This article explores how to setup an OData API with ASP.NET Core. The application uses Entity Framework Core with a database first approach using the adventureworks 2016 Microsoft SQL Database. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreOData Part 2: Using an OData Client with an ASP.NET Core API Using an OData Client with an ASP.NET Core API History 2020-11-22 Updated .NET […]
This article shows how to use MigraDoc in ASP.NET Core to create PDF documents. In the last blog post, Creating a PDF in ASP.NET Core, PDFSharp was used to create the PDF. MigraDoc is used on top on this, which makes it easy to create tables and other document layouts. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCorePdf Setting up the […]
This article shows how to create PDF files in ASP.NET Core. I decided I wanted to use PDFSharp, because I like this library, but no NuGet packages exist for .NET Standard 2.0. YetaWF created a port for this, which was used 1:1 in this example, without changes. It would be great to see PDFSharp as […]
This article explains how to deploy an ASP.NET Core application to a Windows hosted IIS Server. Most applications are now deployed to a cloud hosted solutions like Azure App Services, but sometimes it is required to deploy to an IIS. I ran into an number of issues, which weren’t very well documented, which surprised me […]
This article shows how to setup a multi-tenant Azure AD external login for IdentityServer4 which uses ASP.NET Core Identity. Code: IdentityServer4 app with Identity Setting up the Azure AD Application registration for multiple tenants An Azure AD Application registration needs to be setup for the Active Directory tenant. Login to the Azure portal and switch […]
Ben Cull did an excellent tag helper which makes it easy to set the active class element using the route data from an ASP.NET Core MVC application. This blog uses this and extends the implementation with support for Razor Pages. Original blog: Is Active Route Tag Helper for ASP.NET MVC Core by Ben Cull The […]
This article shows how to disable parts of ASP.NET Core Identity in a Web Application. In the ASP.NET Core Identity, the Identiy UI is deployed as part of the NuGet package. So per default everything is enabled and you have to opt-out, unlike the older versions which was opt-in. If you are not careful, this […]
This article shows how to update part of an ASP.NET Core MVC view which uses forms. Sometimes, within a form, some values depend on other ones, and cannot be updated on the client side. Changes in the form input values sends a partial view update which updates the rest of the dependent values, but not […]
The article shows how to localize the new Identity Pages in an ASP.NET Core application. The views, code from the pages, and models require localized strings and are read from global identity resource files. This makes it easy to add translations for further languages, and prevents duplication. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCorePagesWebpack The application is setup using this […]
This article shows how to update the default Identity Pages template to use Bootstrap 4. You need to scaffold the views into the project, and change the layouts and the views to use the new Bootstrap 4 classes and javascript. The base project is built using Webpack and npm. Bootstrap 4 is loaded from npm, […]
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