My road for the series is as follows,

    RESTful Day #1: Enterprise level application architecture with Web APIs using Entity Framework, Generic Repository pattern and Unit of Work.
    RESTful Day #2: Inversion of control using dependency injection in Web APIs using Unity Container and Bootstrapper.
    RESTful Day #3: Resolve dependency of dependencies using Inversion of Control and dependency injection in Asp.net Web APIs with Unity Container and Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF).
    RESTful Day #4: Custom URL Re-Writing/Routing using Attribute Routes in MVC 4 Web APIs.
    RESTful Day #5: Basic Authentication and Token based custom Authorization in Web APIs using Action Filters.
    RESTful Day #6: Request logging and Exception handing/logging in Web APIs using Action Filters, Exception Filters and nLog.
    RESTful Day #7: Unit testing ASP.NET Web APIs controllers using nUnit.
    RESTful Day #8: Extending OData support in ASP.NET Web APIs.

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node -v

md \projects\node-edge-test1
cd \projects\node-edge-test1

npm install edge
npm install edge-sql

var edge = require('edge');

// The text in edge.func() is C# code
var helloWorld = edge.func('async (input) => { return input.ToString(); }');

helloWorld('Hello World!', function (error, result) {
    if (error) throw error;
    console.log(result);
});

node server.js

IF EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM sys.tables WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID('SampleUsers')) BEGIN; DROP TABLE SampleUsers; END; GO

CREATE TABLE SampleUsers ( Id INTEGER NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), FirstName VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, LastName VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, Email VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, CreateDate DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT(getdate()), PRIMARY KEY (Id) ); GO

INSERT INTO SampleUsers(FirstName,LastName,Email,CreateDate) VALUES('Orla','Sweeney','nunc@convallisincursus.ca','Apr 13, 2014');
INSERT INTO SampleUsers(FirstName,LastName,Email,CreateDate) VALUES('Zia','Pickett','porttitor.tellus.non@Duis.com','Aug 31, 2014');
INSERT INTO SampleUsers(FirstName,LastName,Email,CreateDate) VALUES('Justina','Ayala','neque.tellus.imperdiet@temporestac.com','Jul 28, 2014');
INSERT INTO SampleUsers(FirstName,LastName,Email,CreateDate) VALUES('Levi','Parrish','adipiscing.elit@velarcueu.com','Jun 21, 2014');
INSERT INTO SampleUsers(FirstName,LastName,Email,CreateDate) VALUES('Pearl','Warren','In@dignissimpharetra.org','Mar 3, 2014');

set EDGE_SQL_CONNECTION_STRING=Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=node-test;Integrated Security=True

SETX EDGE_SQL_CONNECTION_STRING "Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=node-test;Integrated Security=True"

var http = require('http');
var edge = require('edge');
var port = process.env.PORT || 8080;

var getTopUsers = edge.func('sql', function () {/*
    SELECT TOP 3 * FROM SampleUsers ORDER BY CreateDate DESC
*/});

function logError(err, res) {
    res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' });
    res.write("Error: " + err);
    res.end("");
}    

http.createServer(function (req, res) {
    res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/html' });

    getTopUsers(null, function (error, result) {
        if (error) { logError(error, res); return; }
        if (result) {
            res.write("<ul>");
            result.forEach(function(user) {
                res.write("<li>" + user.FirstName + " " + user.LastName + ": " + user.Email + "</li>");
            });
            res.end("</ul>");
        }
        else {
        }
    });
}).listen(port);
console.log("Node server listening on port " + port);

node server-sql-query.js

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace EdgeSampleLibrary
{
     public class Sample1
    {
        public async Task<object> Invoke(object input)
        {
            // Edge marshalls data to .NET using an IDictionary<string, object>
            var payload = (IDictionary<string, object>) input;
            var pageNumber = (int) payload["pageNumber"];
            var pageSize = (int) payload["pageSize"];
            return await QueryUsers(pageNumber, pageSize);
        }

        public async Task<List<SampleUser>> QueryUsers(int pageNumber, int pageSize)
        {
            // Use the same connection string env variable
            var connectionString = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("EDGE_SQL_CONNECTION_STRING");
            if (connectionString == null)
                throw new ArgumentException("You must set the EDGE_SQL_CONNECTION_STRING environment variable.");

            // Paging the result set using a common table expression (CTE).
            // You may rather do this in a stored procedure or use an 
            // ORM that supports async.
            var sql = @"
DECLARE @RowStart int, @RowEnd int;
SET @RowStart = (@PageNumber - 1) * @PageSize + 1;
SET @RowEnd = @PageNumber * @PageSize;

WITH Paging AS
(
    SELECT  ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY CreateDate DESC) AS RowNum,
            Id, FirstName, LastName, Email, CreateDate
    FROM    SampleUsers
)
SELECT  Id, FirstName, LastName, Email, CreateDate
FROM    Paging
WHERE   RowNum BETWEEN @RowStart AND @RowEnd
ORDER BY RowNum;
";
            var users = new List<SampleUser>();

            using (var cnx = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
            {
                using (var cmd = new SqlCommand(sql, cnx))
                {
                    await cnx.OpenAsync();

                    cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@PageNumber", SqlDbType.Int) { Value = pageNumber });
                    cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@PageSize", SqlDbType.Int) { Value = pageSize });

                    using (var reader = await cmd.ExecuteReaderAsync(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection))
                    {
                        while (await reader.ReadAsync())
                        {
                            var user = new SampleUser
                            {
                                Id = reader.GetInt32(0), 
                                FirstName = reader.GetString(1), 
                                LastName = reader.GetString(2), 
                                Email = reader.GetString(3), 
                                CreateDate = reader.GetDateTime(4)
                            };
                           users.Add(user);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            return users;
        } 
    }

    public class SampleUser
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string FirstName { get; set; }
        public string LastName { get; set; }
        public string Email { get; set; }
        public DateTime CreateDate { get; set; }
    }
}

[project]/bin/Debug/EdgeSampleLibrary.dll

var http = require('http');
var edge = require('edge');
var port = process.env.PORT || 8080;

// Set up the assembly to call from Node.js 
var querySample = edge.func({ assemblyFile: 'EdgeSampleLibrary.dll', typeName: 'EdgeSampleLibrary.Sample1', methodName: 'Invoke' });

function logError(err, res) { res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' }); res.write("Got error: " + err); res.end(""); }

http.createServer(function (req, res) { res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/html' });

    // This is the data we will pass to .NET
    var data = { pageNumber: 1, pageSize: 3 };

    // Invoke the .NET function
    querySample(data, function (error, result) {
        if (error) { logError(error, res); return; }
        if (result) {
            res.write("<ul>");
            result.forEach(function(user) {
                res.write("<li>" + user.FirstName + " " + user.LastName + ": " + user.Email + "</li>");
            });
            res.end("</ul>");
        }
        else {
            res.end("No results");
        }
    });

}).listen(port);

console.log("Node server listening on port " + port);

node server-dotnet-query.js

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Let’s have a look at the new features of PostSharp 6.0 :

• Support for .NET Core 2.0-2.1 and .NET Standard 2.0.
• Support for Portable PDB.
• Support for C# 7.2.
• Ending the PostSharp versioning hell side-by-side: backward compatibility within the same major version.
• Logging: robustness to faults in the logging subsystem.
• Logging: no need to initialize before the first logged method is hit.
• Caching: preventing concurrent execution (locking).
• Visual Studio tooling: support for the new CPS-based project systems.
• GDPR compliance: we no longer collect your name and email for trial, nor use unsecure HTTP, nor use non-resettable user id hashes. 

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AspNetCoreRateLimit is an ASP.NET Core rate limiting solution designed to control the rate of requests that clients can make to a Web API or MVC app based on IP address or client ID. The AspNetCoreRateLimit package contains an IpRateLimitMiddleware and a ClientRateLimitMiddleware, with each middleware you can set multiple limits for different scenarios like allowing an IP or Client to make a maximum number of calls in a time interval like per second, 15 minutes, etc. You can define these limits to address all requests made to an API or you can scope the limits to each API URL or HTTP verb and path.