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Protecting access to gRPC services with Auth0
Having already introduced the concept of gRPC services and having walked through how to consume a gRPC service using .NET Core, I’m now going to cover the next most fundamental topics; authentication and authorization. For production applications, your API endpoints are normally going to be available publicly and therefore they need to be protected from…
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How to consume a gRPC service using .NET Core
In a prior post, I introduced the key concepts behind using gRPC to develop an RPC service and walked through the process of creating a sample project. In this article, I build on the previously discussed topics by adding an additional service and a client to the sample project. After reading through the content below,…
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Getting to grips with gRPC… A gentle introduction
Before we begin, here’s a quick definition of the term “Get to grips” to mull over. to make an effort to understand and deal with a problem or situation If you’re looking into micro-service communication options for a greenfield project, gRPC is a great place to start. In this article, I take a first look at…
How to generate a random string with C#
On occasion, during day-to-day programming, the problem I am working on requires the generation of a random sequence of characters. For example, when dealing with some sort of account entity, the account might require a unique account reference to be specified upon its creation. Considering this scenario, it would be inconvenient for the end-user to…
XML Serialization with C#
Today JSON has taken over the role of XML for many scenarios, however, XML is still in very wide usage. XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language and has been a stalwart for data-interchange since the year 1998. It has been adapted over time to solve many different problems related to programming. In this article, I…
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How to parse the name parts from a full name using SQL
Sometimes I come across situations where I need to extract the individual parts of a full name from a database record which relates to a person e.g. a customer or an employee. This may be part of general application logic or perhaps something that needs to be carried out during a database migration. For example,…
Time to Reflect… How to add properties to a C# object dynamically at runtime
Have you been searching for a way to dynamically add properties to an object at runtime using C#? If so, you may have come across how to do this using ExpandoObject. However, after some further research, perhaps you’ve determined that it’s not what you are really looking for. For example, you might be trying to…
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Don’t be a victim… Log your SQL Server deadlocks
Quite often there are situations in which you are aware that deadlocks are happening in your SQL Server database, but you are lacking the information required to fix them. What you need under these circumstances is an automated way of tracking the locks and logging them. In this article, I demonstrate a simple way to…
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