Working in the .NET ecosystem can feel very insular.  Especially if you work in the enterprise.  At the very beginning of my career in software development (circa late ’90s), I was generally using more open tooling and languages.  The atmosphere in those communities had (past tense) a much different feeling than it does in the .NET community. Most developers that are in .NET can feel the changes that have been occurring recently.  There has been a bigger wave of alternative and open source software awareness within .NET.  However, I still don’t think that the .NET community at large are even aware… Read More »NancyFX: .NET Web Framework

What I love about Katana (OWIN Implementation) is the ability to add functionality through the request pipeline.  In this post I’m going to extend my ASP.NET Self Host Web Api application by demonstrating how you can create your own Katana Middleware. What’s OWIN Middleware? OWIN specification defines middleware as: Middleware – Pass through components that form a pipeline between a server and application to inspect, route, or modify request and response messages for a specific purpose. Katana IAppBuilder.Use There are couple different ways you can create your own middleware.  The simplest is to call the IAppBuild.Use method in your Startup class. For our example,… Read More »How-To Create Katana Middleware

Continuing in my Owin and Katana series of blog posts, I’m going to demo an ASP.NET Self Host Static File Server. If you have not seen my previous posts in this series, I’ve covered how to self host a Web Api application and how to use Topshelf to debug and run as a windows service. The wonderful thing about the shift to Owin and Katana with ASP.NET is middleware. Katana has a file server implementation that you can plugin to your application startup pipeline in order to serve static files either on a filesystem or from embedded resources. Middleware The first… Read More »ASP.NET Self Host Static File Server