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Generating PDFs from an ASP.NET Core app using a Node library

Quick blogpost on converting HTML to PDF from an ASP.NET Core application using a Node library by Marc Bachmann called html-pdf. I've also setup a docker-based sample github repository if you just want to see the final thing. Create a new project Let's quickly create

Getting started with Identity in ASP.NET Core

Identity is a simple auth system and a great improvement over Simple Membership. If you're new to it, this exercise should help you get started. This exercise What we'll build: A simple auth controller using identity with login/logout actions for use by an SPA. GitHub:

Migrating a .NET Core project to the .csproj format

The dotnet 1.0.1 tooling includes a tool called dotnet-migrate. Just run: $ dotnet migrate More info here at the Microsoft Docs here. But it dint work for me. This is what I got: $ dotnet migrate No executable found matching command "dotnet-migrate" I tried re-updating dotnet by downloading

Custom Authorize Filter

We've all used the [Authorize] attribute in ASP.NET MVC applications. To limit access to a particular action to users of two roles, you'd use something like [Authorize(Roles="Admin,Moderator")] on the action. There's always a chance that we mistype the

Show GIT commit SHA in .NET applications

Many applications display their commit ID alongside the version. VS Code is one such example: Though I've only tried this on ASP.NET sites, this should be doable in most .NET applications. To do this we create a pre-build event that'll execute a git command and

EF 0..1 relationships

It's the second time I'm seeing the following error this week and I thought I should document it: B_A_Source: Multiplicity is not valid in Role 'B_A_Source' in relationship 'B_A'. Because the Dependent Role properties are not the

EF migrations on Azure

I happened to work on a project hosted on Azure. The project made use of Entity Framework, and after a point I had to add migrations. But for some reason, the update-database failed on the server with the following error: Tables without a clustered index are not supported in this

Removing roslyn from ASP.NET 4.5.2 project template

If you're using VS 2015 for development, ASP.NET projects now use Roslyn by default. The host I use as a test server doesn't support Roslyn / C# 6.0 yet. Though the website gets published successfully (using Web Deploy), I end up with an Internal Server