ASP.NET

There’s no Server.MapPath() in ASP.NET Core and things are way different than with old ASP.NET MVC. This blog post shows how application and public web files are organized in ASP.NET Core and how to access them from web applications.

During one of my ASP.NET Core classes I made demo about how to read GPS coordinates from photo and display location on a map. I took my favorite photo of beer kiosk in Krakow and displayed location of this kiosk on map. This blog post describes my experiment on getting GPS coordinates from EXIF data in ASP.NET Core application.

I made one small experiment and tried to get simple client-side Blazor application running on browser in offline mode. Yes, offline – visit application page once, turn out internet connection, open browser, type in application URL and it just runs. This blog post is short illustrated overview of my experiment.

Lately Blazor got important update – support for server-side Blazor applications. This blog post introduces how server-side Blazor applications work and what are pros and cons when considering building these.

Error when running ASP.NET MVC application from Visual Studio: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS. Stop inventing painful hacks, solution is here.

As my Blazor demo application supports now Azure AD I took the next step and implemented search using Azure Search service. This blog post shows how to add search capabilities to Blazor application using Azure Functions back.end and Azure Search service.

Although Blazor is in early stages of development it is already good enough to try out and play with it. As a logical continuation to my previous experiment where I made Blazor application use Azure Functions based back-end. I made it also support Azure AD authentication on web application and back-end level. This blog post introduces my work on Blazor and Azure AD.

About year ago I wrote a blog post Running PHP applications on .NET Core where I introduced how to build PHP applications to .NET Core using Peachpie. Their showcase was WordPress – the famous blog engine that also runs my blog. Peachpie guys have made significant work over year and they have reached the point where whole WordPress is built as .NET Core application.

My previous blog post was an introduction to static website hosting on Azure Storage. This post focuses on how to deploy Blazor application as a Azure static website and how to use Azure Functions as a server back-end for Blazor application.

ASP.NET Core 2.1 introduces Razor UI class libraries that allow us to share UI artifacts with libraries and NuGet packages. One of first official packages delivered with UI pieces is ASP.NET Core Identity. This blog post shows how to override default views of ASP.NET Core Identity by using scaffolding.