As a developer/architect, you will often need to build or consume a third-party system via an API channel. In this article, we primarily focus on the best way to consume APIs to tackle network or API ...

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Using a single HttpClient in this way will keep connections open and not respect the DNS Time To Live (TTL) setting. Now the connections will never get DNS updates so the server you are talking to ...

When working in applications in ASP.NET Core you might often need to invoke the Web API action methods using HttpClient to check if the endpoints are working fine. To achieve this, you would typically ...

It's not impossible that you're accessing several different methods from the same Web Service in your application. If so, and if you're using the HttpClientFactory (and you should be), you have an ...

There's a very good chance that, every time you need to access a Web Service, you've been creating an HttpClient object and then throwing it away. Unfortunately, that's bad for your application ...

You can take advantage of HttpClientFactory to preconfigure named HttpClient instances. Note that the HttpClientFactory is a central location that can be used to register, configure, and consume ...