July 2020 - Jonathan Crozier

Why your ASP.NET Core views are not updating at runtime

If you have experience with ASP.NET but have only recently started building web applications with ASP.NET Core, you may have noticed that some of the features you are used to having during development, appear to be missing. One of the first things you are likely to notice when you start off with a new ASP.NET…

How to configure your ASP.NET Web Apps and APIs to require HTTPS

InSecurity

For any application which is hosted on the web, it is essential that security is built in from the start. Enabling your web application to serve secure traffic over HTTPS and enforcing this policy is one of the first things that you should implement and this is just as important for web apps as it…

Leveraging the DPAPI to encrypt sensitive configuration settings

InSecurity

It is very common that an application will need to store settings in a configuration file and then later retrieve the value of those settings. Quite often, one or more of these settings will be sensitive in nature; such as API keys, database connection strings, or perhaps mail server passwords. Protecting sensitive data is a…

Month: July 2020

Why your ASP.NET Core views are not updating at runtime

How to configure your ASP.NET Web Apps and APIs to require HTTPS

Leveraging the DPAPI to encrypt sensitive configuration settings

Operating on data via a SQL Server Stored Procedure efficiently with Table-Valued Parameters using C#

Enable ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation for Blazor WebAssembly

Formatting JSON with proper indentation using PowerShell