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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: https://github.com/gldraphael/

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 the latest

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 role names. So let's refactor the roles into

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 save it in a

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 key properties, the upper bound of the multiplicity

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 Error. According to this,