Tag Archives: aspnet-core

Using Key Vault and Managed Identities with Azure Functions

July 20, 2020 · by · in .NET Core, App Service, ASP.NET Core, Azure, Azure functions, Azure Key Vault · 2 Comments

This article shows how Azure Key Vault could be used together with Azure Functions. The Azure Functions can use the system assigned identity to access the Key Vault. This needs to be configured in the Key Vault access policies using the service principal. By using the Microsoft.Azure.KeyVault and the Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.AzureKeyVault nuget packages, defining direct references […]

User claims in ASP.NET Core using OpenID Connect Authentication

November 1, 2019 · by · in .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, MVC · 4 Comments

This article shows two possible ways of getting user claims in an ASP.NET Core application which uses an IdentityServer4 service. Both ways have advantages and require setting different code configurations in both applications. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreHybridFlowWithApi To use OpenID Connect in an ASP.NET Core application, the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.OpenIdConnect package can be used. This needs to be added […]

Building and securing an ASP.NET Core API with a hosted Vue.js UI

October 4, 2019 · by · in ASP.NET Core, dotnet, javascript, OAuth2, Security, SQLite, Typescript, UI, Uncategorized, Web · 8 Comments

This article shows how Vue.js can be used together with ASP.NET Core 3 in a single project. The Vue.js application is built using the Vue.js CLI and built to the wwwroot of the ASP.NET Core application. The ASP.NET Core application is used to implement the APIs consumed by the Vue.js UI. The application is secured […]

Creating PDF files in ASP.NET Core

September 30, 2018 · by · in ASP.NET Core, dotnet · 8 Comments

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 […]

Updating ASP.NET Core Identity to use Bootstrap 4

June 26, 2018 · by · in .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, ASPNET5, dotnet, MVC, Security, UI, Web · 1 Comment

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, […]

Using Message Pack with ASP.NET Core SignalR

March 19, 2018 · by · in .NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, ASPNET5, dotnet, MVC, SignalR, Web · 7 Comments

This post shows how SignalR could be used to send messages between different C# console clients using Message Pack as the protocol. An ASP.NET Core web application is used to host the SignalR Hub. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreAngularSignalR Posts in this series History 2023-01-08 Updated Angular 15, .NET 72021-01-25 Updated Angular 11.1.0 .NET 5, ngrx implementation2020-03-21 updated […]

Securing an ASP.NET Core MVC application which uses a secure API

February 2, 2018 · by · in .NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, dotnet, MVC, OAuth2, Security, Web · 5 Comments

The article shows how an ASP.NET Core MVC application can implement security when using an API to retrieve data. The OpenID Connect Hybrid flow is used to secure the ASP.NET Core MVC application. The application uses tokens stored in a cookie. This cookie is not used to access the API. The API is protected using […]