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Carl-Hugo Marcotte
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Carl-Hugo Marcotte is a software craftsman who has developed digital products professionally since 2005, while his coding journey started around 1989 for fun. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science. He has acquired a solid background in software architecture and expertise in ASP.NET Core through creating a wide range of web and cloud applications, from custom e-commerce websites to enterprise applications. He served many customers as an independent consultant, taught programming, and is now a Principal Architect at Export Development Canada. Passionate about C#, ASP.NET Core, AI, automation, and Cloud computing, he fosters collaboration and the open-source ethos, sharing his expertise with the tech community.
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Using MediatR as a mediator

In this section, we are exploring MediatR, an open source mediator implementation.

What is MediatR? Let’s start with its maker’s description from its GitHub repository:

”Simple, unambitious mediator implementation in .NET”

MediatR is a simple but very powerful tool doing in-process communication through messaging. It supports a request/response flow through commands, queries, notifications, and events, synchronously and asynchronously.

We can install the NuGet package using the .NET CLI: dotnet add package MediatR.

Now that I have quickly introduced the tool, we are going to explore the migration of our Clean Architecture sample but, instead, use MediatR to dispatch the StocksController requests to the core use cases. We use a similar pattern with MediatR to what we built in the CQS project.

Why migrate our Clean Architecture sample? The primary reason we are building the same project...

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Carl-Hugo Marcotte

Carl-Hugo Marcotte is a software craftsman who has developed digital products professionally since 2005, while his coding journey started around 1989 for fun. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science. He has acquired a solid background in software architecture and expertise in ASP.NET Core through creating a wide range of web and cloud applications, from custom e-commerce websites to enterprise applications. He served many customers as an independent consultant, taught programming, and is now a Principal Architect at Export Development Canada. Passionate about C#, ASP.NET Core, AI, automation, and Cloud computing, he fosters collaboration and the open-source ethos, sharing his expertise with the tech community.
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