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 Storage or an AWS S3 bucket. I’ve created an example 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 wanted to enable Redis caching for the stg and prd 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 or tag and the environment it should be deployed to 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 currently supporting a live application we’re loath to make structural 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 though was how to exclude specific child properties from a 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 is displayed as a comment on the PR in GitHub. 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 added as a datatype to an input or output DTO Read more…
If you’ve got a MySQL database running in Docker and you want to debug the calls being made to it you can enable logging and then export those logs to your desktop for investigation. First you need to enable logging in your MySQL database. Then if you trigger the action Read more…
When doing development work on a Mac sometimes the process won’t close down correctly and will end up locking a port which will provide an error when you try and start it up again. In order to kill a process on a specific port you first need to get its Read more…