AutoMapper AutoMapper 16.1 and MediatR 14.1 Released Today I released AutoMapper 16.1 and MediatR 14.1 (as part of now regular quarterly releases): * AutoMapper Release Notes * MediatR Release Notes AutoMapper added some interesting features, allowing for factories and conditions to use dependencies (previously only allowing Func-based callbacks. On the MediatR side, we added support for more
AutoMapper AutoMapper 16.0.0 and MediatR 14.0.0 Released with .NET 10 Support With the release of .NET, we've released updated packages of AutoMapper and MediatR targeting .NET 10 (and all supported versions of .NET and 4.x of .NET Framework). From this release forward, we're aligning to major release cadences of .NET since this also means upping our
AutoMapper AutoMapper 15.1 and MediatR 13.1 Released Starting a new policy of regular quarterly releases, today I pushed out new versions of AutoMapper and MediatR: * AutoMapper 15.1.0 Release Notes * MediatR 13.1.0 Release Notes The previous versions restored netstandard2.0 support across the board. In these releases, I'm including first-class support for
AutoMapper AutoMapper and MediatR Roadmaps One of my main goals of commercialization of AutoMapper and MediatR was being able to finally invest time in these projects where basically all new work stopped when I lost corporate sponsorship. I wanted to take some time to share where I'd like to take these projects now
AutoMapper AutoMapper and MediatR Commercial Editions Launch Today Today I'm excited to announce the official launch and release of the commercial editions of AutoMapper and MediatR. Both of these libraries have moved under their new corporate owner (me), Lucky Penny Software. I formed this company to house these projects separate from my consulting company, but it&
AutoMapper AutoMapper and MediatR Licensing Update In my last post, I shared the news that I've decided to take a commercialization route for AutoMapper and MediatR to ensure their long-term success. While that post was heavy on the motivation, it was intentionally light on the details. I did share that I wanted to be
AutoMapper Featured AutoMapper and MediatR Going Commercial Yes, another one of "those posts". But tl;dr: In order to ensure the long-term sustainability of my OSS projects, I will be commercializing AutoMapper and MediatR. I did not post this on April 1st for obvious reasons. But first a little background on how I got to
MediatR MediatR 12.5.0 Released I pushed out MediatR 12.5 today: * Release Notes * NuGet This is mainly a regular minor release with a couple extra interesting features: * Adding convenience method to register open behaviors * Better cancellation token support (it's passed now everywhere including behaviors) And some other cleanup items as well. Enjoy!
AutoMapper AutoMapper 14.0 Released I pushed out version 14.0 (!) of AutoMapper over the weekend: * Release notes * NuGet This release targets .NET 8 (up from .NET 6 from the previous release). It's mainly a bug fix release, with some quality-of-life improvements in configuration validation where we gather up all the possible validation
NServiceBus Integrating the Particular Service Platform with Aspire I've been playing around with Aspire for a bit mainly to understand "is this a thing I should care about?" and part of what I wanted to do is take a complex "hello world" distributed system and convert it to Aspire. Along the way,
ASP.NET Core Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Turning Off the Lights Posts in this series: * Intro * Cataloging * Empty Proxy * Shared Library * Our First Controller * Migrating Initial Business Logic * Our First Views * Session State * Hangfire * Authentication * Middleware * Turning Off the Lights In the last post, we looked at migrating our middleware, which we tackle in an as-needed basis. When a controller needs
Training Upcoming Training on DDD with Vertical Slice Architecture in Munich I've got another training event coming up focusing on Domain-Driven Design with Vertical Slice Architecture in Munich on October 21-23rd. A little different than the previous times I've given this course is an option for either a 2-day or 3-day version. I had received feedback that
ASP.NET Core Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Middleware Posts in this series: * Intro * Cataloging * Empty Proxy * Shared Library * Our First Controller * Migrating Initial Business Logic * Our First Views * Session State * Hangfire * Authentication * Middleware * Turning Off the Lights In the last post, we looked at tackling probably the most important pieces of middleware - authentication. But many ASP.NET
Training Vertical Slice Architecture Training Course in July in the Netherlands The last training course in Zurich was a success, in that no laptops were harmed. I think. I put a poll out on where I should do the training next and quite a few folks suggested the Netherlands. I'm happy to announce that the next VSA course will
ASP.NET Core Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Authentication Posts in this series: * Intro * Cataloging * Empty Proxy * Shared Library * Our First Controller * Migrating Initial Business Logic * Our First Views * Session State * Hangfire * Authentication * Middleware * Turning Off the Lights Of all the topics in .NET migration, authentication, like always, is the one that is most characterized by "It Depends&
Training Upcoming Training on Modern .NET with Vertical Slice Architecture Something new I'm starting this year is a two-day course on Modern .NET systems with Vertical Slice Architecture. It contains a lot of topics that I've consulted with organizations and built systems around for around over a decade now, and I wanted to wrap my learnings
AutoMapper AutoMapper 13.0 Released Today I pushed out AutoMapper 13.0 (is that too many...?): * Release Notes * Changelog * NuGet * Upgrade Guide Probably the biggest change with this release is folding in Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection support directly. The AutoMapper.Extensions.Microsoft.DependencyInjection package is deprecated as a result. Side note, the docs were messed up
ASP.NET Core Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Hangfire Posts in this series: * Intro * Cataloging * Empty Proxy * Shared Library * Our First Controller * Migrating Initial Business Logic * Our First Views * Session State * Hangfire * Authentication * Middleware * Turning Off the Lights In the last post, we encountered our first instance of shared runtime data between our different ASP.NET 4.8 and
ASP.NET Core Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Session State Posts in this series: * Intro * Cataloging * Empty Proxy * Shared Library * Our First Controller * Migrating Initial Business Logic * Our First Views * Session State * Hangfire * Authentication * Middleware * Turning Off the Lights Believe it or not, things have been relatively simple so far. In the next few posts, we'll get to
ASP.NET Core Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Our First Views Posts in this series: * Intro * Cataloging * Empty Proxy * Shared Library * Our First Controller * Migrating Initial Business Logic * Our First Views * Session State * Hangfire * Authentication * Middleware * Turning Off the Lights Back when we looked at our first controller, we tried out the "automatic" migration and the controllers migrated just
ASP.NET Core Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Migrating Initial Business Logic Posts in this series: * Intro * Cataloging * Empty Proxy * Shared Library * Our First Controller * Migrating Initial Business Logic * Our First Views * Session State * Hangfire * Authentication * Middleware * Turning Off the Lights In the last post we moved just our initial controller over but none of the code used by the controller yet.
ASP.NET Core Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Our First Controller Posts in this series: * Intro * Cataloging * Empty Proxy * Shared Library * Our First Controller * Migrating Initial Business Logic * Our First Views * Session State * Hangfire * Authentication * Middleware * Turning Off the Lights In the last post, we prepped for our first set of pages migrated by extracting common logic into a shared library.
ASP.NET Core Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Shared Library Posts in this series: * Intro * Cataloging * Empty Proxy * Shared Library * Our First Controller * Migrating Initial Business Logic * Our First Views * Session State * Hangfire * Authentication * Middleware * Turning Off the Lights In the previous post, we established a beachhead with a completely empty proxy application to prepare for migrating controllers incrementally all
ASP.NET Core Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Empty Proxy Posts in this series: * Intro * Cataloging * Empty Proxy * Shared Library * Our First Controller * Migrating Initial Business Logic * Our First Views * Session State * Hangfire * Authentication * Middleware * Turning Off the Lights In the previous post, we looked at techniques for determining the size and scope of our .NET migration effort, as well
ASP.NET Core Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Cataloging Posts in this series: * Intro * Cataloging * Empty Proxy * Shared Library * Our First Controller * Migrating Initial Business Logic * Our First Views * Session State * Hangfire * Authentication * Middleware * Turning Off the Lights When I talk with folks about modernization, inevitably the question comes up "OK but how much is it going to