So why would you ever log to Application Insights AND File log at the same time? Well, if you are hosting your own applications on your own machine, it can be great to have a file version of what’s happened. The file will be updated immediately, whereas Application Insights are sometimes up to 5 minutes […]
The “Obvious” of WASM Debugging While coding with Blazor WASM, it’s easy to get lulled into a false sense of comfort. After all, it’s all C# and .NET, right? Well, not exactly. It’s easy to gloss over that while our code runs on a version of .NET, it’s not the one we know and love. […]
HTTPS is mandatory to grant security to your web application, regardless of the programming framework you are using. But what happens if a client calls your web app with HTTP instead of HTTPS? How can you force it to use HTTPS? Let’s delve into the options provided by ASP.NET Core. Use HTTPS Redirection I guess […]
In ASP.NET Core applications it is possible to redirect to a specific URL in several different ways. In this article, we will learn about these techniques and the code required to redirect a request in ASP.NET Core There will always be a need for redirection to another URL based on some conditions like redirecting a […]
In this blog, I am going to provide a walkthrough on developing REST APIs using ASP.NET Core 3.1, connecting with existing databases using Entity Framework, creating a JWT token, and securing APIs. I am going to develop a sample application for an inventory REST service with basic operations. What is a REST API? Due to […]
The term cookie refers to a piece of data that is saved on the computer of a user and is generally used to record information about the user. Most browsers store each cookie as a small file, but Firefox stores them all in a single file. Cookies are made up of two parts: a key […]
Introduction When we are building our application, although we hope that our application will run without any errors until the end of time. This is not really the case exceptions happens in applications and we need to handle them. Exception Handling is a foundation that we need to consider while we are designing and building […]
One thing that comes to mind when using access tokens to secure a web api is what do you do when the token expires? Do you ask the user for credentials again? That’s not really a good option. This blog post is about using refresh tokens to solve this problem. Specifically in ASP.NET Core Web […]
In this article, I am going to discuss How to Build ASP.NET Core Web API Project from Scratch i.e. how to convert a console application to a Web API Application. So, what we will do here in this article, we will create an ASP.NET Core Console Application, and then we will convert that console application into ASP.NET […]
In this article, I will explain how to create the JWT token and how to Authenticate and Authorize it in very simple steps. 1. Add ASP.Net Core API Application Open visual studio 2022 click on create new project –> Select ASP.Net Core Web API –> Next Give desired project and solution name –> Next –> select framework […]
