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 […]

This article shows how to implement the OpenID Connect Implicit Flow using Angular. This previous blog implemented the OAuth2 Implicit Flow which is not an authentication protocol. The OpenID Connect specification for Implicit Flow can be found here. Code: VS2017 msbuild | VS2015 project.json History: 2017.03.18: Updated to angular 2.4.10, oidc client validation Full history: […]

This article shows how authorization policies can be used together with IdentityServer4. The policies are configured on the resource server and the ASP.NET Core IdentityServer4 configures the user claims to match these. The resource server is also setup to encrypt a ‘Description’ field in the SQLite database, so it cannot be read by opening the […]

This article shows how to use a javascript Plotly Bar Chart in Angular to display data from an ASP.NET Core 1.0 MVC application. The server uses Elasticsearch as persistence and uses it to retrieve the aggregated data and return it to the UI. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AngularPlotlyAspNetCore 2016.07.05: Updated to ASP.NET Core RTM and ElasticsearchCrud 2.3.3.1 2016.05.20: […]

This article shows how to use SQL localization in ASP.NET Core using an SQL database. The SQL localization in the demo uses Entity Framework Core to access a SQLite database. This can be configured to use any EF core provider. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreLocalization Library: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreLocalization/tree/master/src/Localization.SqlLocalizer NuGet package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Localization.SqlLocalizer/ Documentation: http://localizationsqllocalizer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Posts in this series ASP.NET Core […]