Dependency Injection

ASP.NET – How to use a BackgroundService for long-running and periodic tasks

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In ASP.NET, when you need a long-running background task, or need to run a task periodically, you can implement IHostedService or BackgroundService and register your class as a hosted service in Startup. As you may have already encountered, if you try to run a long-running background task, the web server will randomly kill your task … Read more ASP.NET – How to use a BackgroundService for long-running and periodic tasks

C# – How to unit test async methods

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Let’s say you have the following async method you want to test: Here’s how to unit test this: This is awaiting the method you’re testing. To await it, you must make the unit test method return async Task. This example is a bit simplistic. In the real world when you are working with async methods, … Read more C# – How to unit test async methods

How to mock static methods

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The need to mock static methods in order to add a unit test is a very common problem. It’s often the case that these static methods are in third-party libraries. There are many utility libraries that are completely made up of static methods. While this makes them very easy to use, it makes them really … Read more How to mock static methods