Blog Posts with Tag COVID-19 Statistics Application v2

As part of my new COVID-19 application I've been writing, I had to import statistics from a data source. The COVID Tracking Project maintains daily records of various statistics regarding the pandemic for each state and at a nation level. It publishes this data as an API and also as a set of CSV files. While the API worked, it did not provide the type of extensibility I wanted in order to serve up the data. As such, I decided to read the raw data from a CSV file to import…

In web applications, it can be necessary to have tasks that run on start up of an application. In older ASP.Net, this was not as clear cut how to accomplish. In ASP.Net Core there is a clear pattern established through the IHostedService interface to make this a breeze. As part of my COVID-19 application, I had to create a few of these hosted services. For example, I had to set up my database prior to the application actually running. As this application is utilizing an in…