When working with GitHub workflows it’s possible to checkout different repositories to the one that the workflows are present in. However if the source repository is private you’ll get a not found error when trying to clone it even if … Read more
I’m currently creating GitHub Action pipelines for building and testing multiple solutions within a single large monorepo. These solutions target a variety of .NET versions so in order to allow them all to run in my pipeline I need to … Read more
I’ve previously written about how to return an image from an Azure Function which deals with returning a generated image from the function, however it’s also useful to return images which might be stored elsewhere such as in Azure Blob … Read more
We’ve recently implemented Redis caching in an API which took a little bit of time to figure out. Redis caching is available through the Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Distributed package and this also supports other provides such as NCache. In our case we only … Read more
We have a build pipeline running in GitHub Actions that builds a .NET 6 web in a Docker container and then publishes it to AWS. Within this pipeline we have a manual step where we can chose the source branch … Read more
We’re currently working on a .NET backend API project that retrieves data from a MySQL database and returns it to a frontend React app. As this is a migration project we’re working with a pre-existing MySQL database which given it’s … Read more
We’re currently using Fluent Assertions to help make writing tests for our project a bit easier. This is a very handy library and certainly helps to make test conditions easier to specify and more readable. One issue we did have … Read more
The current solution I’m working on is composed of 11 seperate projects, 3 of which are test projects. As part of our CI/CD deployment pipeline we want to be able to generate a code coverage report for these projects which … Read more
If you use IHttpContextAccessor in any services then you may need to mock it for unit tests. It’s quite a complicated class but in order to mock the request URL the below code can be used.
The new datatypes of DateOnly and TimeOnly are a good addition to C# but it feels as if they were released too soon without proper integration with other features. An example of this is their integration with API controllers, when … Read more