.NET tutorials
How do you resolve scoped services in a background service?
Learn how to resolve scoped and transient services in an ASP.NET Core background service by creating a new scope and how it can also be used for multithreading.
GetService or GetRequiredService in IServiceProvider?
Find out whether you should use the GetService or GetRequiredService method in the IServiceProvider type to resolve a service from ASP.NET Core dependency injection.
Use keyed services for multiple implementations of a service
Learn how to add and inject keyed services into an ASP.NET Core application so you can add multiple implementations of the same services.
How to inject services in ASP.NET Core dependency injection
We'll show you how to use dependency injection to inject services into controllers, minimal APIs, Razor views and middleware in an ASP.NET Core application.
How to use lifetimes in ASP.NET Core dependency injection?
We find out how the singleton, scoped and transient service lifetimes work in dependency injection and the differences between each one.
Use EF Core to easily save dates as UTC & show in local time
Learn how to create a ValueConverter in Entity Framework Core to save dates as UTC in the database & convert them back to your local time zone in ASP.NET Core.
How do you write a Dockerfile for an ASP.NET Core app?
Learn how to Dockerize an ASP.NET Core Web API by writing a Dockerfile to restore, build and publish your .NET application to a Docker container.
Static asset file sizes can be reduced by over 80% in .NET 9
Static asset delivery optimisation in .NET 9 uses Brotli and Gzip compression for static asset files which can reduce the file size by over 80%.