Category .NET Core

Using Azure Service Bus Queues with ASP.NET Core Services

This article shows how to implement two ASP.NET Core API applications to communicate with each other using Azure Service Bus. The ASP.NET Core APIs are implemented with Swagger support and uses an Azure Service Bus Queue to send data from one service to the other ASP.NET Core application. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreServiceBus Posts in this series: History […]

gRPC Bi-directional streaming with Razor Pages and a Hosted Service gRPC client

This article shows how a Bi-directional streaming gRPC service could be implemented using an .NET Core Hosted Service as a gRPC client, and a Razor Page to send Bi-directional streaming messages to the servers connected clients. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/Secure_gRpc Posts in this series Security Experiments with gRPC and ASP.NET Core 5 Running Razor Pages and a […]

Running Local Azure Functions in Visual Studio with HTTPS

This article shows how to setup a Visual Studio Azure Functions project to work with HTTPS for local development. HTTP is configured per default and not HTTPS. The command line arguments need to be set correctly, and then the Azure Functions can be started in Visual Studio with HTTPS and take advantage of the break […]

Running Razor Pages and a gRPC service in a single ASP.NET Core application

This article shows how ASP.NET Core Razor Pages can be run in the same application as a gRPC service. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/Secure_gRpc Posts in this series Security Experiments with gRPC and ASP.NET Core 5 Running Razor Pages and a gRPC service in a single ASP.NET Core application gRPC Bi-directional streaming with Razor Pages and a Hosted […]

Security Experiments with gRPC and ASP.NET Core 5

This article shows how a gRPC service could implement OAuth2 security using IdentityServer4 as the token service. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/Secure_gRpc Posts in this series Security Experiments with gRPC and ASP.NET Core 5 Running Razor Pages and a gRPC service in a single ASP.NET Core application gRPC Bi-directional streaming with Razor Pages and a Hosted Service gRPC […]

ASP.NET Core OAuth Device Flow Client with IdentityServer4

This article shows how to implement the OAuth 2.0 Device Flow for Browserless and Input Constrained Devices in an ASP.NET Core application. The tokens are then saved to a cookie for later usage. IdentityServer4 is used to implement the secure token server. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreHybridFlowWithApi History 2020-12-11 Updated to .NET 5 2019-10-06 Updated to .NET Core […]

Auto Generated .NET API Clients using NSwag and Swashbuckle Swagger

This article shows how auto generated code for a C# HTTP API client could be created using Swagger and NSwag . The API was created using ASP.NET Core MVC. Code https://github.com/damienbod/csvSwaggerExample Create the API using ASP.NET Core and Swashbuckle Swagger The API is created using ASP.NET Core with Swashbuckle. Add the required Nuget packages to […]

Securing a Vue.js app using OpenID Connect Code Flow with PKCE and IdentityServer4

This article shows how to setup a Vue.js SPA application to authenticate and authorize using OpenID Connect Code flow with PKCE. This is good solution when implementing SPA apps requesting data from APIs on separate domains. The oidc-client-js npm package is used to implement the client side authentication logic and validation logic. IdentityServer4 and ASP.NET […]

Deploying ASP.NET Core App Services using Azure Key Vault and Azure Resource Manager templates

This article shows how to create an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template which uses an Azure Key Vault. The ARM template is used to deploy an ASP.NET Core application as an Azure App Service. By using an Azure Resource Group project, the secret app settings can be fetched from the Azure Key Vault during deployment, […]

Using Azure Key Vault with ASP.NET Core and Azure App Services

This article shows how to use an Azure Key Vault with an ASP.NET Core application deployed as an Azure App Service. The Azure App Service can use the system assigned identity to access the Key Vault. This needs to be configured in the Key Vault access policies using the service principal. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreBackChannelLogout Posts in […]