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The safest way to make REST calls in C#

New! Generate MCP servers from OpenAPI specs!!! Built from the ground up with functional programming, type safety, and modern .NET patterns. Successor to the original RestClient.Net. The design ...
GitHub

A set of extension methods for mocking HttpClient and IHttpClientFactory with Moq.

Mocking HttpClient has historically been surprisingly difficult, with the solution being to either create a wrapper to mock instead (at the cost of cluttering the code) or use a separate HTTP library ...
InfoWorld

Use logging and DI in minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 6

How to implement logging, read from the configuration system, and use dependency injection in minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 6. ASP.NET Core 6 introduces a simplified hosting model that can be used to ...
InfoWorld

How to use IHttpClientFactory in ASP.NET Core

When working in applications in ASP.NET Core you might often need to invoke the Web API action methods using HttpClient to check if the endpoints are working fine. To achieve this, you would typically ...
Visual Studio Magazine

You're Using HttpClient Wrong

There's a very good chance that, every time you need to access a Web Service, you've been creating an HttpClient object and then throwing it away. Unfortunately, that's bad for your application ...