Hello MK.NET folks!

After an extended Summer break we're proud to present another virtual MK .NET meetup for November.

As before, we'll be hosting on Zoom, and likely be live streaming to Twitch and YouTube too.
Please note the session will NOT be available after the meetup however.

It's been a long time in the making but we're excited to be joined by Steve Gordon who will be talking to us about .NET Core Dependency Injection.

About Steve's talk:

Have you ever wondered how a browser/client request actually results in a response from ASP.NET Core? Have you ever been constrained by the default behaviour of ASP.NET Core and wanted to change how it works? If so, then this talk is for you.

In this session, Steve will explore the lifecycle of incoming requests in ASP.NET Core, touring through the layers from Kestrel, to hosting, to middleware and then on into MVC itself. You'll see how the pieces all fit together and learn about the places where you can inject your own implementations to customise, augment and override the ASP.NET Core defaults.

Steve will show the hidden extension points that can take you to power-user levels when building your ASP.NET Core applications, such as applying custom conventions, filters and model binding behaviour. You'll leave this talk with ideas for improving your ASP.NET Core applications and reducing code by refactoring cross-cutting concerns.

Don't fight the framework, customise it!

In this session, I provide an in-depth look at how ASP.NET Core processes HTTP requests. I'll describe the flow through the application host, the Kestrel web server, middleware and finally through MVC. The intent is to use this narrative to explain some advanced features of ASP.NET Core which support customising its behaviour.

Key take-aways:

• How application hosting works
• How Kestrel receives requests from the network Socket and parses them
• How the middleware pipeline can be used to respond to requests
• How endpoint routing works
• How filters can be used to intercept and modify requests within MVC
• How MVC finally handles a request.

This session is aimed at ASP.NET Core developers of intermediate/advanced experience.

About Steve:

Steve Gordon is a Pluralsight author, Microsoft MVP, senior engineer based in the UK. He works for Elastic maintaining their .NET client libraries. Steve is passionate about community and all things .NET related, having worked with ASP.NET for over 16 years. Steve enjoys sharing his knowledge through his blog, in videos and by presenting talks at user groups and conferences. Steve is excited to be a part of the .NET community and founded .NET South East, a .NET Meetup group based in Brighton. He enjoys contributing to and maintaining OSS projects.
You can find Steve online at his blog https://www.stevejgordon.co.uk and on Twitter as @stevejgordon.
You can find Steve's Pluralsight courses at: https://www.pluralsight.com/authors/steve-gordon