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Full source code available here. If you are used to using HttpContent.ReadAsAsync you might be surprised to learn that it is missing from .NET Core 2. You can try adding Microsoft.

Full source code available here. Unit testing Entity Framework used to be quite a chore, but over the past few years it has become significantly easier. In this post I’m going to show you how to use the InMemory database with named instances.

Full source code available here. Unit testing Web API controllers in .NET Core 2 is very easy. I have very simple GET and POST methods. 1[Route("api/[controller]")] 2public class ValuesController : Controller 3{ 4[HttpGet] 5 public async Task<IActionResult> Get() 6 { 7 // imagine some db logic 8 List<string> values = new List<string>() { "value1", "value2" }; 9 return Ok(values); 10 } 1112[HttpPost] 13 public async Task<IActionResult> Post([FromBody]string value) 14 { 15 // imagine some db logic 16 return Created("", value); 17 } 18} Add an xUnit Test Project to your solution.

Full source code available here. In .Net Core Web Api it is not possible for the routing mechanism to distinguish between the following action methods. public string GetSomething(int id, int something) and public string GetAnother(int id, int another)

Full source code available here. Routing in .NET Core Web Api (1.1 and 2) is a little different than in earlier versions. I’ve written about this a few times, you can find those posts here.

Full source code available here. I have written about Fluent Validation a couple of times. There is a new library available for .Net Core. How to return to validation messages back to the caller is not immediately obvious.

Full source code available here. Want to learn more about Polly? Check out my Pluralsight course on it. In previous posts on Polly I showed how to use a simple retry, and a retry with a delegate that is called before the request is retried.

Full source code available here. Want to learn more about Polly? Check out my Pluralsight course on it. In a previous post I showed how to use Polly to make a simple call, retrying in the event of failure.

Want to learn more about Polly? Check out my Pluralsight course on it. Polly is fantastic for transparently retrying a request but there is always a point at which you must give up.

Microsoft just released .NET Framework 4.7, but surprisingly it is not the easiest to install. Here are the steps for Windows 10, as of this writing, it is not available for earlier versions for of Windows.