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Upload Files Using jQuery Ajax and JavaScript Interop in Blazor |
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Uploading files from client machine to the server is one of the fundamental operations in web applications. In ASP.NET Core MVC applications you can accomplish this task easily using HTML5 file input field and server side logic. However, Blazor doesn't have any built-in facility (so far) for uploading files. You either need to use some third-party solution or device your own technique to accomplish the task. |
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Posted On : 30 Sep 2019 |
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ASP.NET Core 3.0 - Ten features beginners should know |
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If you are tracking the progress of ASP.NET Core, you are probably aware that .NET Core 3 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 are being released at .NET Conf 2019. There are many exciting feature additions and improvements to the latest version of ASP.NET Core. You might have already stumbled upon the prominent ones. In this article I am enumerating over ten features / improvements for beginners that are worth noting. My aim is to quickly mention them here so that you can explore them in more detail by visiting Microsoft's official channels such as product documentation and Channel 9. |
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Posted On : 23 Sep 2019 |
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Utilize new data provider for SQL Server in ASP.NET Core apps |
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If you are developing database centric web applications for quite some time you have probably used SQL Server data provider a.k.a. System.Data.SqlClient. There are two code bases of SQL Server data provider - one that comes with .NET Framework and another that comes with .NET Core. Now Microsoft has developed a new data provider for SQL Server that is available in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient package. |
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Posted On : 16 Sep 2019 |
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Change Default Location of Views and Razor Pages in ASP.NET Core |
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ASP.NET Core MVC web applications typically store view files under Views folder and Razor Pages are stored under Pages folder. Although this default location is what you want in most of the applications, at times you may want to store views and pages in some different folder. To that end this short article shows how to accomplish just that. |
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Posted On : 09 Sep 2019 |
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Use Azure Cache for Redis in ASP.NET Core |
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Many ASP.NET Core application resort to caching for performance improvement reasons. I have discussed a few caching techniques in this, this, and this article. Additionally developers also use Azure Cache for Redis. It's a fully managed, high-performance in-memory caching service that you can utilize in your ASP.NET Core web applications. This article shows how. |
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Posted On : 02 Sep 2019 |
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Switch-less code : An Example in ASP.NET Core |
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It is common in ASP.NET Core application to store one or more configuration options in appsettings.json. These options are then read inside MVC controllers or Razor Pages page models. Depending on a particular configuration setting you want to execute certain piece of processing. Although it sounds quite simple and straightforward beginners often end up doing this in a not-so-good way. To that end this article discusses a possible approach that is more flexible and helps you reduce the amount of future changes. |
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Posted On : 26 Aug 2019 |
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Authorize users with Azure Active Directory in ASP.NET Core |
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In the previous article we discussed how to integrate Azure AD authentication in an ASP.NET Core web application. Continuing from where we left, this article shows how to authorize users based on their AD groups. First of all you need to create required groups in Azure AD and then assign one or more groups to a user account. So, open the Azure AD that you used last time and locate the Groups options as shown below.
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Posted On : 19 Aug 2019 |
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Authenticate users with Azure Active Directory in ASP.NET Core |
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ASP.NET Core web applications often need to authenticate users accessing the application. There are many authentication schemes you can use to accomplish this task. One of them is authenticating using Azure Active Directive (Azure AD). ASP.NET Core project templates provide an easy way to integrate Azure AD authentication in an application. However, there are a few steps you need to perform before going ahead with the integration process. To that end this article explains what those steps are and how to complete the integration. |
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Posted On : 12 Aug 2019 |
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Build your first Blazor client-side application |
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In the previous article you learned to build your first Blazor server-side application. In this article you will develop the same data entry form using Blazor client-side application. Blazor client-side applications use WebAssembly (Wasm) to run. A WebAssembly capable browser downloads the Blazor application on the client-side and then executes it within the boundaries of the browser. |
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Posted On : 22 Jul 2019 |
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Build your first Blazor server-side application |
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If you are tracking the progress of ASP.NET Core 3, you are probably aware that Blazor is getting a lot of attention and feature improvements. If you haven't developed Blazor applications yet it's worthwhile to take a quick look at the overall development process. To that end this article discusses a simple database update page build using server-side Blazor. |
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Posted On : 15 Jul 2019 |
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