CODE REVIEWS

Naming is Everything

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash The other day, during a code review I came across code that looked like this in a Controller’s action method. foreach (var fooRow

RAZOR VIEWS

ReSharper's Rename Refactoring and ASP.Net Core Tag Helpers

Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash For those ReShaper users out there… watch ReSharper’s rename refactoring (Ctrl+R, R) when working with ASP.NET Core’s Tag Helpers. Why?

AllReady

ASP.NET Core: User Secrets, Secret Manager and External Logins, oh my!

ASP.NET Core has a concept called user secrets [https://docs.asp.net/en/latest/security/app-secrets.html]. What are user secrets? Well, in short they’re usually some type

AllReady

ASP.NET Core: Retrieving a User's Email and Name from the Twitter External Login Provider

Photo by Miguel Á. Padriñán from Pexels TL;DR: if you’ve already set up your Twitter application to allow requesting of users emails and don’t feel like learning

AllReady

Open Source Continued: Humanitarian Toolbox and AllReady

This post is one in a series of posts I’ll be writing on contributing to the AllReady [https://github.com/HTBox/allReady] project. In my previous blog post [https://www.michaelgmccarthy.com/my-foray-into-open-source], I talked about my foray into open source development. Coming

C# 6

My Foray Into Open Source

This is my first blog post in 9 months! During my absence from blogging, I’ve managed to survive being a new dad (of a now 8- month old daughter), navigating nannies and child care as well as child-proofing our home. I am finally

FakeItEasy

I'm an author!

Photo by Debby Hudson on Unsplash I wrote a book on FakeItEasy, a unit testing mocking framework for C#. The name of the b](GHOST_URL/content/images/2015/09/

PHILADELPHIA

Why the Pope needs NServiceBus

Photo by DDP on Unsplash After the healthcare.gov fiasco where people could not sign up during the open enrollment period for their mandatory healthcare because of the site continually

disabling retries

Disabling NServiceBus Retries on Web Service Integration Endpoints (aka, "how I learned to deal with Poison Messages")

Photo by Davide Baraldi from Pexels NServiceBus retries. We can always rely on them to retry failed messages for us. We have FLR’s, SLR’s, and finally, the error

ANTI-CORRUPTION LAYER

NServiceBus Transactional Boundaries and Web Service Integrations

Photo by Ben Hershey on Unsplash Recently, my team and I were in the process of “discovering” the endpoints we needed to break out as we progressed through use cases

bus.defer

Handling File Import Processing with NServiceBus Part II: Using bus.Defer Instead of a Saga

Photo by Wesley Tingey on Unsplash In my first post on File Import Processing using NServiceBus [https://www.michaelgmccarthy.com/2015/06/12/handling-file-import-processing-with-nservicebus-sagas-aka-death-to-the-batch-job] , I used a saga based on

DOCKER

Scaling NServiceBus Sagas using the Observer Pattern

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels At NSBCon2014 [http://particular.net/nsbcon-2014] in Brooklyn, NY, Jimmy Bogard gave an excellent presentation called Scaling NServiceBus [http://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/

BATCH JOBS

Handling File Import Processing with NServiceBus Sagas (aka, "Death to the Batch Job")

I was lucky enough to be able to attend NSBCon 2014 [https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/6223-nsbcon-nyc-2014#overview] last October in Brooklyn, NY. All presentations were wonderful, but the ones I

AGGREGATE ROOT

Contributing to Implementing Domain-Driven Design (aka the "Red Book") by Vaughn Vernon

Written by Vaughn Vernon, the DDD “Red Book” picks up where Evan’s “Blue Book” left off. This is especially prevalent in how Vaughn goes about explaining the importance Bounded Context, but unlike Evan’s book, gives code and design examples illustrating the thought

DEFERRING MESSAGES

Deferring Messages in NServiceBus 4

Photo by Suzy Hazelwood from Pexels Recently, I had to figure out how to go about deferring messages from processing on an endpoint as part of a last minute business