Tag Archives: ASP.NET Core
OData with ASP.NET Core
This article explores how to setup an OData API with ASP.NET Core. The application uses Entity Framework Core with a database first approach using the adventureworks 2016 Microsoft SQL Database. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreOData Part 2: Using an OData Client with an ASP.NET Core API Using an OData Client with an ASP.NET Core API History 2020-11-22 Updated .NET […]
Creating a PDF in ASP.NET Core using MigraDoc PDFSharp
This article shows how to use MigraDoc in ASP.NET Core to create PDF documents. In the last blog post, Creating a PDF in ASP.NET Core, PDFSharp was used to create the PDF. MigraDoc is used on top on this, which makes it easy to create tables and other document layouts. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCorePdf Setting up the […]
Creating PDF files in ASP.NET Core
This article shows how to create PDF files in ASP.NET Core. I decided I wanted to use PDFSharp, because I like this library, but no NuGet packages exist for .NET Standard 2.0. YetaWF created a port for this, which was used 1:1 in this example, without changes. It would be great to see PDFSharp as […]
Deploying an ASP.NET Core application to Windows IIS
This article explains how to deploy an ASP.NET Core application to a Windows hosted IIS Server. Most applications are now deployed to a cloud hosted solutions like Azure App Services, but sometimes it is required to deploy to an IIS. I ran into an number of issues, which weren’t very well documented, which surprised me […]
Is Active Route Tag Helper for ASP.NET MVC Core with Razor Page support
Ben Cull did an excellent tag helper which makes it easy to set the active class element using the route data from an ASP.NET Core MVC application. This blog uses this and extends the implementation with support for Razor Pages. Original blog: Is Active Route Tag Helper for ASP.NET MVC Core by Ben Cull The […]
Updating part of an ASP.NET Core MVC View which uses Forms
This article shows how to update part of an ASP.NET Core MVC view which uses forms. Sometimes, within a form, some values depend on other ones, and cannot be updated on the client side. Changes in the form input values sends a partial view update which updates the rest of the dependent values, but not […]
Adding Localization to the ASP.NET Core Identity Pages
The article shows how to localize the new Identity Pages in an ASP.NET Core application. The views, code from the pages, and models require localized strings and are read from global identity resource files. This makes it easy to add translations for further languages, and prevents duplication. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCorePagesWebpack The application is setup using this […]
Updating ASP.NET Core Identity to use Bootstrap 4
This article shows how to update the default Identity Pages template to use Bootstrap 4. You need to scaffold the views into the project, and change the layouts and the views to use the new Bootstrap 4 classes and javascript. The base project is built using Webpack and npm. Bootstrap 4 is loaded from npm, […]
An ASP.NET Core Razor Pages Bootstrap 4 Application using Webpack, Typescript, and npm
This article shows how an ASP.NET Core Razor Pages application could be setup to use webpack, Typescript and npm to build, and bundle the client js, CSS for development and production. The application uses Bootstrap 4. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCorePagesWebpack The example is setup so that the vendor ( 3rd Party packages ) javascript files are used […]
Dynamic CSS in an ASP.NET Core MVC View Component
This post shows how a view with dynamic css styles could be implemented using an MVC view component in ASP.NET Core. The values are changed using a HTML form with ASP.NET Core tag helpers, and passed into the view component which displays the view using css styling. The styles are set at runtime. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreMvcDynamicViews […]
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