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Bare metal APIs with ASP.NET Core MVC

Jan 20, 2017

Ben Foster shows how to build a lightweight HTTP API using ASP.NET Core by just pulling in the packages you need and excluding the web application parts you're not going to be using.

Integration Testing with Entity Framework Core and SQL Server

Jan 19, 2017

David Paquette discusses why you might want to implement EF integration tests against a SQL Server backend, shows how, and calls out some important considerations.

Generic Repository Pattern In ASP.NET Core

Jan 18, 2017

Nice article from Sandeep Singh Shekhawat explaining how to implement the generic repository pattern in an ASP.NET Core application.

Building Application Insights Logging Provider for ASP.NET Core

Jan 17, 2017

Hisham Bin Ateya describes a custom logging provider for ASP.NET Core.

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