I’m keeping up my plan (week 2 yay!) to record and share things I’ve learned during the last week. Less from me this week as it’s been fairly hectic and I’ve been feeling a bit unwell. Things I’ve Learned Identity Server 4 As part of my work for Humanitarian Toolbox I’ve been actively investigating Identity […]
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Things I’ve Learnt This Week (29th January)
Whether this will become a regular thing, I’m not sure. But starting this week I’ve been keeping notes on the things I’ve learned, problems I’ve faced and resources that I’ve read, watched or listened to. I try to consume as much information as possible about ASP.NET and development in a continual drive to learn more […]
Updating an ASP.NET Core Site to the December 2016 Release How to upgrade a site on the LTS 1.0.3 version of ASP.NET Core
I run into an issue this week during what should have been a simple ASP.NET Core application update. I wanted to share my experience in case others run into similar problems. Also, I’m sure to be back here myself to remember this in the future! On December 13th Microsoft released their second minor patch release for […]
Running a Humanitarian Toolbox Code-A-Thon
I’ve been involved with the Humanitarian Toolbox allReady project for about one year now. I’ve really enjoyed being able to contribute to the cause, while learning plenty along the way. Contributing has made me a better programmer and exposed me to new libraries and techniques which I am already benefiting from in my day job and […]
Custom ModelBinding in ASP.NET MVC Core How to HTML Encode Strings
In a previous post I showed how we could automatically HTML encode data when deserialising it from a JSON request body. In my case this was to meet some specific security requirements we had for an ASP.NET Core API we were building. This time around I will discuss a similar requirement which stated that we should […]