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Logging in .NET with Exceptionless

There are plenty of options when it comes to logging in .NET.  NLog, log4net, Serilog are a few of the names you have likely heard.   One that I recently stumbled upon was Exceptionless. Complexity Logging shouldn’t be difficult.  But sometimes it sure feels that way. Generally, all I want to do is record various log messages through my application.  These could be handled or unhandled exceptions, debug logs with unstructured data, or just general informational logs such as feature usage. Exceptionless Exceptionless provides the means to persist all the types of logs that I mentioned above to a remote server.… Read More »Logging in .NET with Exceptionless

Windsor-Essex .NET Developers

I started a .NET Developers group in Windsor-Essex.  Why? Well first a bit of back story. I first started using .NET with C# around 2003-2004 with .NET 1.1.   At the time I was primary using Linux as my desktop and writing PHP and Python and creating web apps. However, I was required to create a Native Win32 app.  I had used Delphi and Object Pascal just prior but decided to use take the .NET route. Fast forward 13 or so years and I’m still using and for the most part enjoying the ride. OSS A lot has changed in the past 13… Read More »Windsor-Essex .NET Developers

Mediator Pattern with Hangfire

I’ve run into situations where I need to perform actions requested by the client that may take a bit of time.  The length of time could be variable and I don’t want to have the client waiting for a response.  Let’s take a look at using the Mediator Pattern with Hangfire as a solution to this problem. In a Web API scenario, the request may come in as a PUT or POST from the client. The API would validate the request, send the task to a queue and then return the client a 202 HTTP status code. The request has been… Read More »Mediator Pattern with Hangfire