Tag Archives: .NET
Basic Authentication in ASP.NET Core
This article shows how basic authentication could be implemented in an ASP.NET Core application. This is not the recommended way to implement security for user flows as the password is always sent with each request but the flow is sometimes required to implement a standard or you sometimes need to support one side of an […]
Force MFA in Blazor using Azure AD and Continuous Access
This article shows how to force MFA from your application using Azure AD and a continuous access auth context. When producing software which can be deployed to multiple tenants, instead of hoping IT admins configure this correctly in their tenants, you can now force this from the application. Many tenants do not force MFA. Code: […]
Implement Azure AD Continuous Access in an ASP.NET Core Razor Page app using a Web API
This article shows how Azure AD continuous access (CA) can be used in an ASP.NET Core UI application to force MFA when using an administrator API from a separate ASP.NET Core application. Both applications are secured using Microsoft.Identity.Web. An ASP.NET Core Razor Page application is used to implement the UI application. The API is implemented […]
Securing multiple Auth0 APIs in ASP.NET Core using OAuth Bearer tokens
This article shows a strategy for security multiple APIs which have different authorization requirements but the tokens are issued by the same authority. Auth0 is used as the identity provider. A user API and a service API are implemented in the ASP.NET Core API project. The access token for the user API data is created […]
Search Queries and Filters with ElasticsearchCRUD
This article demonstrates how to do searches with ElasticsearchCRUD. The API provides a search model which can be used with the search API from Elasticsearch. You can search both sync/async and also provide you own JSON string or use the search model. Lots of examples can be found here: https://github.com/damienbod/ElasticsearchCRUD/tree/master/src/ElasticsearchCRUDNUnit.Integration.Test Other Tutorials: Part 1: ElasticsearchCRUD […]
Elasticsearch CRUD .NET provider
The article explains how to use the ElasticsearchCRUD NuGet package. ElasticsearchCRUD is designed so that you can do CRUD operations for any entity and insert, delete, update or select single documents from Elasticsearch. The package only includes basic search or query possibilities. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/ElasticsearchCRUD NuGet Package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/ElasticsearchCRUD/ Issues: https://github.com/damienbod/ElasticsearchCRUD/issues Tutorials: Part 1: ElasticsearchCRUD introduction Part […]
Policeman Guard NuGet Package
This post is a simple article which shows how the use the Policeman.Guard NuGet package. The package can be used for simple checks in your methods to guard against null arguments, required conditions or whatever. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/Policeman NuGet Package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Policeman.Guard/ The Requires guard method can be used to do any type of method checks. You […]
Getting started with Elasticsearch and .NET
At present there are 2 main players in the full text searches for applications. Solr and Elasticsearch. Both are built using Lucene. There’s a lot of dicussion about which is the best, but for me, Elasticsearch provides some better features and seems to be growing faster. I decided to choose Elasticsearch because you require no […]
How to create Strong named assemblies in .NET
This post is a very simple example of how to create strong named assemblies and use in a solution. Each project uses the same strong named key. One key is uesd for the whole solution. Step 1: Create the snk Key Open the Developer Command prompt as an administrator and enter sn -k C:/yourKeyPairName.snk Step […]
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