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Three Ways to Return Data from ASP.NET Core Web API |
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ASP.NET Core allows you to build RESTful services using web API. Typically you want to return data and HTTP status codes from an API controller. To that end there are three ways to return values from an API controller. This article discusses them with an example. |
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Posted On : 18 Mar 2019 |
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Enable CORS in ASP.NET Core API |
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Browsers do not allow cross origin communication for security reasons. This means if an ASP.NET Core web API housed in one web app is called by JavaScript code running as a part of another web app, the communication attempt will fail. However, you can alter this default behavior by adding some configuration in your API application. To that end this article discusses how that task can be accomplished. |
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Posted On : 11 Mar 2019 |
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Reverse Engineering EF Core Model and Data Validation Techniques |
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While working with ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core you need to create data model for your application. This calls for creating a DbContext class along with one or more entity classes. Luckily, EF Core allows you to reverse engineer the model from an existing database. To that end this article discusses how that can be accomplished.
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Posted On : 25 Feb 2019 |
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Use XML format with ASP.NET Core web APIs |
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In one of my past articles I discussed how to deal with XML data in ASP.NET Web APIs. Although JSON is quite popular format in API communication, at times you might need to handle XML data. To that end this article describes the required configuration with a simple example. |
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Posted On : 18 Feb 2019 |
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JWT authentication in ASP.NET Core using HttpClient |
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In my last two articles (you can read them here and here) we discussed how JWT authentication can be implemented in ASP.NET Core APIs and jQuery client. In this article we will use .NET Core's HttpClient component to perform JWT authentication.
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Posted On : 11 Feb 2019 |
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JWT Authentication in ASP.NET Core using jQuery Client |
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In my previous article we discussed what JWT authentication is and how to implement it in ASP.NET Core APIs. In that article you learnt to use Postman tool to test the JWT functionality. In most of the real-world cases you will be handling the JWT using either client side script (jQuery, Angular etc.) or server side code (HttpClient component). To that end this article discusses using jQuery to consume the SecurityController and EmployeeController we developed earlier. |
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Posted On : 28 Jan 2019 |
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Implement JWT Authentication in ASP.NET Core APIs |
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If you developed web applications using ASP.NET before, chances are you are already familiar with cookie authentication. Although cookie based authentication is still available under ASP.NET Core, JSON Web Token or JWT based authentication is becoming more and more common. To that end this article aims at introducing you to JWT and JWT based authentication. |
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Posted On : 21 Jan 2019 |
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Add ASP.NET Core projects to GitHub using Visual Studio 2019 |
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If you a beginner in ASP.NET Core, you might have wondered as to how newly created projects can be placed under a GitHub repository. In this article we will see the overall steps and configuration to do so. You will get an idea about how GitHub can be integrated in Visual Studio 2019. |
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Posted On : 14 Jan 2019 |
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Send emails in ASP.NET Core in 5 easy steps |
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Sending emails is a common requirement in ASP.NET Core web applications. In this article we will learn how to send emails with attachments using a popular and open source component - MailKit. Let's get going.
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Posted On : 07 Jan 2019 |
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Implement Two-way Data Binding in JavaScript |
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One of the fundamental features of modern JavaScript libraries and frameworks is data binding. The data binding features offered by them allows you to keep model and view in sync. Did you ever wonder how something similar can be implemented in plain JavaScript? If so this article shows you one such simple yet working implementation. Although simple implementation as discussed in this article is not intended to substitute what is offered by these libraries and frameworks, it will certainly give you a glimpse of how data binding might be implemented if needed. |
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Posted On : 31 Dec 2018 |
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