Tag Archives: aspnetcore

ASP.NET Core Authorization for Windows, Local accounts

This article shows how authorization could be implemented for an ASP.NET Core MVC application. The authorization logic is extracted into a separate project, which is required by some certification software requirements. This could also be deployed as a separate service. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreWindowsAuth Blogs in this series: Supporting both Local and Windows Authentication in ASP.NET Core […]

Using Message Pack with ASP.NET Core SignalR

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 the CDN links in the ASP.NET Core 2.1 templates

This article uses the the ASP.NET Core 2.1 MVC template and shows how to secure the CDN links using the integrity parameter. A new ASP.NET Core MVC application was created using the 2.1 template in Visual Studio. This template uses HTTPS per default and has added some of the required HTTPS headers like HSTS which […]

Using an EF Core database for the IdentityServer4 configuration data

This article shows how to implement a database store for the IdentityServer4 configurations for the Client, ApiResource and IdentityResource settings using Entity Framework Core and SQLite. This could be used, if you need to create clients, or resources dynamically for the STS, or if you need to deploy the STS to multiple instances, for example […]

Sending Direct Messages using SignalR with ASP.NET Core and Angular

This article shows how SignalR could be used to send direct messages between different clients using ASP.NET Core to host the SignalR Hub and Angular to implement the clients. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreAngularSignalRSecurity 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 packages, fixed Admin UI STS2019-08-18 […]

Implementing custom policies in ASP.NET Core using the HttpContext

This article shows how to implement a custom ASP.NET Core policy using the AuthorizationHandler class. The handler validates, that the identity from the HttpContext has the authorization to update the object in the database. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreAngularSignalRSecurity History 2023-01-08 Updated Angular 15, .NET 72021-01-25 Updated Angular 11.1.0 .NET 5, ngrx implementation2020-03-21 updated packages, fixed Admin UI […]

Securing an Angular SignalR client using JWT tokens with ASP.NET Core and Duende IdentityServer

This post shows how an Angular SignalR client can send secure messages using JWT bearer tokens with an API and an STS server. The STS server is implemented using Duende IdentityServer and the API is implemented using ASP.NET Core. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreAngularSignalRSecurity Posts in this series History 2023-01-08 Updated Angular 15, .NET 72021-01-25 Updated Angular 11.1.0 […]

Getting started with SignalR using ASP.NET Core and Angular

This article shows how to setup a first SignalR Hub in ASP.NET Core 2.2 and use it with an Angular client. SignalR was released with dotnet 2.1. Thanks to Dennis Alberti for his help in setting up the code example. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreAngularSignalR Posts in this series History 2023-01-08 Updated Angular 15, .NET 72021-01-25 Updated Angular […]

Angular Configuration using ASP.NET Core settings

This post shows how ASP.NET Core application settings can be used to configure an Angular application. ASP.NET Core provides excellent support for different configuration per environment, and so using this for an Angular application can be very useful. Using CI, one release build can be automatically created with different configurations, instead of different release builds […]

Using Protobuf Media Formatters with ASP.NET Core

This article shows how to use Protobuf with an ASP.NET Core MVC application. The API uses the WebApiContrib.Core.Formatter.Protobuf Nuget package to add support for Protobuf. This package uses the protobuf-net Nuget package from Marc Gravell, which makes it really easy to use a really fast serializer, deserializer for your APIs. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreWebApiContribProtobufSample History 2019-09-23 Updated […]