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2. Reducing initial request latency by pre-building services in a startup task in ASP.NET Core

   In this post I show a startup task that pre-builds all the services registered in the DI container to reduce the duration of the first request to the app.…

   February 05, 2019 in ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection
3. Running async tasks on app startup in ASP.NET Core (Part 4 - using health checks)

   In this post I describe an approach to running tasks on startup that uses IHostedService to run the tasks and exposes their status using health checks…

   January 29, 2019 in ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection Configuration Health Checks
4. Running async tasks on app startup in ASP.NET Core (Part 3 - Feedback)

   In this post I discuss some feedback on my previous posts about running async tasks on startup, including why database migrations were a poor example…

   January 22, 2019 in ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection Configuration
5. Running async tasks on app startup in ASP.NET Core (Part 2)

   In this post I show two approaches for running tasks asynchronously on app startup. Both approach allow registering tasks using DI, but have different trade…

   January 15, 2019 in ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection Configuration
6. Running async tasks on app startup in ASP.NET Core (Part 1)

   In this post I look at the problem of running one-off tasks asynchronously on app startup in ASP.NET Core. I explore the options and discuss pros and cons…

   January 08, 2019 in ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection Configuration
7. Using dependency injection with Twilio SMS and ASP.NET Core 2.1

   In this post, I describe how to create a custom ITwilioRestClient, register it with the DI container, and inject it into an MVC controller.…

   January 02, 2019 in ASP.NET Core Twilio