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 […]

This article shows how to use an ActionFilter to validate the model from a HTTP POST request in an ASP.NET Core MVC application. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AngularAutoSaveCommands History 2021-01-20: Updated to ASP.NET Core 5, Angular CLI 11.0.9 2019-07-31: Updated to ASP.NET Core 3.0 Preview 7, Updated to Angular 8.1.3 2019-02-16: Updated to Angular 7.2.4, ASP.NET Core 2.2 […]

This article shows how to implement auto save, Undo and Redo commands in an Angular SPA. The Undo and the Redo commands work for the whole application and not just for single components. The Angular app uses an ASP.NET Core service implemented in the previous blog. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AngularAutoSaveCommands History 2021-01-20: Updated to ASP.NET Core 5, […]

The article shows how to implement UNDO, REDO functionality in an ASP.NET Core application using EFCore and MS SQL Server. This is the first blog in a 3 part series. The second blog will implement the UI using Angular 2 and the third article will improve the concurrent stacks with max limits to prevent memory […]

This article shows how to use MySQL with ASP.NET Core 3.1 using Entity Framework Core. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreMultipleProject Posts in this series: Experiments with Entity Framework Core and ASP.NET Core MVC ASP.NET Core with PostgreSQL and Entity Framework Core ASP.NET Core with MySQL and Entity Framework Core 2020-01-10: Updated to ASP.NET Core 3.1 2018-12-05: Updated to […]

This article shows how to Log to Elasticsearch using NLog in an ASP.NET Core application. NLog is a free open-source logging for .NET. 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 2017.02.08 Updated to NLog.Web.AspNetCore 4.3.0 and VS2017 RC3 17.12.2016 Updated to ASP.NET Core 1.1 […]

This article shows how to setup logging in an ASP.NET Core application which logs to a Microsoft SQL Server 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 2017-02-08 Updated to NLog.Web.AspNetCore 4.3.0 and VS2017 RC3 2016-12-17 Updated to ASP.NET Core 1.1 NLog posts […]

This article shows how localized data can be imported and exported using Localization.SqlLocalizer. The data is exported as CSV using the Formatter defined in the WebApiContrib.Core.Formatter.Csv package. The data can be imported using a file upload. This makes it possible to export the applications localized data to a CSV format. A translation company can then […]