Tag Archives: API
Improving application security in an ASP.NET Core API using HTTP headers – Part 3
This article shows how to improve the security of an ASP.NET Core Web API application by adding security headers to all HTTP API responses. The security headers are added using the NetEscapades.AspNetCore.SecurityHeaders Nuget package from Andrew Lock. The headers are used to protect the session, not for authorization. The application uses Microsoft.Identity.Web to authorize the […]
Securing an ASP.NET Core app and web API using windows authentication
This post shows how an ASP.NET Core Web API and an ASP.NET Core Razor page application can be implemented to use windows authentication. The Razor page application uses Javascript to display an autocomplete control which gets the data indirectly from the service API which is protected using windows authentication. The Razor Page application uses the […]
Retry Error Handling for Activities and Orchestrations in Azure Durable Functions
Azure Durable Functions provides a rich set of Error Handling APIs. This post shows how Activities or Sub-Orchestrations can be re-run with the different retry options. Activities in a workflow can call an API or run a code flow which might fail due to connection problems, network timeouts or other similar problems. If it was […]
Waiting for Azure Durable Functions to complete
The article show how an Azure Durable Function can be used to process a HTTP API request which waits for the completion result. This can be required when you have no control over the client application calling the API and the process requires asynchronous operations like further API calls and so on. The Azure Durable […]
Using External Inputs in Azure Durable functions
This post shows how to implement an Azure Durable function flow with an external HTTP API input. The flow is started using a HTTP request, runs an activity, waits for the external input from a HTTP API which could be any Azure function input and then runs a second activity. The application is implemented using […]
Create, Build, Deploy and Configure an Azure App Service with Azure DevOps and Azure CLI
This post shows how to create, build, deploy and configure an Azure App Service using Azure DevOps, Azure CLI and Powershell. An Azure Service is created in Azure using Azure DevOps with Azure CLI and Powershell. The Azure App Service is created and built using ASP.NET Core and Visual Studio. This solution is deployed to […]
System Testing ASP.NET Core APIs using XUnit
This article shows how an ASP.NET Core API could be tested using system tests implemented using XUnit. The API is protected using JWT Bearer token authorization, and the API uses a secure token server to validate the API requests. When running the tests, the access token needs to be requested, and used to access the […]
Using an OData Client with an ASP.NET Core API
The article shows how to implement an OData client from an ASP.NET Core application. Bearer token authorization is used to secure the API. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreOData This blog is part 2 from this blog: Part 1: OData with ASP.NET Core History 2020-11-22 Updated .NET 5 2020-07-06 Updated .NET Core 3.1, IdentityServer4 4.0.2 Setting up the applications […]
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