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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.

ASP.NET Core has thin but rich and powerful built-in dependency injection mechanism we can use to inject instances to controllers and some other parts of web applications. Although constructor injection is the most famous dependency injection method for controllers there is also dependency injection to controller actions available. This post introduces controller action injection and shows how to benefit from it.

ASP.NET Core 2.1 introduces new application host for Windows services. We can now run ASP.NET Core applications as Windows services with minimal effort. This blog post introduces how it is done and how to build and run Windows services on ASP.NET Core without any need for dirty hacks.

Previous versions of Entity Framework Core doesn’t support database level grouping and LINQ GroupBy is translated locally. Entity Framework Core 2.1 translates LINQ GroupBy to database query in most of cases. Here is the example.

As General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now official in European Union (EU) there’s also some basic support for it included in ASP.NET Core 2.1. Althouhg it’s not possible to come out with technical etalon for GDPR there’s still some good starting points available in ASP.NET Core. Here is the brief overview.

ASP.NET Core 2.1 introduces Razor Class Library (RCL). It’s the new way how to share reusable web application components with UI as dependent project or NuGet package. As public examples mostly cover how it works with Razor Pages, I decided to write this blog post and demo application for ASP.NET Core MVC.

Bundling and minification has been available in ASP.NET MVC for a long time. This blog post focuses on problems people have had with bundling and provides working solutions for those who cannot use bundling in ASP.NET MVC for different reasons. Also some ideas about more effective bundling are presented here.

Creating PDF-files on ASP.NET Core has been issue for awhile. I needed some proof-of-concept solution to prove it’s possible to generate PDF-files on ASP.NET Core easily without writing a lot of code or going through complex configuration. I solved the problem and here is my solution.

ASP.NET Core supports culture based views for more complex localizations. It means we have one view per culture per controller action. This blog post shows how to use culture based views in ASP.NET Core and how to implement them.