A brief guide on how Prometheus and Grafana can be used for monitoring the API usage in ASP.NET core web application — There can be many scenario where you want to trace API usage for different purposes. you want to charge your customer based on no of API calls. you want to know popularity of certain APIs. and many others. In this tutorial, we are going to look at how we can…

In this tutorial, I am going to demonstrate how we can create colorful and more interactive console app in .net core. Let’s look at the output first so that you know what you will be getting at the end of tutorial.

In this article, I am not going to talk about known Unit test framework or packages like NUnit or xUnit or Moq. These are well known packages and I am sure most of you are already familiar with them. Here I am going to talk about some Nuget Packages which…

Since the beginning of .NET, date and time are always thought to be used together and that might be the reason it is available as only one type DateTime in .NET. Think of a scenario where we have to deal with only dates for storing data such as DateOfBirth, or…

A short guide on how to filter APIs on Swagger by Role — When the swagger document gets loaded in swagger UI we can see all the API’s but what if I want to filter some of the API based on role they should be accessible. let’s take an example, I have a following swagger doc

A comprehensive guide for enhancing logs and log analysis experience with Seq — In this tutorial, I am going to explain how we can do some advance logging with Serilog to include some more information in logs. also I will be using Seq for storing and visualizing the logs at centralize location for better log analysis. Let’s start by creating a sample project…

So I was doing the experiment of using DateOnly with .NET core web Api and I had the following structure public class Movie { public int Id { get; set; } public string? Title { get; set; } public DateOnly ReleaseDate { get; set; } public…

A way of unit testing end to end the Web API in .NET 6 — Dev 1: Why do we have low code coverage for .NET core Api project? Dev 2: We have these classes such as program.cs and startup.cs which has lot of code that are not being covered during unit tests. Dev 1 : Then write some tests for them and increase code…

A short guide to mock http calls in Unit Testing in C# or .NET — Many time we call external rest API’s from our backend code and we want to write unit test for such code so that we can test our code with the expected response from API. So we have two choice either we use mock API server or we mock http call. …