This article shows how Javascript packages, files, CSS files could be built and bundled in an ASP.NET Core MVC or Razor Page application. The Javascript packages are loaded using npm in which most Javascript projects are deployed. No CDNs are used, only local files so that all external URLs, non self URL links can be […]
This article shows how an ASP.NET Core API could be tested using system tests implemented using XUnit. The API is protected using JWT Bearer token authorization, and the API uses a secure token server to validate the API requests. When running the tests, the access token needs to be requested, and used to access the […]
This article shows how to create self signed certificates and use these for chained certificate authentication in ASP.NET Core. By using chained certificates, each client application can use a unique certificate which was created from a root CA directly, or an intermediate certificate which was created from the root CA. The clients can then be […]
This article shows how Certificate Authentication can be implemented in ASP.NET Core 3.1. In this example, a shared self signed certificate is used to authenticate one application calling an API on a second ASP.NET Core application. Code https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreCertificateAuth Posts in this series Certificate Authentication in ASP.NET Core 3.1 (Self Signed) Using Chained Certificates for Certificate […]
This article shows how to implement an Azure Active Directory login for an ASP.NET Core application. The Microsoft identity platform (v2.0) is now Open ID Connect certified and the Microsoft Account logins can now be replaced with this. By using OpenID Connect instead of Microsoft Accounts, it is easy to force a login, or a […]
This article shows how to persist access tokens for a trusted ASP.NET Core application which needs to access secure APIs. These tokens which are persisted are not meant for public clients, but are used for the service to service communication. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreHybridFlowWithApi Posts in this series: Securing an ASP.NET Core MVC application which uses a […]
This post shows how to consume Azure service bus topic subscriptions in an Azure function. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreServiceBus Posts in this series: History Processing the Azure Service Bus Messages in an Azure Function Setting this up could not be easier. In Visual Studio, create a new Azure function project, and then create a new Azure function […]
This article shows how to use Entity Framework Core together with an Azure Service Bus receiver in ASP.NET Core. This message handler is a singleton and so requires that an Entity Framework Core context inside this singleton is not registered as a scoped service but created and disposed for each message event. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreServiceBus Posts […]
This article shows how to implement Azure Service Bus filters for topic subscriptions used in an ASP.NET Core API application. The application uses the Microsoft.Azure.ServiceBus NuGet package for all the Azure Service Bus client logic. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreServiceBus Posts in this series: History Azure Service Bus Topic Sender The topic sender from the previous post was […]
This article shows how to implement two ASP.NET Core API applications to communicate with each other using Azure Service Bus Topics. This post continues on from the last article, this time using topics and subscriptions to communicate instead of a queue. By using a topic with subscriptions, and message can be sent to n receivers. […]
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