Recently, the AI hype is shocking the whole software industry. Every software engineer is talking about the possibility of being replaced by AI. The introduction of Devin, proclaimed first AI software engineer, certainly does not ease our mind. I have been giving it some thought and reflecting on what exactly software engineering is with my […]
If you read posts about .NET or Microsoft’s documentations, you see the parse “dependency injection” (DI) a lot. Everyone say it is good practice and you should do it but what exactly is DI? Today, I will try to explain dependency injection like you are five. Dependency Inversion Before talking about dependency injection, let’s talk […]
One thing I realized when I upgraded my application from .NET Framework to .NET 8 using the Visual Studio Upgrade Assistance was that it did not migrate App.config to appsettings.json. In fact, it just added a reference to System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager and the old way of using App.config and Setting.settings just worked. This is great if all […]
A common question that comes up in .NET development is how to setup local configuration for development only when you are working with other developers on the same git repo. For the purpose of demoing, let’s assume we have the below appsettings.json and we would like to change the connection string during development. Let’s start […]
A common approach in the old days (.NET framework days) to create a windows service that run on a schedule is to use Topshelf as a hosting framework and use Quartz to schedule the job. Moving forward some time, Microsoft has introduced Worker service back in .NET Core 3, which basically replaced Topshelf. Today, I […]
Azure App Configuration is an Azure service that manage application settings and feature flags. Today, I am going to go through how to set up a .NET 8 application to retrieve settings from Azure App Configuration, reference Azure Key Vault for secrets and dynamically update settings. The sample I am using is a .NET 8 […]
Since .NET 8, the template of Worker Services has changed from using IHostBuilder to HostApplicationBuilder. .NET 7 .NET 8 As a result, the way to implement Application Insights and Serilog in Worker Service has changed a bit and I am going to go through it. NuGet packages These are the packages you need. You may […]
