Is there finally a Heroku for .NET developers? AppHarbor thinks so.
If you’ve read many of my posts, especially those from my previous blog (The .NET Addict), then you’re well aware of how much I like Heroku. These guys are geniuses and the service they offer is...
View ArticleJava Initializers vs C# Constructors
Today I had yet another opportunity to discover and interesting (and unexpected) difference between C# and Java. I was looking through some code and noticed a bizarre construct – some code sitting...
View ArticleBuilding a RESTful Service with Grizzly, Jersey, and Glassfish
I realize that my typical blog post of late usually revolves around creating something with iOS or building an application for Mac OS X or wondering what the hell is up with the Windows 8 identity...
View ArticleCreating a Microservice with the ASP.NET Web API
I’ve been blogging about microservices for quite some time, and have included examples in Scala/Akka, Go, and even Java. Today I thought I would include a sample of how to build a microservice using...
View ArticleCreating a Microservice in ASP.NET 5 RC1
In this blog post, I am going to walk through my experience using ASP.NET 5 (on my Mac!) to create a very simple microservice. I thought I would embrace the new separated, component nature of .NET 5...
View ArticleMigrating to ASP.NET Core in the Cloud: What you will and won’t miss from...
The folks over at InfoQ have graciously provided a nice list of technology that has been discontinued in .NET Core. You can find their original list here. They present the list without much opinion or...
View ArticleDeploying ASP.NET 5 (Core) Apps to Windows in Cloud Foundry
Today I found myself sequestered in a room with a pile of super smart people. This is my favorite kind of day. We have already experimented with pushing an ASP.NET Core application to Cloud Foundry on...
View ArticleUsing Cloud Foundry Bound Services with SteelToe on ASP.NET Core
Before I begin, if you’re not familiar with the concept of backing services or bound services in Cloud Foundry (any of the implementations, including PCF Dev, support service bindings in some form),...
View ArticleMigrating an ASP.NET Core RC1 Microservice to RC2
In a recent blog post, I talked about how to deploy an ASP.NET Core RC1 service to the cloud. With yesterday’s release of ASP.NET Core RC2, I had to make a number of minor changes to my code in order...
View ArticleAdding a Configurable Global Route Prefix in ASP.NET Core
This morning I was asked if it was possible to set up a configurable global route prefix in ASP.NET Core applications. I’ve done this in the past using the old (now legacy) Web API as well as with...
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