In this post I want to discuss a fantastic open source project called allReady that I highly encourage all ASP.NET developers to check out. I want to share my early experience with allReady and how I got started with contributing to an open source project for the first time. What is allReady? allReady is project […]
How to Send Emails in ASP.NET Core 1.0
ASP.NET Core 1.0 is a reboot of the ASP.NET framework which can target the traditional full .NET framework or the new .NET Core framework. Together ASP.NET Core and .NET Core have been designed to work cross platform and have a lighter, faster footprint compared to the current full .NET framework. Many of the .NET Core APIs are the […]
ASP.NET Core Identity Token Providers – Under the Hood Part 2: Introducing Token Providers
Next up for my series on ASP.NET Core Identity I was interested in how the Identity library provides a way to create tokens which validate actions such as when a user first registers and we need to confirm their email address. This post took a lot longer to write than I expected it to as […]
ASP.NET Identity Core 1.0.0 (Under the Hood) Part 1. Where did my salt column go?
Let me prefix this post / series of blog posts with two important notes. I am not a security expert. This series of posts records my own dive into the ASP.NET Identity Core code, publicly available on GitHub which I’ve done for my own self-interest to try and understand how it works and what is […]
Introducing My Blog
I’ve been thinking about creating a blog on and off for a year or so. I like the idea of sharing what I learn and if nothing else it gives me somewhere to write stuff down that I might later need. I’ve had a blog before and finding the time and discipline to keep it going […]