How-To Guides for .NET Developers

Task-oriented guides that show you how to accomplish specific goals with Granit.

Each guide assumes you have a working Granit application. If you are starting from scratch, begin with Getting Started.

Modules and endpoints

• Create a Module — build a new Granit module from scratch
• Add an Endpoint — Minimal API with validation and Problem Details
• Configure Multi-Tenancy — shared DB, per-schema, or per-database

Messaging and events

• Set Up Notifications — 6-channel notification engine
• Implement Data Import — CSV/Excel import pipeline
• Add Background Jobs — recurring and delayed jobs
• Configure Blob Storage — S3-compatible file storage
• Implement Webhooks — event delivery with retry

Features and settings

• Add Feature Flags — toggle, numeric, and selection features
• Set Up Localization — 18 cultures, source-generated keys
• Use Reference Data — i18n reference tables
• Manage Application Settings — runtime settings store

Documents and workflow

• Create Document Templates — Scriban, PDF, Excel
• Implement Workflow — FSM engine, publication lifecycle

Caching, versioning, and API

• Configure Caching — memory, Redis, FusionCache
• Add API Versioning — URL segment and header versioning
• Configure Idempotency — Idempotency-Key middleware

Security and observability

• Encrypt Sensitive Data — Vault Transit and AES-256
• Implement Audit Timeline — entity change tracking
• End-to-End Tracing — OpenTelemetry distributed tracing
• Testing — unit and integration test patterns with GranitTestFixture

AI and tooling

• Use with AI Assistants — ingest Granit docs into ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot