A while back I posted an article on how to extend the existing help pages generated by Visual Studio for Web API projects to use reflection instead of XML documentation. One of the limitations of that approach was that you could not test the APIs directly. You had to use SoapUI or equivalent. Since then… Continue reading Documenting Web APIs with Swagger
Quick, what is the syntax for ArgumentException? How about ArgumentOutOfRangeException? Did you know the arguments are swapped between the two? In one case the parameter name comes first while the other has the message first. Getting this wrong is so easy that it happens a lot. Fluent APIs have become very popular for a variety… Continue reading Fluent Argument Validation
In this series of articles I have been demonstrating a simple approach to making Windows services. In the previous article I discussed the different components generally involved in writing a service. I also provided the code for the service host and started working on the service instance. In this article I’m going to finish up… Continue reading Windows Services Made Simpler, Part 3
In the last article I provided an overview of Windows services and the issues involved in writing one compared to a normal program. In this article I will demonstrate how to write a simple service in a way that helps alleviate these issues. Before getting into the code for a service it is important to… Continue reading Windows Services Made Simpler, Part 2
In Windows a service is a process whose lifetime is managed by the system rather than by a user. MSDN describes a service as a long running process and often times this is true. Services tend to start before a user logs in (or shortly thereafter) and run until the system shuts down. This is… Continue reading Windows Services Made Simpler, Part 1