Previous version of Asp.Net MVC had the concept of local view helpers that could contain HTML too. You see an example of this here. But this feature is removed in Asp.Net Core, but we have a better tool to do it. There might be a lot of other replacement solution for using @helper, but in …
Asp.Net Core 2
Asp.Net Core API: Patch Method Without Using JsonPatchDocument
Some time ago, I needed to implement a mechanism for an API to update an entity without using JsonPatchDocument. The reason was that the user of the API didn’t want to necessarily use JSON to use the patch method. But user might want to use XML, Message Pack or any other format. What I needed …
Asp.Net Core 2 Logging With Serilog And Microsoft SQL Server Sink
In this post, I’m going to describe how we can configure Serilog with Asp.Net Core 2 web and Api projects. I also configure Serilog to work with SQL Server database to store the logging information. Then I’ll write an extension method and use the built-in exception handling middleware to log exceptions in production environments. What …
Policy-based Authorization Using Asp.Net Core 2 And IdentityServer4
In my previous post, I’ve discussed how we can implement policy-based authorization to secure our API using JWT. But that wasn’t what I end-up using in production. Partly because the built-in mechanism of Asp.Net Core with JWT is not as powerful as IdentityServer4. Also I needed the single sign-on feature of IdentityServer4. There are two …