Welcome, and thanks for stopping by!

My name is Michael, I live and work in Germany.
I'm writing code for 2 decades now, and I'll try to share some of that with you here and on GitHub.

Here are some of my open source projects which can found on GitHub.

CacheManager

CacheManager
CacheManager is a caching abstraction layer for .NET which comes with a lot of configuration options, and many handy features.

DnsClient

DnsClient.NET
DnsClient is a simple yet very powerful and high performant open source library for the .NET Framework to do DNS lookups

Published 2018/5

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Integrating Autorest Clients with HttpClientFactory and DI

Discussing the problems and possible solutions to use generated autorest clients together with the new HttpClientFactory from Microsoft.Extensions.Http and DI...

Published 2017/6

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Overview and New Features of The Latest CacheManager Releases

Discussing the latest new features added to CacheManager and a quick overview of the work in progress...

Published 2017/5

Seven Tips For Using Swagger And AutoRest Together In ASP.NET Core Services

Swagger is probably the most popular API specification framework, AutoRest is a great library to generate clients out of Swagger definitions for various programming languages. Here are a few tips to get nice and clean results using the two together in ASP.NET Core MVC based web services....

Service Discovery And Health Checks In ASP.NET Core With Consul

In this post we'll take a quick look at what service discovery is, play with Consul and implement a basic service infrastructure in C# using the ASP.NET Core MVC framework and use DnsClient.NET to implement DNS based client side service discovery....

Published 2017/4

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Environment Variables and Configuration in ASP.NET Core Apps

Working with the local environment, configuration and settings of an application is a pretty common development task. Let’s have a look how this can be done with applications targeting the cross-platform .NET Core framework....

Validate and Secure GitHub Webhooks In C# With ASP.NET Core MVC

GitHub webhooks is fantastic tool for a website to retrieve information from GitHub repositories and display it to users, the moment something changes. But how can I use it with ASP.NET Core MVC, how does security work in that regards, and how can we prevent other sources to post invalid or fake webhook messages to the public endpoint of our website?...

Angular 4 - Getting Hashed Webpack Bundles Working in ASP.NET Core MVC

After playing a lot lately with the new angular-cli 1.0.0 which wraps around webpack, I ran into some issues making use of the -prod bundles produced by `ng build`....
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What if Redis Stops Working - How Do I Keep My App Running

An interesting question came up on the CacheManager repository in issue 146. What do I do, if the Redis server dies and might be offline for a while? Can we just continue working with in-memory cache and wait for Redis to come back online? And if so, how would I do that with CacheManager....

Published 2015/6

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Environment Variables in ASP.NET Core Apps

This is a quick walk-through of how to access application, runtime and user specific environmental variables in ASP.NET Core apps...

Published 2015/4

Single Page Todo App with CacheManager

This is about creating a single page web app using an ASP.NET Web API 2 Service which stores the data via Cache Manager....