This article shows how application configurations can be injected and used directly in razor views in an ASP.NET Core MVC application. This is useful when an SPA requires application URLs which are different with each deployment and need to be deployed as configurations in a json or xml file. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreInjectConfigurationRazor 2019-07-29 Updated to ASP.NET […]

This article shows how to import and export csv data in an ASP.NET Core application. The InputFormatter and the OutputFormatter classes are used to convert the csv data to the C# model classes. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreCsvImportExport 2019-09-14: Updated to ASP.NET Core 3.0 2019-02-15: Updated to ASP.NET Core 2.2 2018-07-09: Updated to ASP.NET Core 2.1 2017-10-29: Support […]

This article shows how SQL localized data can be added to a database using Angular forms which can then be displayed without restarting the application. The ASP.NET Core localization is implemented using Localization.SqlLocalizer. This NuGet package is used to save and retrieve the dynamic localized data. This makes it possible to add localized data at […]

This article shows how localized data can be created and used in a running ASP.NET Core application without restarting. The Localization.SqlLocalizer package is used to to get and localize the data, and also to save the resources to a database. Any database which is supported by Entity Framework Core can be used. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AngularLocalizationAspNetCore 2018-08-01: […]

This article shows how localization can be implemented in Angular for static UI translations and also for localized data requested from a MVC service. The MVC service is implemented using ASP.NET Core. This post is the first of a 3 part series. The following posts will implement the service to use a database and also […]

This article shows how the Plotly javascript library can be used inside an Angular 2 Component. The Angular 2 component can then be used anywhere inside an application using only the Angular Component selector. The data used for the chart is provided in an ASP.NET Core MVC application using Elasticsearch. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AngularComponentPlotly 2017.02.07: Updated Updated […]

This article shows how an Angular SPA client can download files using an access token without passing it to the resource server in the URL. The access token is only used in the HTTP Header. If the access token is sent in the URL, this will be saved in server logs, routing logs, browser history, […]

This article shows how Angular 2 child routing can be set up together with Angular 2 components. An Angular 2 component can contain it’s own routing, which makes it easy to reuse or test the components in an application. Code: Angular 2 app host with ASP.NET Core 2017.01.07: Updated to Angular 2.4.1, Webpack 2.2.0-rc.3 2016.11.07: […]

This article shows how a secure file download can be implemented using Angular 2 with an OpenID Connect Implicit Flow using IdentityServer4. The resource server needs to process the access token in the query string and the NuGet package IdentityServer4.AccessTokenValidation makes it very easy to support this. The default security implementation jwtBearerHandler reads the token […]

This article shows how to implement an OpenID Connect Implicit Flow client in Angular. The Angular client is implemented in Typescript and uses IdentityServer4 and an ASP.NET core 2.0 resource server. The OpenID Connect specification for Implicit Flow can be found here. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNet5IdentityServerAngularImplicitFlow History: 2019-09-20: Updated ASP.NET Core 3.0, Angular 8.2.6 2018-12-05: Updated to […]