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Base64 URL encoding using C#

Base64 is an encoding scheme that allows binary data to be converted to text and back again. It is useful in a wide variety of scenarios and makes it easier to transfer and store data in many cases. This is especially true in a web context where everything tends to be based on text content…

Chrome Developer Tools: Speed up changes to your web app front-end with Workspaces

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Most front-end web developers are aware of the developer tools that are built into modern web browsers such as Google Chrome. Many of these developers also use some of the available features to help debug their applications. However, in my experience, not many developers have put in the effort required to learn the full extent…

Learning the Kusto Query Language (KQL) with Application Insights Logs

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Application Insights is a powerful Azure feature for monitoring web applications. It collects a wide range of useful data that you can analyse either in real-time or by executing queries against logs at a later point in time. The logs that are stored by Application Insights enable you to see how your web requests are…

IIS Publish Error: Could not verify the server’s certificate

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When publishing a website to IIS (Internet Information Services), it’s not uncommon to encounter errors from time to time. If you’re publishing an intranet application there are a number of errors that are more likely to crop up. In this post, I explain how to resolve a specific publish error relating to the server certificate….

How to create and load an IdentityServer signing certificate for Azure

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IdentityServer is the de-facto security token service for ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core web applications and it is hugely popular within the .NET community. One of the most important security requirements to consider when setting up IdentityServer is the creation of a key (typically an X.509 certificate) which is used to cryptographically sign and validate tokens…

Hardening your IIS web server configuration with IIS Crypto

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When setting up a web server it can be difficult to know what security measures need to be put in place. There are lots of things to think about such as which permissions to apply, which ports to open and which security protocols to enable. Luckily, if you are using IIS, there is a tool…

Stepping up the security of ASP.NET Core web apps with security headers

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Now, more than ever before, employing security best practices from the start is an absolute must when developing modern web applications. The threat landscape has evolved continuously over the last number of years, however, so have the protection mechanisms which we as software developers can avail of to guard our applications against attackers. In this…

Getting up to speed with Azure Cache for Redis

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If you’re looking for a caching solution to help speed up a web application and Azure is your cloud platform of choice, it makes sense to use Azure Cache for Redis. Azure Cache for Redis is a secure, scalable, and reliable cloud-hosted caching solution. It is based on the very popular open-source Redis database cache…

Recording custom telemetry with Azure Application Insights

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Azure Application Insights is a powerful monitoring feature within the Azure cloud platform that can provide you with some pretty amazing insights into your web applications. By default, Application Insights captures a plethora of highly useful data points regarding both performance and user behaviour. The analysis of these metrics can assist you with speeding up…

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

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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…

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Base64 URL encoding using C#

Chrome Developer Tools: Speed up changes to your web app front-end with Workspaces

Learning the Kusto Query Language (KQL) with Application Insights Logs

IIS Publish Error: Could not verify the server’s certificate

How to create and load an IdentityServer signing certificate for Azure

Hardening your IIS web server configuration with IIS Crypto

Stepping up the security of ASP.NET Core web apps with security headers

Getting up to speed with Azure Cache for Redis

Recording custom telemetry with Azure Application Insights

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

How to create a reusable Blazor Tooltip component with CSS anchor positioning

How to create and read encrypted zip files with C#

Validating and Sanitising filenames in a Blazor WebAssembly app