Mike Rousos

Migrating RealProxy Usage to DispatchProxy

January 12th, 2021

The RealProxy type is not available in .NET Core or .NET 5, but other replacement types have been added. This post looks at how DispatchProxy and Castle.Core's DynamicProxy enable AOP paradigms in .NET 5.

WSFederationHttpBinding in .NET Standard

January 7th, 2021

The new `System.ServiceModel.Federation` package adds support for `WSFederationHttpBinding` and `WS2007FederationHttpBinding` which enable WS-Federation authentication scenarios. In this post, I'll show you you the basics of getting started with these client-side bindings in your .NET Core applications and .NET Standard libraries.

Migrating a Sample WPF App to .NET Core 3 (Part 2)

June 10th, 2019

In part 1 of this blog series, I began the process of porting a sample WPF app to .NET Core. In that post, I described the .NET Core migration process as having four steps: We previously went through the first two steps - reviewing the app and its dependencies (including NuGet dependencies and a .NET Portability Analyzer report), updating ...

Migrating a Sample WPF App to .NET Core 3 (Part 1)

June 10th, 2019

Olia recently wrote a post about how to port a WinForms app from .NET Framework to .NET Core. Today, I'd like to follow that up by walking through the steps to migrate a sample WPF app to .NET Core 3. Many of these steps will be familiar from Olia's post, but I've tried to differentiate this one by including some additional common dependencies...

Migrating Delegate.BeginInvoke Calls for .NET Core

March 28th, 2019

I recently worked with a couple customers migrating applications to .NET Core that had to make code changes to workaround BeginInvoke and EndInvoke methods on delegates not being supported on .NET Core. In this post, we'll look at why these APIs aren't implemented for .NET Core, why their usage isn't caught by the .NET API Portability Analyzer...

Hosting .NET Core Services on Service Fabric

October 13th, 2016

This post was written by Vaijanath Angadihiremath, a software engineer on the .NET team. This tutorial is for users who already have a group of ASP.NET Core services which they want to host as microservices in Azure using Azure Service Fabric. Azure Service Fabric is a great way to host microservices in a PaaS world to obtain many benefits ...

Implementing Seeding, Custom Conventions and Interceptors in EF Core 1.0

September 29th, 2016

This post was written by Alina Popa, a software engineer on the .NET team. Updated 10/5/2016: This post has been updated to use improved Entity Framework Core techniques which don’t rely on internal APIs. Implementing Seeding, Custom Conventions and Interceptors in EF Core 1.0 Introduction Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a ...

Custom ASP.NET Core Middleware Example

September 19th, 2016

One of the great things about ASP.NET Core is its extensibility. The behavior of an ASP.NET Core app's HTTP request handling pipeline can be easily customized by specifying different middleware components. This allows developers to plug in request handlers like MVC middleware, static file providers, authentication, error pages, or even their ...