Using the .NET Core Middleware for request processing is, imho, not very well documented. There are a couple of things that are not obvious: retrieving query parameters and binding a request body to an object. To top things off, accessing the request Body has a few issues. Here’s how to deal with these scenarios.
.NET Core Middleware Request Processing
posted on August 14, 2016 by long2know in ASP.NET, Core
Creating a Distributed Computing Engine with the Actor Model and .NET Core
posted on August 13, 2016 by long2know in ASP.NET, Core
Over the past year and a few months, we, my coworkers and I that is, have been using an Actor Model framework to implement a sort-of state-engine-based distributing computing engine. Using a generalized framework for this seemed to introduce many complexities that, in my mind, could potentially be simplified. My weekend project is centered around exploring what can be done out-of-the-box with .NET Core.
Using EF6 with .NET Core
posted on August 10, 2016 by long2know in ASP.NET, Core, Entity Framework, MVC
EntityFramework 7 is the defacto ORM used with .NET Core to provide cross-platform compatible data access. EF7 is missing many features that are present in EF6, though. My initial apprehension was that this would create a scenario where one could not use .NET Core if their projects relied on EF6 features. Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to get EF6 working with .NET Core. The sacrifice is a loss of cross-platform hosting ability.
Angular2 basic routing
posted on July 18, 2016 by long2know in angular, ASP.NET, Core, JavaScript
In continuing to build upon my previous project to get Angular2 working with Visual Studio 2015, I’ve been playing with routing and components.
While routing and components are very different when compared to Angular v1, it’s still pretty straight forward to get a basic application up and running.
Accessing HttpContext in ASP.NET Core
posted on July 12, 2016 by long2know in ASP.NET, Core
In the solution that I’m migrating to ASP.NET Core, I have a domain project that uses System.Web’s HttpContext. Since System.Web is not part of .NET Core, I had to figure out how one gets the current user’s identity within a domain class.
ASP.NET Core Enforcing HTTPS
posted on July 11, 2016 by long2know in ASP.NET, Core
With OWIN and .NET 4.6.x, it was pretty straight forward to enable SSL (TLS), and redirect all requests to the HTTPS end-point with Visual Studio’s tooling (IIS Express). It’s not quite as straight forward to accomplish this in .NET Core.
ASP.NET Core OAuth Middleware
posted on July 11, 2016 by long2know in ASP.NET, Core, Microsoft, Middleware, Security
After using OWIN for months for basic OAuth authentication, it’s apparent that Microsoft is abandoning OWIN . This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. .NET Core is built on a similar structure as that which was implemented in OWIN. Essentially, we have a familiar middleware pipeline.
Porting EF6 to EF7 or EF Core
posted on July 6, 2016 by long2know in ASP.NET, Core, Entity Framework
Since my foray into utilizing .NET Core to port an older CRUD app using Angular 1.x and Entity Framework 6.x, my first stumbling block is dealing with breaking changes between EF 6.x and newer versions of EF.
Creating an Angular2 app with VS2015
posted on July 6, 2016 by long2know in angular, ASP.NET, Core
Last night, I was playing with the latest .NET Core tooling in Visual Studio 2015 and decided to create an Anuglar2 application. It is not a straight-forward process. Additionally, most tutorials that you will see floating around don’t deal with Angular2 RC4 (v.Latest). And the few that do either aren’t Visual Studio 2015 specific or aren’t targeting ES5 as required by IE11 or older.