication in ASP NET Core

📹 Videoes

• ASP.NET Core 3 - Authentication - Ep.1 Basics (Claims/ClaimsIdentity/ClaimsPrincipal/Authorization)
• ASP.NET Core 3 - Authentication - Ep.2 Identity Authentication
• Secure a .NET Core API with Bearer Authentication

Authorization

📝 Articles

• Create an ASP.NET Core web app with user data protected by authorization
• ASP.NET Core Identity Roles based Authorization
• Role-based authorization in ASP.NET Core
• Policy-based authorization in ASP.NET Core
• Claims-based authorization in ASP.NET Core
• Resource-based authorization in ASP.NET Core
• ASP.NET Core - Claims Based Authentication: Claims vs Identities vs Principals
• Role-based and Claims-based Authorization in ASP.NET Core using Policies - Hands on
• Implementing Policy-Based Authorization in ASP.NET Core - Getting Started
• Policy-based Authorization in ASP.NET Core – A Deep Dive
• ASP.NET Core Identity Claims based Authorization

📹 Videoes

• ASP.NET Core 3 - Authentication - Ep.3 Authorization (All about Policies and Claims)

Logging

📝 Articles

• TRACING IO IN .NET CORE

Tracing

📝 Articles

• A Step by Step Guide to Logging in ASP.NET Core 5

EF Core

📝 Articles

• Announcing the Release of EF Core 5.0
• Entity Framework Core 5 free resources
• What's New in EF Core 5.0
• Calling Stored Procedures with the Entity Framework in .NET 5
• EF Core 5: Building on the Foundation
• Entity Framework Core 5 Resources I’ve Created Recently
• Entity Framework Core 5 vs SQLBulkCopy
• Entity Framework Core health check
• Entity Framework Core 3.0: A Foundation for the Future
• Useful SQL statements when writing EF Core 5 migrations
• Adding Entity Framework Core 5 migrations to .NET 5 project
• Merging migrations in Entity Framework Core 5
• Executing raw SQL with Entity Framework Core 5
• PrimeHotel – adding Entity Framework Core 5 in .NET
• Working with views in Entity Framework Core 5
• Adding an Entity Framework Core 5 to an existing database
• How to configure relationships in Entity Framework Core 5
• Entity Framework Core – is it fast?
• Bulk copy with Entity Framework Core 5
• Unit tests in Entity Framework Core 5
• How not to pass parameters in Entity Framework Core 5
• Select data with a stored procedure with Entity Framework Core 5
• How to call stored procedures with OUTPUT parameters with FromSqlRaw in EF Core
• Query non-table classes using ad-hoc (raw) SQL with EF Core 3.1
• Execute a stored procedure with Entity Framework Core 5
• Mapping and using SQL Server stored procedures with EF Core Power Tools
• Avoiding SQL Server plan cache pollution with EF Core 3 and Enumerable.Contains
• How to pass a dynamic/variable list of values as SqlParameters with FromSqlRaw in EF Core
• How to call stored procedures with OUTPUT parameters with FromSqlRaw in EF Core
• EF Core Power Tools database reverse engineering: renaming of entities and properties

📦 Libraries

• linq2db.EntityFrameworkCore

Bring power of Linq To DB to Entity Framework Core projects

• EFCorePowerTools

reverse engineering, migrations and model visualization for EF Core

Environment

📝 Articles

• How to set the hosting environment in ASP.NET Core
• Configuring multiple ASP.NET Core hosting environment

Mapping

📝 Articles

Implement Automapper in ASP.NET Core 3.1 – Ultimate Guide

📦 Libraries

• Mapster

A fast, fun and stimulating object to object Mapper.

📹 Videoes

• Mapster, the best .NET mapper that you are (probably) not using

• Domain to Contract mapping with Automapper | ASP.NET Core 5 REST API Tutorial 20

Benchmarking

📦 Libraries

• BenchmarkDotNet

Powerful .NET library for benchmarking

📹 Videoes

• Benchmarking C# code using BenchmarkDotNet

• Analyzing performance with BenchmarkDotNet - ASP.NET Core: From 0 to overkill

Others

📝 Articles

• Building a social media platform without going bankrupt Part I–Laying the numbers
• Building a social media platform without going bankrupt Part II–Accepting posts
• Building a social media platform without going bankrupt Part III–Reading posts
• Building a social media platform without going bankrupt Part IV–Caching and distribution
• Building a social media platform without going bankrupt Part V–Handling the timeline
• Building a social media platform without going bankrupt Part VI–Dealing with edits and deletions
• Building a social media platform without going bankrupt Part VII–Counting views, replies and likes
• Building a social media platform without going bankrupt Part VIII–Tagging and searching
• Building a social media platform without going bankrupt Part IX–Dealing with the past