Common needs when building enterprise software
During these days, I've been wondering a lot about the Software Engineer role. According to Wikipedia "A software engineer is a person who applies the principles of software engineering to…
Test your web app with Selenium, xUnit and .NET Core
In this article I'll quickly show you an easy way to test a web application, written in any language you like, using .NET Core and Selenium. With "testing the application"…
Mapping objects made easy with AutoMapper
What's AutoMapper AutoMapper is a powerful tool for .NET developers used for object mapping, created by Jimmy Bogard. It is used to map different objects (classes or structs in our…
How to handle File and Folder dialog windows in a WPF application
WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is a set of libraries relying on the .NET Framework (also available from .NET Core 3) which allows you to build graphical desktop applications. On December…
How to integrate ASP.NET Identity Core inside your web application
In this tutorial I will show you how to integrate one of the most complete and easy to use authentication system in your aspnet core web application. This is called…
Make a fully functional ASP.NET Core application out of a bootstrap admin template
In the last couple of years, it happened quite often that I had to build a web application to serve as a backoffice administration panel. So I took a fresh…
Quick introduction on how to use the ASP.NET Core built-in dependency injection
Intro Dependency injection is a programming technique where an object (the client) gets a dependency (i.e. a service) supplied by another object (the injector). This way the client delegates the…
Handle multi types basic crud operations in Entity Framework
Sometimes we find ourselves in the need of handling various types of objects (or entities) while using Entity Framework as ORM for our projects. The situation can be a bit…
Testing your code part 3 – ClassData and MemberData
In the previous article we've seen how to use the [Theory] attribute with [InlineData], which allow us to have static elements to feed our tests methods. This particular approach can bring lots of…
Testing your code part 2 – Theories and InlineData
In the last article we introduced xUnit.net and talked about the very basic way to write tests with the [Fact] attribute. Today will we'll add some spicy to our tests with the [Theory] attribute.…