By either exposing an endpoint that others will invoke into your system or making an HttpClient call to a web service outside your system, you need to take into account the nature of RPC-style communication and the Fallacies of Distributed Computing. Although the .NET framework has given us async/await,…
Photo by Eric Rothermel on Unsplash This is part of an ongoing series of posts revolving around Humanitarian Toolbox’s allReady open source project. Part of working on this open source project is getting exposure to ASP.NET Core, EF Core and a host of other open-source frameworks as well…
This is the first post in a series on Abstracting External Login Providers with Autofac and the Factory Design Pattern Part 1: Keeping it Local in the Action Method Part 2: Factory to the Rescue Part 3: Twitter Provider Part 4: Autofac and Factory Introduction I’ve been implementing external…
ASP.NET Core has a concept called user secrets. What are user secrets? Well, in short they’re usually some type of value, whether is be an AppId or AppSecret for external logins, username/passwords/resource url’s for integrations, connection strings for databases (this list goes on and one)…
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 the intricacies of building OAuth authorization headers from scratch in C#, check out this blog post which shows you a…
This post is one in a series of posts I’ll be writing on contributing to the AllReady project. In my previous blog post, I talked about my foray into open source development. Coming from a purely TFS background with no knowledge of Git or GitHub, I was apprehensive at…