This article shows how a client white-list could be implemented using ASP.NET Core middleware checking the Remote IP address of the request. If the client IP is on the white-list, no restrictions exist. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/ClientIpAspNetCoreIIS The middleware uses an admin white-list parameter from the constructor to compare with the remote ip address from the HttpContext […]
This article shows how Entity Framework Core messages can be logged, and compared using the SQL Profiler and also some of the cool new 1.1 features, but not all. All information can be found on the links at the bottom and especially the excellent docs for EF Core. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/EFCoreFeaturesAndDiag project.json with EF Core packages […]
This article is a simple guideline on how you could contribute to gitHub OSS projects using fork and upstream. This is not the only way to do it. git Extensions is used for this demo, but any git client can be used. In this example, aspnet/AspLabs from Microsoft is used as the target repository. So […]
This article shows how Identity can be extended and used together with IdentityServer4 to implement application specific requirements. The application allows users to register and can access the application for 7 days. After this, the user cannot log in. Any admin can activate or deactivate a user using a custom user management API. Extra properties […]
This article shows how a website search could be implemented using Angular 2, ASP.NET Core and Elasticsearch. Most users expect autocomplete and a flexible search like some of known search websites. When the user enters a char in the search input field, an autocomplete using a shingle token filter with a terms aggregation used to […]
This article shows how autocomplete could be implemented in Angular 2 using ASP.NET Core MVC as a data service. The API uses Elasticsearch to query the data requests. ng2-completer is used to implement the Angular 2 autocomplete functionality. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/Angular2AutoCompleteAspNetCoreElasticsearch To use autocomplete in the Angular 2 application, the ng2-completer package needs to be added […]
This post shows how to use SASS with Webpack and Angular 2 in Visual Studio. I had various problems trying to get this to work from Visual Studio using a Webpack build. The following is a solution which works, but not the only one. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/Angular2WebpackVisualStudio Install node-sass globally, so that the package is available […]
