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 […]
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 […]
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