Adding Yaml to Asp.Net Core configuration system

This sample code uses YamlDotNet to parse yaml and inherits from FileConfigurationSource and FileConfigurationProvider: Creating a custom ConfigurationProvider in ASP.NET Core to parse YAML.

Minimal http static file server

A very usefull minimal http static file server in Asp.Net core (Starting a http file server from the file explorer using .NET Core – Meziantou’s blog). Can also be regsitered in Explorer contextual menu.

Optimize Post-Redirect-Get with TempData

How to use CookieTempDataProvider to prevent requerying data during subsequent get request: Post-Redirect-Get and TempData with ASP.NET Core – Meziantou’s blog

Mastering The Developer Tools Console

A list of what is available after console. in a dev tools console Mastering The Developer Tools Console – Treehouse Blog (sometime restricted to Chrome).

protobuf-net: on the road to break size limits and much more

On the road to breaking size limits, the futur of protobuf-net could be using Utf8String, Span<T>,ValueTask<T> when usefull and “Channels” (from corefxlab): Code, code and more code.: protobuf-net: large data, and the future

How to limit Rest API usage based on IP or Client ID

AspNetCoreRateLimit is an ASP.NET Core rate limiting solution designed to control the rate of requests that clients can make to a Web API or MVC app based on IP address or client ID.

via stefanprodan/AspNetCoreRateLimit: ASP.NET Core rate limiting middleware

Linq made visual

A graphic representation of each Linq operators (in fact a screen shot of OzCode): A Visual Lexicon of LINQ – Simple Talk.

Great for learning Linq and a great spotlight on OzCode. It remains to be seen whether the extension is not too heavy for a daily use.

Pre-compressed static files in self host Asp.Net Core

When using StaticFileMiddleware and ResponseCompressionMiddleware, each file is read from slow disk uncompressed and then dynamically compressed (consuming CPU each time). It’s clearly ineffective in terms of CPU, disk and time.

A better approach is to pre compress some files on disk, mark them as already compressed using some kind of metadata and return them as is if compression is accepted or decompressed them dynamically.

This library provides a middelware to do it: AnderssonPeter/CompressedStaticFiles: asp.net middelware for Kestrel to serve precompressed static files.

It started with Use pre-gzipped content files? GitHub #1584.

 

EDIT: Also found a non core implementation. More limited but (gz only) but usefull: https://github.com/damianh/StaticFilesMiddleware (it’s a StaticFilesMiddleware replacement).

How to lighten Web API in Asp.Net Core

Asp.Net Core provides a unified model for MVC and WebAPI and default templates use unified meta packages dependencies. This simplifies evolutions but we can also choose to lighten Web API using only needed dependencies. How to to it is detailed in Removing the MVC Razor dependencies from the Web API template in ASP.NET Core.

Sample code provides AddWebApi as a light version of AddMvc.

Microsoft/reactxp

Something found by chance A library for building cross-platform apps – ReactXP. It’s “a thin cross-platform layer” “currently supports the following platforms:

• iOS (React Native)
• Android (React Native)
• Web (React)
• Windows 10 – UWP (React Native) – in progress”