Uploading Files to Azure Blob Storage from the Browser 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 Read more…
Using NPM and Gulp in Visual Studio 2017 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 Read more…
Adding Serilog to an ASP.NET Core 2+ Web Application 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 Read more…
Returning HTTP Status Codes from ASP.NET Core Methods Sometimes in an MVC controller you just want to return a HTTP status code from a method rather than a view or data object. This is pretty simple but is done slightly differently in .NET Core than it was done previously. Some Read more…
Select list enum tag helper. If you want to have a select list in a web page which is based on all the values in an enum then you can use the built in function “Html.GetEnumSelectList” with a tag helper. public enum PushType { Notification, Image, Action } <div class="row"> Read more…
Storing complex objects in Session and TempData variables. 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 Read more…
HTML checkbox switches I’ve been using Switchery in various sites to make nice looking checkboxes, however whilst browsing the projects GitHub issues I spotted one post that said it was possible to replicate it’s functionality using pure CSS (though possibly at the cost of browser compatibility). This seems to work Read more…
How to get access tokens from Azure Active Directory I’ve recently been working on a project to display Azure billing information in an internal dashboard and to send out alerts if the billing exceeds a certain amount. The first problem I had with this was that although there’s GitHub projects Read more…
Invisible reCAPTCHA I’ve previously used the Google one click reCAPTCHA in sites but as the new invisible version is out I figured I’d have a go at getting it to work. Previously I had the one click reCAPTCHA working as below where the result populated an invisible required field validated Read more…
X-FRAME-OPTIONS Response Header I hadn’t previously realised this but MVC adds an X-FRAME-OPTIONS: SAMEORIGIN header to site page responses as part of a security measure to prevent sites running in iframes. These can be removed in ASP.NET 5 applications by modifying the relevant option in Startup.cs public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) Read more…