Category ASP.NET Core
Anti-Forgery Validation with ASP.NET Core MVC and Angular
This article shows how API requests from an Angular SPA inside an ASP.NET Core MVC application can be protected against XSRF by adding an anti-forgery cookie. This is required, if using Angular, when using cookies to persist the auth token. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreMvcAngular Blogs in this Series Using Angular in an ASP.NET Core View with Webpack […]
Using Angular in an ASP.NET Core View with Webpack
This article shows how Angular can be run inside an ASP.NET Core MVC view using Webpack to build the Angular application. By using Webpack, the Angular application can be built using the AOT and Angular lazy loading features and also profit from the advantages of using a server side rendered view. If you prefer to […]
ASP.NET Core IdentityServer4 Resource Owner Password Flow with custom UserRepository
This article shows how a custom user store or repository can be used in IdentityServer4. This can be used for an existing user management system which doesn’t use Identity or request user data from a custom source. The Resource Owner Flow using refresh tokens is used to access the protected data on the resource server. […]
Implementing OpenID Code Flow with PKCE using OpenIddict and Angular
This article shows how to implement the OpenID Connect Code Flow with PKCE using OpenIddict hosted in an ASP.NET Core application, an ASP.NET Core Web API and an Angular application as the client. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreOpeniddict 2021-12-24 Updated to ASP.NET Core 6, Angular 13 2020-12-26 Updated to ASP.NET Core 5, Angular 11, OpenIddict 3 2017-05-27 Updated […]
.NET Core, ASP.NET Core logging with NLog and PostgreSQL
This article shows how .NET Core or ASP.NET Core applications can log to a PostgreSQL database using NLog. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreNlog 2020-01-12 Updated to .NET Core 3.1, NLog.Web.AspNetCore 4.9.0 2018-04-04 Updated to NLog.Web.AspNetCore 4.5.1, ASP.NET Core 2.0 Other posts in this series: ASP.NET Core logging with NLog and Microsoft SQL Server ASP.NET Core logging with NLog […]
Testing an ASP.NET Core MVC Protobuf API using HTTPClient and xUnit
The article shows how to test an ASP.NET Core MVC API using xUnit and a HTTPClient client using Protobuf for the content formatters. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreMvcProtobufFormatters Posts in this series: ASP.NET Core Using Protobuf Formatters Testing an ASP.NET Core MVC Protobuf API using HTTPClient and xUnit 2019-01-30 Updated to ASP.NET Core 2.2 2017-08-17 Updated ASP.NET Core […]
.NET Core logging to MySQL using NLog
This article shows how to log to MySQL in a .NET Core application using NLog. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreNlog 2020-01-12 Updated to .NET Core 3.1, NLog.Web.AspNetCore 4.9.0 2018-04-04 Updated to NLog.Web.AspNetCore 4.5.1, ASP.NET Core 2.0 NLog posts in this series: ASP.NET Core logging with NLog and Microsoft SQL Server ASP.NET Core logging with NLog and Elasticsearch Settings […]
Implementing an Audit Trail using ASP.NET Core and Elasticsearch
This article shows how an audit trail can be implemented in ASP.NET Core which saves the audit documents to Elasticsearch using the Elastic.Clients.Elasticsearch Nuget package. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreElasticsearchAuditTrail History Should I just use a logger? Depends. If you just need to save requests, responses and application events, then a logger would be a better solution for […]
Docker compose with ASP.NET Core, EF Core and the PostgreSQL image
This article show how an ASP.NET Core application with a PostgreSQL database can be setup together using docker as the deployment containers for both web and database parts of the application. docker-compose is used to connect the 2 containers and the application is build using Visual Studio 2017. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCorePostgreSQLDocker Setting up the PostgreSQL docker […]
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