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FEB
Microsoft MVP for Azure
ASP.NET
10
MAY
ASP.NET Core Unit Test: How to Mock HttpClient.GetStringAsync()
In ASP.NET Core unit tests, if you want to mock HttpClient.GetStringAsync(), here's the trick. Problem Given the following code var html = await _httpClient.GetStringAsync(sourceUrl); When I tried to mock HttpClient.GetStringAsync() like this var httpClientMock = new Mock<HttpClient>(); httpClientMock .Setup(p => p.GetStringAsync(It.IsAny<string>())) .Returns(Task.FromResult("...")); Moq …
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APR
ASP.NET Core Unit Test: How to Mock HttpContext.Features.Get()
In ASP.NET Core unit tests, if you want to mock HttpContext.Features.Get<SomeType>(), here's the trick. Problem I have my Error page code that will get exception detail infomation, to do that, I use HttpContext.Features.Get<IExceptionHandlerPathFeature>(). public void OnGet() { var requestId = Activity.Current?.Id ?? HttpContext.TraceIdentifier; var exceptionFeature = HttpContext.Features. …
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APR
ASP.NET Core Unit Test: How to Mock Url.Page()
Problem In ASP.NET Core, when you use extension methods on UrlHelperExtensions class, it would be difficult to write Mock in unit test. Because Moq doesn't support mocking extension methods. For example, the following code that I use in my blog is using Url.Page() method: var callbackUrl = Url.Page("/Index", null, null, Request.Scheme); But in my unit test, mocking like this will throw …
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FEB
ASP.NET Core 5.0 Throughput Test in Kestrel, IIS, Nginx and Caddy
Starting from version 2.2, ASP.NET Core allow you to use the InProcess mode to improve performance under IIS. Rick Strahl has a detailed article on this. Three years have passed, and now ASP.NET Core has reached version 5.0, how the performance diffs between servers? Let's take a look together. Rick's Test Result In the original article, Rick Strahl tested the performance of ASP.NET Core 2.2 in …
15
JUN
IP Rate Limit for ASP.NET Core
In websites or API applications, we often want to block high-frequency requests in a short period of time for an IP to prevent boring people or malicious attacks. In ASP.NET Core, limiting the request rate of IP is now super easy, let's see. AspNetCoreRateLimit There's already a nice library for limiting request rate, called AspNetCoreRateLimit. GitHub: https://github.com/stefanprodan/ …
06
MAR
Restart an ASP.NET Core Application Programmatically
We developers won't have access to servers all the time, and without management capabilities, it will be difficut to restart a web application. However, in ASP.NET Core, there is a way for us to programmatically restart our application without requring management capabilities from server admins. IApplicationLifetime There is a IApplicationLifetime interface in ASP.NET Core which can handle events …
04
JAN
Auto Refresh Settings Changes in ASP.NET Core Runtime
In ASP.NET Core, if you modify the settings in appsettings.json, you will have to restart the site to take effect. Is there a way to refresh and apply it automatically after you modify the settings? Background Let's take a look at a website created by ASP.NET Core default templates. It includes two settings files: appsettings.json appsettings.Development.json The former one is used in production …
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DEC
Dependency Injection with Multiple Implementations in ASP.NET Core
The built-in Dependency Injection (DI) in ASP.NET Core is very useful, but how do you deal with an interface has multiple implementations? Can the runtime choose one of these implementations based on configuration? Is there a way to get rid of reflection? Let me show you how to dynamically select a specific implementation of an interface at run time according to the configuration file without …
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DEC