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Reuse UI with Partial Views in ASP.NET Core MVC and Razor Pages |
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While developing ASP.NET Core web applications you often need to reuse parts of the user interface across many view or razor pages. There are multiple options to address this requirement simplest being Partial Views. In this article you will learn what partial views are and how to use them in ASP.NET Core MVC and Razor Pages applications. |
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Posted On : 22 Apr 2019 |
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Use Cache and Distributed Cache Tag Helpers in ASP.NET Core |
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Web developers often look for opportunities to boost the performance of their web applications. ASP.NET Core provides server side caching in the form of in-memory and distributed cache implementation. Moreover, it offers two Tag Helpers to implement cache HTML content of razor views or razor pages - Cache and Distributed Cache. To that end this article discusses these Tag Helpers in brief. |
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Posted On : 08 Apr 2019 |
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Handle Unknown Actions in ASP.NET Core MVC |
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While working with ASP.NET Core MVC, usually you have known number of actions and views. At times you might come across a situation where you need to deal with actions unknown at development time. Let me briefly explain a situation I recently stumbled upon. |
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Posted On : 25 Mar 2019 |
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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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