André Snede

Developer blog

Tagged: .net

Get started with .NET Generic Host 2

.NET Core / ASP.NET Core

Get started with .NET Generic Host

Learn how Microsoft made it easier to bootstrap your new .NET Core project and get started with .NET Generic host. In the version bump to .NET Core 2.1, Microsoft added the .NET Generic Host, which is a non-web version of the WebHost that runs ASP.NET Core. The thought behind this addition was to allow us to re-use the tools that we use in ASP.NET, such as dependency injection and logging abstractions of Microsoft.Extensions. Later on, in ASP.NET Core 3.0 and 3.1, they moved ASP.NET to run on .NET Generic Host instead of the previously used WebHost, merging the two approaches together to make them truly the same. Now we can build our console applications, systemd’s, windows services or web apps on the same underlying hosting paradigm, with the same shared...

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Debugging

Hunting .NET memory leaks with Windbg

Recently a client called me about an issue where one of their production servers would run out of memory, every other week. The application in question was a .NET Framework 4.5 Windows service, that runs in an Azure VM, and ever so often it would become unstable and start causing trouble. I have previously helped this client set up an ELK stack, so it was quick for me to go into Kibana, look at metricbeat data, and see that their server indeed slowly was eating up memory over time. And every time the application was restarted, the memory would return to normal, and slowly creep upwards again. As you can clearly see, the application uses gradually more and more memory over time. Every time the line drops, was a restart...