Logging to the database with ASP.NET Core

I was reading about logging in ASP.NET when I came across this statement about logging to the database: When logging to SQL Server, don’t do so directly. Instead, add log messages to an in-memory queue and have a background worker dequeue and insert data to SQL Server. Paraphrased from Microsoft – No asynchronous logger methods … Read more

Control ASP.NET behavior when background service crashes

When a background service throws an unhandled exception in ExecuteAsync(), you have two options: You can change the behavior if the default isn’t what you want (notice the default behavior changed in .NET 6). In .NET 6+, you can configure the behavior in the initialization code. Here’s an example of making it ignore crashed background … Read more

C# – Dependency inject BackgroundService into controllers

Let’s say you have a hosted BackgroundService called DatabaseLoggerService. It runs in the background and logs messages to the database. It has the following definition: You want your controllers to use this for logging. In other words, you want them to depend on ILoggerService, not the concrete DatabaseLoggerService class. First, constructor inject ILoggerService into your … Read more

How to use BackgroundService in ASP.NET Core

You can use a hosted BackgroundService in ASP.NET Core for two purposes: In this article, I’ll show how to create and register a hosted BackgroundService. In this example, it periodically pings a URL and logs the results. 1 – Subclass BackgroundService The first step is to subclass BackgroundService: In this example, we’ll create a background … Read more