APIs are crucial for the development of contemporary software because they enable seamless data exchange and communication between various systems. Authentication and authorization are just two of the many aspects that must be carefully taken into account when developing an API that is secure and dependable. The distinction between authentication and authorization in API design […]
Your apps may implement authentication quite easily with the help of Microsoft’s ASP.NET framework. Hardly little has to be done to create a standard web application. You need to do little more than tick a few boxes to proceed. You may not be aware, though, that ASP.NET user authentication may be added to console applications. […]
We developers won’t have access to servers all the time, and without management capabilities, it will be difficut to restart a web application. However, in ASP.NET Core, there is a way for us to programmatically restart our application without requring management capabilities from server admins. IApplicationLifetime There is a IApplicationLifetime interface in ASP.NET Core which can handle […]
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 […]
Somehow what you need is to have IIS keep website alive. You need to keep your ASP.NET website and application pool always running. Regardless of application pool, website, IIS web server, or the entire server restarting. Perhaps the main reasons could be that you need to initialize some code at the global asax at application start up. To fire […]
A distributed cache is a cache shared by multiple app servers, typically maintained as an external service to the app servers that access it. A distributed cache can improve the performance and scalability of an ASP.NET Core app, especially when the app is hosted by a cloud service or a server farm. This article will […]
In previous post, I have explained how to send email using Mailkit in ASP.NET Core. In this post, I will explain about how to send email using Gmail in ASP.NET. The .NET framework has built-in namespace for handling email settings, which is System.Net.Mail namespace. In the following example, I’ll use two classes from the System.Net.Mail namespace: For email settings, […]
.NET’s greatest strength is its long history of supporting developers through each industry paradigm shift, but just because there’s a new way of doing things doesn’t mean the established method goes away. It’s also a source of confusion and frustration for many. Developers spend time trying to merge the past with the present while also […]
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 ASP.NET core, Middleware and Filters are two concepts which are very useful & powerful but often confuses also on which one to choose. Middleware and Filters serves similar purpose and both can be used to achieve the common tasks like exception handling, localizations, authentications etc… but both has certain difference in a way it […]