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Derek Comartin

ASP.NET Core MVC Attribute Routing

Over the last several years, I haven’t done much work with ASP.NET 4 MVC.  I primarily have used ASP.NET Web API and then eventually went full on with Nancy. My main reason for switching to Nancy for creating Web API’s was I wasn’t overly fond of the ASP.NET MVC/WebAPI Routing.   I really liked how you you defined routes in Nancy by specifying the route in the constructor of your Module/Controller which was close to the Action. I tweeted this yesterday, and it seems I’m not alone. @codeopinion I’m very fond of attribute-based routing, moving the route definitions close to… Read More »ASP.NET Core MVC Attribute Routing

LazyCache: Caching Service for ObjectCache

I recently blogged about in-memory caching while I was looking for a library to sit on top of .NET ObjectCache or MemoryCache. Alastair Crabtree commented on my post, suggesting I take a look at this LazyCache library. So I figured I would take my existing demo application and port it to using LazyCache. As with most of my posts, all the following code is available as a demo application on GitHub. This demo console app is going to show currency exchange rate between USD and CAD for a given day. LazyCache Lazy cache is a simple in-memory caching service. It has a developer friendly generics based API,… Read More »LazyCache: Caching Service for ObjectCache

In-Memory Caching with Foundatio

I was recently looking for a simple in-memory caching library that sat on top of ConcurrentDictionary.  I didn’t have many requirements other than it needing to be thread safe and and had some expiry policy built-in.  I’ve used .NET MemoryCache before, but figured there likely had to be something simple else already built. My search led me to Foundatio: Pluggable foundation blocks for building distributed apps. Turns out Foundatio was created for building Exceptionless.  I’ve blogged about Exceptionless before, which is a real-time error and logging .NET and Javascript. Basics Caching in it’s various forms (in-memory, distributed) is simply about storing… Read More »In-Memory Caching with Foundatio