Category Web
Auto redirect to an STS server in an Angular app using oidc Implicit Flow
This article shows how to implement an auto redirect in an Angular application, if using the OIDC Implicit Flow with an STS server. When a user opens the application, it is sometimes required that the user is automatically redirected to the login page on the STS server. This can be tricky to implement, as you […]
Implementing Two-factor authentication with IdentityServer4 and Twilio
This article shows how to implement two factor authentication using Twilio and IdentityServer4 using Identity. On the Microsoft’s Two-factor authentication with SMS documentation, Twilio and ASPSMS are promoted, but any SMS provider can be used. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreID4External 2017-09-23 Updated to ASP.NET Core 2.0 Setting up Twilio Create an account and login to https://www.twilio.com/ Now create […]
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 […]
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 […]
Angular Lazy Loading with Webpack 3
This article shows how Angular lazy loading can be supported using Webpack 2 for both JIT and AOT builds. The Webpack loader angular-router-loader from Brandon Roberts is used to implement this. A big thanks to Roberto Simonetti for his help in this. Code: VS2017 angular 4.x Blogs in this series: ASP.NET Core, Angular with Webpack […]
Building production ready Angular apps with Visual Studio and ASP.NET Core
This article shows how Angular SPA apps can be built using Visual Studio and ASP.NET Core which can be used in production. Lots of articles, blogs templates exist for ASP.NET Core and Angular but very few support Angular production builds. Although Angular is not so old, many different seeds and build templates already exist, so […]
Implementing a Client White-list using ASP.NET Core Middleware
This article shows how a client safe-list could be implemented using ASP.NET Core middleware checking the Remote IP address of the request. If the client IP is on the safe-list, no restrictions exist. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/ClientIpAspNetCoreIIS History 2018-08-30 Updated to .NET core 2.1 and added support for IP6 The middleware uses an admin white-list parameter from […]
EF Core diagnosis and features with MS SQL Server
This article shows how Entity Framework Core messages can be logged, and compared using the SQL Profiler and also some of the cool new 1.1 features, but not all. All information can be found on the links at the bottom and especially the excellent docs for EF Core. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/EFCoreFeaturesAndDiag project.json with EF Core packages […]
Extending Identity in IdentityServer4 to manage users in ASP.NET Core
This article shows how Identity can be extended and used together with IdentityServer4 to implement application specific requirements. The application allows users to register and can access the application for 7 days. After this, the user cannot log in. Any admin can activate or deactivate a user using a custom user management API. Extra properties […]
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