This article shows how to implement a silent token renew in Angular using IdentityServer4 as the security token service server. The SPA Angular client implements the OpenID Connect Implicit Flow ‘id_token token’. When the id_token expires, the client requests new tokens from the server, so that the user does not need to authorise again. Code: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
This article shows how to use elmah.io error management with an ASP.NET Core application. The error, log data is added to elmah.io using different elmah.io nuget packages, directly from ASP.NET Core and also using an NLog elmah.io target. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreElmah elmah.io is an error management system which can help you monitor, find and fix application […]
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 […]
This article shows how HMR, or Hot Module Replacement can be used together with Angular and Webpack. Code: VS2017 angular 4.x Blogs in this series: ASP.NET Core, Angular with Webpack and Visual Studio Building production ready Angular apps with Visual Studio and ASP.NET Core Angular Lazy Loading with Webpack 2 Hot Module Replacement with Angular […]
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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