This post will be my first entry into a multi-part series of post showing how I’ve built RESTful APIs using the JSON:API specification on .NET Core. I will start by creating a new .NET Core Web Api project, I am going to call this project Chinook, after the sqlite database that I will use for this project. Whenever I create a .NET Core project I like to follow the project structure outlined by Steve Smith in his Clean Architecture repository. ...
In my second post, I wanted to cover AcquireRequestState. In my four years as a developer I have encountered issues with AcquireRequestState twice. So, what in the world is AcquireRequestState. AcquireRequestState is part of the ASP.NET Life Cycle, this is an event raised by the HttpApplication, it keeps session state in sync. Though I suspect that most developers are familiar with this event for being a major performance pain in their .NET Framework application, as documented here, here, here, here and here. ...
Serilog has a neat feature that allows you to configure sub-loggers. With this feature you can essentially have log specific instances running on your application. I recently had to configure a .NET Framework application to use two different sub-loggers and while I was able find many examples online on how to configure sub-loggers through AppSettings.json, I did not find any examples on how to configure them through AppSettings.config/App.config so I wanted to document that process on this post. ...