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Andrew Lock

  2. Using anonymous types and tuples to attach correlation IDs to scope state with Serilog and Seq in ASP.NET Core

    In my last post I gave an introduction to structured logging, and described how you can use scopes to add additional key-value pairs to log messages. Unfortunately, the syntax for key-value pairs using ILogger.BeginScope() can be a bit verbose, so I showed an extension method you can use to…
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  3. Creating an extension method for attaching key-value pairs to scope state using ASP.NET Core

    This is the first in a short series of posts exploring the process I went through to make working with scopes a little nicer in ASP.NET Core (and Serilog / Seq). In this post I'll create an extension method for logging a single key-value pair as a scope. In the…
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  4. How to include scopes when logging exceptions in ASP.NET Core

    This post describes how to work around an issue I ran into when logging exceptions that occur inside a scope block in ASP.NET Core. I'll provide a brief background on logging in ASP.NET Core, structured logging, and the concept of scopes. Then I'll show how exceptions can cause…
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  5. Creating a rolling file logging provider for ASP.NET Core 2.0

    ASP.NET Core includes a logging abstraction that makes writing logs to multiple locations easy. All of the first-party libraries that make up ASP.NET Core and EF Core use this abstraction, and the vast majority of libraries written for ASP.NET Core will too. That means its easy to…
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  6. Aligning strings within string.Format and interpolated strings

    I was browsing through the MSDN docs the other day, trying to remind myself of the various standard ToString() format strings, when I spotted something I have somehow missed in all my years of .NET - alignment components. This post is for those of you who have also managed to…
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  7. Using CancellationTokens in ASP.NET Core MVC controllers

    In this post I'll show how you can use a CancellationToken in your ASP.NET Core action method to stop execution when a user cancels a request from their browser. This can be useful if you have long running requests that you don't want to continue using up resources when…
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