ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET, Azure, SharePoint, IoT
ASP.NET Core supports response compression. From popular algorithms gzip and Brotli are supported. Those who like can also implement their own response compression providers. This blog post shows how to response compression works in ASP.NET Core.
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Plex Media Server is ideal free replacement for out-dated Microsoft home media stack. To be honest it’s even more powerful and has some nice features we only dreamed about back in days. One example: remote access to home media. Plex in home network can be available also from public internet and this blog post covers some scenarios where Plex is running behing IIS reverse-proxy.
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Static dependency can be nightmare for developers who write tests for their code. There is not much to do to get rid of static dependencies if they come with third-party libraries or NuGet packages. This blog post introduces two tricks to make code with static dependencies testable.
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ASP.NET Core uses built-in dependency injection mechanism provided by Microsoft. This blog post intorduces how to use same mechanism in .NET Core console applications. For those who like other DI/IoC frameworks this writing provides demo about how to use Autofac with .NET Core framework-level dependency injection.
Read moreCode coverage reports for ASP.NET Core projects are not provided out-of-box but using right tools we can build decent code coverage reports. I needed code coverage reports in some of my projects and here is how I made things work using different free libraries and packages.
Read moreOne of new language features of C# 8.0 is support for using declarations. These declarations enable shorter syntax for declaring disposable variables we want to dispose. Also using declarations give us a little bit cleaner code while compiler makes a dirty work of producing correct code that takes care of disposing disposable variables.
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I needed automatic version numbering based on current date when web application is built. It was wish by some customers and in their projects it’s okay with it. As their code is covered with automated tests and other diagnostics I’m using Azure DevOps as build server and this is where I made automated date based versioning work.
Read moreThere’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.
Read moreDuring 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.
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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.
Read moreLately 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.
Read moreC# doesn’t have built-in function to repeat a string. There are different version for string.Repeat() available in internet and it’s up to reader to find out which version works better. Here is the list of most popular implementations I found across the web. I list my findings here with the results of simple performance test.
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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.
Read moreAs 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.
Read moreAlthough 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.
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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.
Read moreMy 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.
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Azure has new and interesting service for hosting static sites on blob storage. There is no additional server-side application hosting account needed to run public static sites – they run straight from blob storage. Although the service is in public preview, it is time to find out how it works and when we should consider using it.
Read moreASP.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.
Read moreASP.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.
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Remote Desktop is great thing when it works but with Windows 10 I usually see one problem after another. I decided to write up some tricks I need pretty often when RDP is going crazy on some Windows 10 box. Nothing special but I hope I save some people hours of time on trying out different tricks found in internet.
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