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Windows 10 has something called Windows Subsystem for Linux and this something enables us to run Linux applications on Windows 10 using Linux without need for Hyper-V or other virtual machines. When building multi-platform applications like my open-source TemperatureStation solution then having Linux right there for testing comes very handy. This blog post shows how to get Linux running on Windows, how to install .NET Core and how to run web applications on Linux. 

Drum is a little library for building URIs to ASP.NET Web API actions, using direct routes and lambda expressions. It provides an alternative to the UrlHelper class. Instead of requiring a route name and a set of name-value pairs, Drum allows the creation of URIs using actions invocations.

// using UrlHelper 
var uri1 = _urlHelper.Link("GetPaged", new { page = 0, count = 10 });

// using UriMaker
var uri2 = _uriMaker.UriFor(c => c.GetPaged(0, 10));

where GetPaged is a Web API controller action

[RoutePrefix("api/UriMakerTests/resources")]
public class ResourceController : ApiController
{
    [Route("", Name="GetPaged")]
    public HttpResponseMessage GetPaged(int page, int count) {...}

    ...
}

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