In this article I will present my approach in accessing AAD user information using WebApi and a self signed certificate stored in keyvault. I am using .net 5, c#9 and for the test environmentI created an account using https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program , with this account you have a list of sample users which you can use toRead more
Description Data protection is a built-in cryptographic API which provides developer capabilities to persist trusted information while considering that the storage is untrusted. Simplicity in configuration Intuitive API complex/hidden key management principles To use data protection simply add the following package: To create the provider you can use the dependency injection: or you can instantiateRead more
Description GRPC represents big step in microservices communication for speed and performance overall. I am using GRPC with great pleasure and one major advantage for me as a developer is the ease and speed of development because the compiler takes care of generating both the client and the server. I am personally against using RESTRead more
Description I have been using for a while GRPC with c# to learn and test it’s capabilities. I recently installed on a secondary computer Kubuntu and docker and tried to make use of GRPC service by calling it from my laptop. This has failed because it requires a valid certificate for that (well..at leas aRead more
Download the solution here. Description There are multiple ways to achieve performance in designing our web applications and while some of them include optimizations at an architectural or infrastructure level, there is also the case of the size of data which is delivered over the wire. We do have the tendency to use what isRead more
Description CORS (Cross-Origin-Resource-Sharing) is a mechanism that allows a web application running at one origin to access the resources from a server running at a different origin. The same-origin policy is a very restrictive measure because it only allows applications on the same origin as the server to access it’s resources but it also bringsRead more
Description ViewComponents are powerfull solutions that allows the developer to keep his code clean and reusable. Unfortunatelly it has the same functionality as all the Views and for the current version (.NET Core 2.2) there is no proper support of defining scripts and style tag in a view component but to render them in theRead more
Description In the MVC lifecycle, the Action Filter executes before invoking the action. These filters are provided with the action context from which we can access and manipulate the controller context. In this example, I will show how to access a service in an action filter, and add data in the ViewData that can beRead more
Usage public class AuthenticateController : Controller { private readonly IActionCommandSystemService _ActionCommandSystemService; public AuthenticateController(IActionCommandSystemService actionCommandSystemService) { this._ActionCommandSystemService = actionCommandSystemService; } public IActionResult Login() { //AuthenticateLoginGetCommand – our command class //ViewResult – the result type return this._ActionCommandSystemService .Execute<AuthenticateLoginGetCommand, ViewResult>(this); } } //Our Command Class public class AuthenticateLoginGetCommand : ActionCommandController { public override ViewResult Execute() { //more logicRead more
