If you want to get a users username in a site that uses authentication then you can just use the User object and that will provide all claims associated with that user. However if you want to get the username for a user where they’re not required to authenticate first … Read more
IdentityServer4 is an OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 framework for ASP.NET Core which acts as a middleware layer for managing authentication and authorization. Configuration data for the IdentityServer4 service can be persisted in a variety of storage mediums including Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL and if you want to … Read more
Session and TempData variables can be used in MVC controllers to pass variables between actions or from actions to views, however if you want to pass complex objects through using these variables the base classes need to be extended to serialize/deserialize the provided objects to/from JSON. Once the above classes … Read more
ASP.NET Core Rewrite Middleware Extensions I’ve recently updated my site and one of the demo projects on it uses the Bing Image Search API to fetch a list of images and display them. This worked fine when running locally but when published it appeared that a number of the linked … Read more
When creating a new API controller in a Web Application the template code created if you choose to include read/write actions provides a good overview of how to pass values through to the API methods and return results. The template assumes that the controller only has one action per HTTP … Read more
If you want to get the physical location of a user on your site there’s a couple of different methods that you can use, you can either use their IP address to get an approximate location or you can request a more accurate location from them using the HTML geolocation … Read more
I’ve just started building a site using Bootstrap 4 which is different enough to Bootstrap 3 that I’m having to relearn a few things. One of those is form validation as previously I used bootstrap-validator though this doesn’t yet work with version 4. Version 4 does have it’s own inbuilt … Read more
By default new Web Applications created in Visual Studio 2017 use Bower for managing external libraries such as jQuery and Bootstrap, however Bower is no longer best practice (and seemed a bit flaky in Visual Studio anyway) and so for new projects I now use npm for managing packages. Using … Read more
As part of an ongoing project I’ve been trying to upload files from from the browser to an ASP.NET Core MVC site, however there appears to be a hard limit preventing uploading files greater than ~28.6 MiB in size which I can’t manage to figure out a way around. As … Read more
I use Serilog to log to a SQL database in most of my web applications and although it’s pretty well documented the details relevant to my projects are spread out over a few sites so I figured I’d gather them here together for future reference. Packages Install these packages from … Read more