ASP.NET Core

Reporting is essential for business applications like e-commerce, shipping, fintech, etc. One of the most popular document formats for reporting purposes is PDF. Today I want to show you a few interesting ways to generate PDF files in .NET.

An ASP.NET Core Tag Helper to Use the DisplayAttribute Description for HTML UI elements

Alba is a small library that enables easy integration testing of ASP.Net Core routes completely in process within an NUnit/xUnit.Net/MSTest project.

Contextual feature filters are helpful and allow you to enable/disable a feature based on the context supplied.

If you are a frontend developer, chances are you have heard of or you actively use Next.js. And if you are a backend developer (or not), surely Node.js more than rings a bell. Afterall, if one wants…

In this article, we are going to show you how to register services for different environments in .NET application.

.NET Core 3.1 will reach end of support on December 13, 2022, this blog breaks down all the valuable information you need to know and how to update to .NET 6.0.

Website with the collection of all the cheat sheets of the project.

If you're seeing an error that says 'An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions.' this may fix it.

In this article, we are going to do a small demo on integrating Azure Redis Cache into the AspNetCore Application using Distributed cache

In this post I discuss unit testing of API/MVC controllers in ASP.NET Core and some of the difficulties you face.

Log http requests/responses using ASP.NET Core HttpLoggingMiddleware.

This module guides you through implementing resiliency in an ASP.NET Core microservices app in Azure Kubernetes Service.

In this post I show how to use IConfigurationRoot.GetDebugView(), walk through its implementation, and describe how to expose the data as an API.

Learn to leverage HttpClientFactory in the .NET SDK to improve connection reuse across your applications that rely on HttpClient.

In this article, we will discuss what HttpContext is and how to use it in a controller, plus how to register and use it in service.

In this post I describe some of the smaller pieces of advice, tips, and info I found when running applications on Kubernetes

The default .NET dependency injection container does not provide a way to register named services. This article shows a technique to solve this by adding a generic marker parameter to the service interface so that it can be registered multiple times and resolved with the marker type.

In this article, we will show how you can subscribe to Push Notifications using ASP.NET Core and how you can send Push Notifications from .NET as well.

How to use the MediatR NuGet library in ASP.NET Core, and working with the CQRS and Mediator architectural patterns.

ASP.NET Core Application Not Working in IIS? We fix Interval Server Errors 500.19 & 500.21, plus 500.30 ANCM In-Process Start Failure

Based on customers using .NET Core in different environments, this article explores options for adding observability to .NET Core apps.

This post shows how you can create and use X509 certificates in Azure Key Vault. The certificates are created using Azure CLI and are used inside an ASP.NET Core application. Code: StsServerIdentity/Services/Certificate Setup using Azure CLI Azure CLI can be used to setup the Azure Key Vault and also create certificates for an existing Key…

Using Microsoft.FeatureManagement libararies implementing feature flags for ASP.Net Core MVC applications has never been easier. Learn how.

In this article, we are going to learn how to integrate the Swagger UI in an ASP.NET Core Web API and extend documentations and customizing UI.

Learn how to fetch properties or values from appsettings.json in .NET Core. We’ll cover it using both IConfiguration and Options Pattern.

Exploring creating and consuming custom middleware in ASP.NET core and it's configuration

This post looks at how to configure ASP.NET Core middleware in a way that allows you to have different middleware for different types of request.

In this post I show how to skip the summary log for some requests when using Serilog.AspNetCore's request logging middleware

Writing HTTP API's in ASP.NET Core? Here's how to use RFC 7807 Problem Details in ASP.NET Core when creating HTTP API's.

In this post I show how to add extra details to Serilog.AspNetCore's request logging middleware, such as the host name or the selected Endpoint name.

A workshop for moving through the various new pieces in ASP.NET Core Authorization - blowdart/AspNetAuthorizationWorkshop

There are several ways of bootstrapping your MVC applications on top of ASP.NET Core 3.x...

In this article, I will keep efficiency in mind to describe several ways of .NET Core deployment on Docker. To start deploying on Docker we need a sample project. I will use the default ASP.NET Core…

ASP.NET Core exposes an application's web and content root paths through the IWebHostEnvironment service, which is available via the built-in dependency injection system.

Implement simple JSON HATEOAS support to an ASP.NET Core web API

In this post I describe how you can use Serilog.AspNetCore to reduce the number of logs generated by every request in ASP.NET Core 3.0

When we build web applications, implementing authentication plays a vital role in providing personalized and secure services to users. But as we all know, typical authentication mechanisms like…

In this post, we'll build an authentication and authorization flow based on the implicit grant type using OAuth2 and OpenID Connect protocols to authenticate an Angular SPA client against IdentityServer4 with the ultimate goal of making authorized requests against a protected ASP.NET Core Web API.

TL; DR: I’ve put down everything I can think of about getting set up for successful production diagnostics using Serilog and ASP.NET Core.

In this post I'm giving a quick introduction into the Worker Services and what you can do with it. I'm also introducing a small project that shows the usage of Worker Services, gRPC and many more cool new ASP.NET Core 3.0 stuff.

I had a reader send me a question yesterday. She basically wanted to use her existing .NET Framework libraries in an ASP.NET Core application, and it wasn't ...

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In this post find out a clean way to add Swagger to ASP.NET Core application using extension methods to make startup.cs clean and manageable.

ASP.NET Core continues to improve on the legacy of the .NET Framework. Our team is impressed with its performance and excited about future possibilities, but change is seldom a smooth transition. In this post, I’ll explain a pitfall you may run into using the newest configuration model in .NET Core and options to mitigate the issue.

Exploring the multiple ways you can register your service dependencies with the new IHost found in ASP.NET Core 3 (Preview).

ngrok is tunnelling software that allows you to expose your local web server to the outside world. This is ideal for scenarios like testing webhooks.

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Josef Ottosson - I will show you how to protect your ASP.NET Core endpoints by using the concept of API keys. We will also learn the difference between Authentication and Authorization.

In this post Andrew Lock describe one of the quirks of serializing JSON.NET JObject (contract resolvers are not honoured), and show how to get camelCase names when serializing a JObject that stored its property names in PascalCase.

This article will walk you through the creation of ASP.NET Core application using ASP.NET Core 2.2 from scratch, by utilizing the capabilities of package manager, EF Core, Identity API, Razor Class Library, etc.

Adding strongly typed configuration settings and injected them through dependency injection.

Adding feature flags to an ASP.NET Core app - Part 1

A primer on Sign In with Apple, including an example integration in ASP.NET Core

This is the twenty-third of a series of posts on ASP .NET Core in 2019 - Wake Up And Code!

In ASP.NET Core 3.0, Microsoft is updating the SignalR client by adding the ability to automatically reconnect when a connection is dropped. This blog post will show you how you can use this feature.

Adding strongly typed configuration settings and injected them through dependency injection.

This is the twenty-second of a series of posts on ASP .NET Core in 2019 - Wake Up And Code!