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 […]
This blog is a simple step through, which creates an ASP.NET Core Docker image using Visual Studio 2017, deploys it to Docker Hub and then deploys the image to Azure. Thanks to Malte Lantin for his fantastic posts on MSDN. See the links at the end of this post. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreDockerAzureDemo 2017.02.03: Updated to VS2017 […]
This article shows how Angular lazy loading can be supported using Webpack 2 for both JIT and AOT builds. The Webpack loader angular-router-loader from Brandon Roberts is used to implement this. A big thanks to Roberto Simonetti for his help in this. Code: VS2017 angular 4.x Blogs in this series: ASP.NET Core, Angular with Webpack […]
This article shows how Angular SPA apps can be built using Visual Studio and ASP.NET Core which can be used in production. Lots of articles, blogs templates exist for ASP.NET Core and Angular but very few support Angular production builds. Although Angular is not so old, many different seeds and build templates already exist, so […]
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 is a simple guideline on how you could contribute to gitHub OSS projects using fork and upstream. This is not the only way to do it. git Extensions is used for this demo, but any git client can be used. In this example, aspnet/AspLabs from Microsoft is used as the target repository. So […]
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