As mentioned in the previous post, all the projects at work are in the process of upgrading to latest .NET Core 3+. In this post, I’ll be discussing another issue we come across during the upgrade. One of the projects has a custom Authorize attribute where we need to read the request body. The custom … [Read more…]
The problem All our projects are in .Net Core 2+. Since Microsoft announces end of support for .Net Core 2.2, we have been in the process of upgrading all the projects to the latest .Net Core version. Upgrading to .Net Core 3+ version means that we could use all the new features in C# 8, … [Read more…]
One of my recent tasks at work requires some XML manipulations. This includes reading value of an XML element, changing an element value, reading values of children nodes and reading the outer XML value of an element. In this post, I’m going to show how to do these using XDocument in .Net Core. We’ll use … [Read more…]
Some of our services have to make outbound HTTP requests to an integration partner via a proxy. In this post, I’m going to show how to configure the proxy when registering HTTP clients. This will work with all types of HTTP clients, see here for more information on what they are. Let’s say we want … [Read more…]
In one of my recent projects at work, I have to build a web API which simply returns a XML string as raw XML in the response. The response header also needs to have a content type of text/xml. The endpoint will always returns XML, result is already an XML string and not some objects … [Read more…]
Recently, I use a library at work where I need to pass in the PEM format values of the private key and certificate from a pfx file. In this post, I’m going to show how to find these from a pfx file using openssl. The PEM format of the private key is a Base64 encoded … [Read more…]
In the last post, I showed how to dynamically get an instance of the generic type from DI container. In this post, I’m going to show how to call a generic method from that instance of the generic type dynamically using Reflection. From the last post, this is what the generic interface looks like I’m … [Read more…]
I have a generic interface called IConverter which accepts one type of object and returns a different type. There are many different implementations of this interface and they are all registered in the DI container (see last post on how to automatically register all implementations of a generic interface in DI container). However, where this … [Read more…]
I have a generic interface which has many implementations. I expect to have more implementations of this generic interface in the future. However, I don’t want to manually register these implementations in the service container every time I add a new one. It’d also cause runtime exception if I forget to register one of these … [Read more…]
In the last post, I showed how to add custom suffix in namespaces when sending SOAP XML request. In this post, I’m going to show how to add custom suffix in namespaces in XML response in a web service that uses SoapCore. At the time of writing, the SoapCore version is 1.0.0.3-alpha. This post will … [Read more…]