Søren Kruse | .NET, C# and Azure
C#

  1. Dynamic caching policy with Polly

    Polly is great library for easily configuring different kinds of policies around code execution, be it retry, circuit breaker, caching or lots of other things. It's probably most often used around HTTP requests. If you haven't heard about it you definitely should check it out. App-vNext/PollyPolly is a .NET…
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  2. Unit Testing - Part 2: Naming, structure and readability

    This is part 2 of my series on unit testing in .NET (C#) and will be about my conventions regarding naming unit tests, how to structure them and which parts to test. And lastly I will help you increase readability of assertions and potential error messages with the FluentAssertions library.…
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  3. Unit Testing - Part 1: Getting started with unit tests in .NET

    I feel like unit testing is very important and very beneficial in a lot of ways. It helps with not breaking existing functionality and thereby also making you more confident in changing code without fear of breaking important stuff. Often it also makes the code less coupled because highly coupled…
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  4. Getting NSwag to work behind reverse proxy

    I've been working with Swagger through NSwag a lot recently and also needed to get it to work when hidden behind a reverse proxy - i.e. another service forwarding a request to the service exposing the Swagger UI. Some of the issues I've had along the way: Not working…
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  5. NSubstitute - make async method (Task) throw an exception

    The other day I was writing a unit test to verify what was supposed to happen when a Task would throw an exception when awaited. It wasn't as straight forward as I first assumed, but I quickly found this Stack Overflow post that helped me: NSubstitute - mock throwing an…
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  6. MongoDB, C# and DateTimeOffset

    The MongoDB driver for C#/.NET can currently be serialized/deserialized in three different ways - as an array, object or string. You can control the BSON representation of your property by adding the [BsonRepresentation] attribute or set it on your class map. [BsonRepresentation(BsonType.String)] public DateTimeOffset EventStart { get;…
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  7. Octopus C# script step not finishing unawaited async Tasks

    You might find yourself wanting to start an async Task either through Task.Run(() => ...) or something like Task DoSomethingAsync() or Task.Delay() where you don't want to await the completion of the task. You just want the step to complete and the task to continue running in the background.…
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  8. ErgastApiClient - C# library for querying the Ergast Developer API (Formula 1 data)

    The Ergast Developer API (http://ergast.com/mrd/) is an awesome (experimental) web service which provides a historical record of Formula 1 data for non-commercial purposes. The API contains data all the back to the beginning in 1950. Some time ago I wanted to query some of this data and…
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