This blog shows how to setup a basic ASP.NET Core 1.1 application using Visual studio 2017 and Docker. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreVS2017Docker 2017.02.03 Updated to VS2017 RC3 msbuild3 This article from Swaminathan Vetri demonstates how to setup everything for an ASP.NET Core 1.0 application. Now the application needs to be updated to ASP.NET Core 1.1. Open the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This article shows how a website search could be implemented using Angular, ASP.NET Core and Elasticsearch. Most users expect autocomplete and a flexible search like some of known search websites. When the user enters a char in the search input field, an autocomplete using a shingle token filter with a terms aggregation used to suggest […]
This article shows how autocomplete could be implemented in Angular using ASP.NET Core MVC as a data service. The API uses Elasticsearch to query the data requests. ng2-completer is used to implement the Angular autocomplete functionality. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/Angular2AutoCompleteAspNetCoreElasticsearch 2017.02.10: Updated to VS2017, Angular 2.4.6 and webpack 2.2.1 2017.01.07: Updated to csproj, webpack 2.2.0-rc.3, angular 2.4.1 […]
This post shows how to use SASS with Webpack and Angular 2 in Visual Studio. I had various problems trying to get this to work from Visual Studio using a Webpack build. The following is a solution which works, but not the only one. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/Angular2WebpackVisualStudio 2017.02.08: Updated webpack 2.2.1, angular 2.4.6 2017.01.07: Updated webpack […]
This article shows how IdentityServer4 with Identity, a data Web API, and an Angular SPA could be setup inside a single ASP.NET Core project. The application uses the OpenID Connect Implicit Flow with reference tokens to access the API. The Angular application uses webpack to build. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNet5IdentityServerAngularImplicitFlow History: 2019-09-20: Updated ASP.NET Core 3.0, Angular […]
This article shows how the NLog connection string for the DatabaseTarget can be configured in the appsettings.json in an ASP.NET Core project and not the XML nlog.config file. All the NLog target properties can be configured in code if required and not just in the NLog XML configuration file. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreNlog 2020-01-12 Updated to .NET […]
The article shows how to fully logout from IdentityServer4 using an OpenID Connect Implicit Flow. Per design when using an access token to use protected data from a resource server, even if the client has logged out from the server, the access token can be used so long it is valid (AccessTokenLifetime) as it is […]
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