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Hands-On Microservices with C#

By : Matt Cole
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Hands-On Microservices with C#

By: Matt Cole

Overview of this book

C# is a powerful language when it comes to building applications and software architecture using rich libraries and tools such as .NET. This book will harness the strength of C# in developing microservices architectures and applications. This book shows developers how to develop an enterprise-grade, event-driven, asynchronous, message-based microservice framework using C#, .NET, and various open source tools. We will discuss how to send and receive messages, how to design many types of microservice that are truly usable in a corporate environment. We will also dissect each case and explain the code, best practices, pros and cons, and more. Through our journey, we will use many open source tools, and create file monitors, a machine learning microservice, a quantitative financial microservice that can handle bonds and credit default swaps, a deployment microservice to show you how to better manage your deployments, and memory, health status, and other microservices. By the end of this book, you will have a complete microservice ecosystem you can place into production or customize in no time.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
11
Trello Microservice – Board Status Updating
12
Microservice Manager – The Nexus

Creating our base project

As we mentioned in our previous chapter on Topshelf, all our microservices will be created as console applications. There are, however, two exceptions to this. Both our Common Messages project and our Base MicroService project will be a Class Library (.NET Framework). They will be referenced by all other projects and will never have the need to run themselves, so we save all that code and overhead.

To start, we should create a new project. Select the project type of Class Library (.NET Framework), label it Base MicroService, and click on OK, as shown in the following screenshot:

Once done, our base project will be created. We now have an empty base project that looks as follows:

namespace Base_MicroService
{
public class Class1
{
}
}

Now, let's install our NuGet packages that we will use. First up is an open source package called CacheManager. This will...