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Implementing CORS in ASP.NET Core Web API: Enabling Secure Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

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Implementing CORS in ASP.NET Core Web API: Enabling Secure Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

In the world of web development, ensuring secure communication between different origins is crucial. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) comes to the rescue by allowing controlled access to resources on different domains. In this article, we'll delve into the realm of CORS, exploring its purpose and benefits. We'll also guide you

A Comprehensive Guide to Caching Strategies in Web API Development

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A Comprehensive Guide to Caching Strategies in Web API Development

Boosting the performance of your Web API is vital for delivering fast and efficient experiences to your users. Learn the fundamentals, discover different caching strategies, and uncover best practices to optimize your API's performance.

Implementing HATEOAS in your ASP NET Core web API: Enhancing API Discoverability and Navigability

Implementing HATEOAS in your ASP NET Core web API: Enhancing API Discoverability and Navigability

As developers, we strive to build robust and user-friendly web APIs that provide a seamless experience for clients. One powerful approach to achieve this is by implementing HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State) in our ASP.NET Core Web APIs as this provides a handful of benefits for

Exposing Related Entities in your Web API

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Exposing Related Entities in your Web API

When working on building a powerful API you will find yourself dealing with resources and more resources and these “resources” have “relations” between them and this is powerful as we can leverage the power of relational data to create amazing ways of displaying information or use it. But if you

Relationships in Entity Framework Core

Relationships in Entity Framework Core

Hello guys, welcome to yet another exciting chapter of this series on developing a web API with ASP NET Core. Today we will move on to an advanced topic “Relationships on entity framework core” We will create more models that are a vital part of a blog, for example, authors

Understanding The Filter Pipeline In ASP.NET Core

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Understanding The Filter Pipeline In ASP.NET Core

Hey guys I’m so happy to be writing again after a long absence I was sick and also I’m looking for a job so a lot of things are happening right now but the post I have prepared for you today is all worth the wait. In my

How to Use Patch Requests to Update Resources in Your REST API

How to Use Patch Requests to Update Resources in Your REST API

Hello guys, Oscar here with another amazing chapter on REST API Development with ASP NET 7. Today we have an amazing and relevant topic for our APIs to have more power and flexibility at the time of updating our API resources. If you're familiar with HTTP requests, you've probably heard

Sorting Resources on your ASP NET Core Web API

Sorting Resources on your ASP NET Core Web API

Hello my fellow developers, here we are on a new part of this Web API Development series, we continue with exciting topics like the last post about Filtering Data in our API. Today we will be learning about sorting resources on our API, the effect it can have in our

Filtering In Your ASP NET Core Web API: The Key to Efficient Data Retrieval

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Filtering In Your ASP NET Core Web API: The Key to Efficient Data Retrieval

Hello guys, I’m so glad to be here one more day to bring you some more valuable knowledge. Today we will not have API Friday 🥲, I know it’s sad but something it takes me more time than expected to build the projects and to play around with the

Improve Your Web API Performance With Pagination

Improve Your Web API Performance With Pagination

Hello guys, today continuing with the ASP NET Core web API series we will review an exciting topic and that is pagination I think that non of us are oblivious to pagination as in almost any website there is an implementation of this functionality say for example on Google Search

The Power of Asynchronous Code in your web API

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The Power of Asynchronous Code in your web API

Hello my fellow developers, on the last article I showed you how to add data validation using the fluent validation Nuget package. We discussed the relevance of implementing data validation for our API and for many other kinds of projects and also we saw how easy it was to implement

Data validation with Fluent Validation for ASP NET Core

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Data validation with Fluent Validation for ASP NET Core

Hello guys, welcome to another chapter of this series on API Development with ASP NET Core. In the last article, we talk about data mapping using auto mapper and I showed you how to implement data mapping from installing auto mapper to creating the mapping profiles and injecting auto mapper

Data transfer objects and mapping in asp net core

Data transfer objects and mapping in asp net core

Hello guys, I’m so glad to be back after a short rest. I took some time for myself to plan what’s coming next for my personal and professional life and to be honest, I’m still thinking about that but definitely, I feel more energic and enthusiastic about

Repository Pattern Implementation in ASP.NET Core

Repository Pattern Implementation in ASP.NET Core

Hello guys, this is the fourth part of a series where we are building a web API using ASP NET Core 7.0. In the previous post, we saw how to add some basic logging to our app to give us useful insight whenever an endpoint from our API was

Basics of logging in ASP NET Core

Basics of logging in ASP NET Core

Hey guys, I’m so glad to see you again on my blog. Today I’ll show you how to add logging to your asp net core applications and why you should do it. I’ll show you the basic aspects of application logging with Serilog however I’m pretty

Build a web API with C# & ASP NET Core 7.0

Build a web API with C# & ASP NET Core 7.0

Hello, guys today we will be building a web API with C# and ASP NET Core 7.0 which is the latest version as of now while I'm writing this article. What will our API be about? well, it will be a web API for a blog, we will be