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JetBrains Dependency Injection Webinar

15 Apr 2021 ASP.NET Core Clean Code Dependency Injection Design Patterns Webinars Middleware

Last week, I had the honour of presenting a live webinar for JetBrains where I gave a presentation about using Dependency Injection in .NET Core and .NET 5. The recording is now available on YouTube.

Introducing Strongly Typed HTTP Request Headers for ASP.NET Core

12 Jan 2021 ASP.NET Core C# 9 Clean Code Dependency Injection

In this first part of a series of posts, I discuss the thinking behind taking string based HTTP Headers and presenting them to your .NET code via dependency injection as strongly typed objects.

Understanding Disposables In .NET Dependency Injection - Part 3

17 Nov 2020 ASP.NET Core Clean Code Dependency Injection Design Patterns .NET Core IDisposable

Following on from Parts 1 and 2, in this final part of the series, I move on to dealing with types that you do not have source control for and therefore cannot change directly to hide the Dispose method using the techniques I have described in the previous posts.

Understanding Disposables In .NET Dependency Injection - Part 2

17 Nov 2020 ASP.NET Core Clean Code Dependency Injection Design Patterns .NET Core IDisposable

Following on from Part 1 where I provide an overview of hiding the Dispose method from consumers of the Dependency Injection container, in this part, I move on to dealing with objects that are created outside, but registered with the DI container.

Understanding Disposables In .NET Dependency Injection - Part 1

17 Nov 2020 ASP.NET Core Clean Code Dependency Injection Design Patterns .NET Core IDisposable

In this post I will be discussing the traps that can catch you out by potentially creating memory leaks when registering types that implement the IDisposable interface as services with the out-of-the-box .NET Dependency Injection container.

C# 9 Record Factories

20 Oct 2020 C# 9 Clean Code Design Patterns

In this post, I walk through using the Factory Pattern to create instances of C# 9 records where instances can be created using a combination of input from the IoC container, caller input and computed values derived from these.

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