When setting up a website, even if it’s just a generic blog like this one, it’s good to encrypt traffic to and from it using SSL. Obtaining certificates If you’re hosting a site on it’s own custom domain name rather than using a free hosting provider then you’ll likely need Read more…
There’s a variety of different ways to access configuration settings from an appsettings.json file in a project, these are all well documented here so this post is mostly intended to serve as a reminder for the methods I most frequently use. Dependency injection (DI) is a technique for achieving loose Read more…
Whenever I create a new project in Visual Studio 2015 one of the first things I do is go and upgrade all of the included NuGet packages. When creating an ASP.NET Core Web Application one of the included NuGet packages is is “Microsoft.NETCore.App” version 1.0.1, upon upgrading this to version Read more…
What I need to do here is to create an API that can authenticate and ingest an XML POST request, saving the provided data into a SQL database and returning a relevant HTML status code. Unfortunately this wasn’t quite as easy as I’d anticipated as the XML data will be Read more…
This is essentially just based on Google prettify which can be found here. Stick the following code in the head of the page to load the javascript. And then put the code you’d like to prettify in the following tags. If using this for HTML you need to replace all Read more…